Self-Motivation Contract Job Trends in Essex

Self-Motivation
East of England > Essex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in contract job vacancies in Essex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 20 21
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.61% 0.88% 1.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.77% 3.33% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £351 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £353 £538 -
90th Percentile £354 - -
East of England median daily rate £352 £366 £338
% change year-on-year -3.89% +8.52% -32.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.03 - -
Median hourly rate £13.36 - -
75th Percentile £13.68 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £63.00 £12.48 £63.75
% change year-on-year +404.81% -80.42% -1.92%

All Generic Skills
Essex

Self-Motivation falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 104 30 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 27.96% 26.32% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 24 18
10th Percentile £330 £180 £263
25th Percentile £363 £321 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +8.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £525
90th Percentile £575 £662 £641
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 3
10th Percentile £14.25 - £29.00
25th Percentile £16.13 £65.00 £33.13
Median hourly rate £17.50 £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.00% +75.00% +90.48%
75th Percentile £57.38 £75.00 £56.63
90th Percentile £71.00 - £66.60
East of England median hourly rate £63.00 £42.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +48.24% -31.45% +3.33%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Self-Motivation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Self-Motivation job vacancy trend in Essex

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Self-Motivation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Self-Motivation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Self-Motivation within the Essex region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basildon - 3 £352 - 5
Hockley - 2 - - 1
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
Self-Motivation
East of England

Self-Motivation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) npm
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
1 1 (16.67%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Sales Representative
2 1 (16.67%) Angular Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (16.67%) IT Technician
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Technician
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) JWT
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (16.67%) RxJS
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Customer Service
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Business Development
4 2 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (33.33%) Lead Generation
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Change Control
5 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
5 1 (16.67%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft