Lead Architect Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Lead Architect
Essex > Basildon

The median Lead Architect daily rate in Basildon is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 1.43% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £463 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Basildon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basildon. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Basildon with a recognized job title 66 24 32
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 100.00% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 9
10th Percentile £350 £181 £277
25th Percentile £375 £381 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £429 £320
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +33.98% -28.89%
75th Percentile £588 £508 £400
90th Percentile £600 £684 £410
Essex median daily rate £500 £400 £335
% change year-on-year +25.00% +19.40% -33.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 10
10th Percentile £28.25 £46.70 £28.50
25th Percentile £57.50 £62.00 £29.17
Median hourly rate £73.00 £73.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year - +0.34% +40.92%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £77.75
Essex median hourly rate £18.25 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -51.33% -6.25% -27.93%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Lead Architect job vacancy trend in Basildon

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon

For the 6 months to 9 October 2026, Lead Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Basildon region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality