Software Architecture Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Software Architecture
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Software Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 5.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Essex median daily rate £600 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basildon

Software Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35 18 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 94.59% 90.00% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 15
10th Percentile £341 £315 £102
25th Percentile £500 £320 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +30.63% -30.43% +13.86%
75th Percentile £600 £487 £600
90th Percentile - £488 £645
Essex median daily rate £400 £400 £475
% change year-on-year - -15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 25
10th Percentile £12.55 £32.00 £52.50
25th Percentile £31.90 £35.00 £54.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -50.00% +27.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £45.00 -
90th Percentile £67.00 £48.00 -
Essex median hourly rate £19.75 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -43.57% -36.36% +27.91%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Software Architecture job vacancy trend in Basildon

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Software Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Software Architecture

Software Architecture
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (100.00%) GCP Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Java Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Java Software Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (100.00%) Google