Java Architect Contract Job Trends in Brentwood

Java Architect
Essex > Brentwood

The median Java Architect daily rate in Brentwood is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Brentwood 16.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Essex median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Brentwood

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Brentwood. 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 Brentwood with a recognized job title 12 9 35
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 81.82% 97.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 16
10th Percentile - £300 £275
25th Percentile £300 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.67% +212.50%
75th Percentile £575 £419 £438
90th Percentile £600 £453 £519
Essex median daily rate £415 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +3.75% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £12.86
Median % change year-on-year - - -70.15%
Essex median hourly rate £22.04 £32.50 £37.98
% change year-on-year -32.19% -14.43% -4.15%

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentwood

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

Java Architect job vacancy trend in Brentwood

Java Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brentwood

For the 6 months to 10 April 2026, Java 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 Brentwood region featuring Java Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD

Java Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brentwood 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
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 Architecture
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