Checkmarx Contract Job Trends in Essex

Checkmarx
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring knowledge or experience of Checkmarx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Checkmarx over the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Checkmarx.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Checkmarx 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.27% 2.33% -
As % of the Vendors category 5.45% 4.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £501 £318 -
25th Percentile £503 £319 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £320 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.53% - -
75th Percentile £515 £321 -
90th Percentile - £321 -
East of England median daily rate £510 £320 -
% change year-on-year +59.53% - -

All Vendors
Essex

Checkmarx falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 55 41 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 41.67% 47.67% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 55
10th Percentile £185 £186 £186
25th Percentile £300 £259 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £315 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -30.00% -5.51%
75th Percentile £481 £328 £597
90th Percentile £515 £600 £650
East of England median daily rate £490 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +0.70% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 16
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.36 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.63 £12.68
Median hourly rate £16.50 £22.42 £30.66
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% -26.86% -24.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £26.21 £53.25
90th Percentile £59.00 £28.48 £57.78
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £30.39 £21.50
% change year-on-year -33.89% +41.35% -2.27%

Checkmarx
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Checkmarx job vacancy trend in Essex

Checkmarx
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Checkmarx.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Checkmarx

Checkmarx
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 Checkmarx within the Essex region over the 6 months to 14 March 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 +2 3 £510 +58.69% 1
Brentwood - 1 £500 -
Checkmarx
East of England

Checkmarx
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 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Backend Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google