Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Cybersecurity
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 2.52% - 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% - 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.00%
75th Percentile £535 - £588
90th Percentile £536 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £447 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

Cybersecurity 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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 224 111 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.12% 96.52% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 90 75
10th Percentile £308 £305 £337
25th Percentile £363 £356 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £391 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -19.90% +21.12%
75th Percentile £488 £450 £532
90th Percentile £575 £575 £567
Northamptonshire median daily rate £438 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.75 -
Median hourly rate - £14.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -
75th Percentile - £15.25 -
90th Percentile - - £35.75
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £25.50 £14.50 £28.64
% change year-on-year +75.86% -49.37% +15.33%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Northampton

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
1 3 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Telephony Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Telephony Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (50.00%) OpenID
1 3 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Runbook
1 5 (83.33%) SDLC
1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Data Security
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (50.00%) OWASP
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) Use Case
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) GDPR
1 5 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (83.33%) PCI DSS
2 3 (50.00%) GRC
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk