Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Security Architecture
Northamptonshire > Northampton

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 1.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £445 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £438 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

Security 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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 190 151 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 89.20% 93.79% 94.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 131 120
10th Percentile £333 £256 £355
25th Percentile £390 £322 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £390 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £537 £461 £576
90th Percentile £578 £525 £620
Northamptonshire median daily rate £450 £391 £445
% change year-on-year +15.09% -12.13% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £16.04 -
25th Percentile - £19.48 -
Median hourly rate £17.20 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.59% +52.79% -3.58%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £35.75
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £25.50 £21.39 £14.00
% change year-on-year +19.21% +52.79% -72.55%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in Northampton

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Security Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Security Architecture

Security Architecture
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 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Migration Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 3 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 3 (100.00%) SABSA
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) GRC
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk