Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Security Engineer
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Northampton is £395, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.71% - 2.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% - 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £367 - £473
25th Percentile £374 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - £525
75th Percentile £414 - £538
90th Percentile £419 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £395 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +31.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 273 187 112
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.15% 91.67% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 149 88
10th Percentile £275 £355 £210
25th Percentile £349 £373 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £448 £519 £534
90th Percentile £500 £578 £579
Northamptonshire median daily rate £393 £425 £489
% change year-on-year -7.53% -13.09% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.33%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £12.22 £13.18
% change year-on-year +75.04% -7.25% -45.25%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Northampton

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Northampton.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Northampton

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, Security Engineer 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 Northampton region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OpenID
2 1 (50.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Tenable
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager

Security Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (50.00%) Tenable