Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Cybersecurity
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.50% 0.63% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 0.68% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £406 £113 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £115 £575
Median % change year-on-year +269.57% -80.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £441 £118 £588
90th Percentile £444 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £428 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -14.50% +14.29% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 245 148 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 92.11% 92.50% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 116 111
10th Percentile £313 £307 £263
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £408 £489
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -16.67% +11.14%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £534
90th Percentile £550 £616 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -2.33% -9.47% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 14
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.01
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.52
% change year-on-year -14.40% +2.46% +27.84%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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
Northampton - 3 £415 - 13
Kettering +1 1 £425 +269.57% 4
Cybersecurity
East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) QlikView
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop Developer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Telephony Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Telephony Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Active Listening
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Identity
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft