Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Security Architecture
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 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 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £445 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £438 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 220 164 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 85.27% 92.13% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 143 155
10th Percentile £340 £260 £310
25th Percentile £393 £326 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £391 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.09% -12.13% +11.25%
75th Percentile £537 £461 £544
90th Percentile £588 £525 £619
East Midlands median daily rate £460 £425 £419
% change year-on-year +8.24% +1.55% -9.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 16
10th Percentile £20.52 £16.81 £10.90
25th Percentile - - £13.23
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% +52.79% -72.55%
75th Percentile - - £44.55
90th Percentile £48.45 £41.56 £54.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £20.20 £17.00
% change year-on-year -11.51% +18.79% -23.63%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Security Architecture
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 Security Architecture within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Northampton - 3 £438 - 3
Security Architecture
East Midlands

Security Architecture
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:

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