Security Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Security Solution Architect
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Security Solution Architect daily rate in Northamptonshire is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Solutions Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.36% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £438 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 265 129 166
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 86.58% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 93 124
10th Percentile £313 £307 £209
25th Percentile £362 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £400 £452
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% -11.41% +10.12%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £521
90th Percentile £550 £575 £573
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 19
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £23.10 £11.52
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +72.86% -20.99%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £24.25
90th Percentile - - £36.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.89 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.49% +26.98% +4.24%

Security Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Security Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Security Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Solutions Architect job vacancies in Northamptonshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Solutions Architect job vacancies in Northamptonshire

Security Solutions Architect
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 Solutions Architect within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 30 January 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 - 1 £438 -
Security Solutions Architect
East Midlands

Security Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Security Solutions Architect 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 Northamptonshire region featuring Security Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security

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