Threat Detection Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Threat Detection
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Threat Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Detection 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £375 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

Threat Detection 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 297 232 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 96.12% 88.89% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 176 141
10th Percentile £297 £347 £213
25th Percentile £350 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £425 £489
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -13.09% +2.95%
75th Percentile £450 £525 £544
90th Percentile £539 £600 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £445 £489
% change year-on-year -6.74% -9.00% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile - - £12.64
25th Percentile - £23.10 £16.46
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £43.02
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -43.74% +32.35%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.56 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +28.57%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Threat Detection job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Threat Detection
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 Threat Detection within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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 - 2 £375 - 4
Threat Detection
East Midlands

Threat Detection
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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable