Cryptography Contracts in the City of London

Cryptography (Cryptology)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Cryptography skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cryptography over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 170 193
Rank change year-on-year +45 +23 -43
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.091% 0.16% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.18% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £673 £576 -
25th Percentile £688 £597 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £671 £613
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% +9.55% +22.50%
75th Percentile £763 £767 £619
90th Percentile £778 £821 -
Central London median daily rate £725 £671 £613
% change year-on-year +8.05% +9.55% +22.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Cryptography is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,985 3,341 3,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.56% 91.66% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 2,250 2,956
10th Percentile £356 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £809 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 43
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -15.66% +130.88%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.00
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the City of London

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in the City of London

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Blockchain Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python