Cryptography Contracts in England

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 426 536 680
Rank change year-on-year +110 +144 -162
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 111 118 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 78 60
10th Percentile £455 £425 £463
25th Percentile £613 £525 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +36.84%
75th Percentile £700 £715 £750
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £600
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £46.25 - £49.73
25th Percentile £51.88 £59.73 £53.22
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +11.11% +26.00%
75th Percentile £71.88 £72.98 £69.83
90th Percentile £76.75 - £70.58
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +11.11% +26.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,110 45,282 64,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.21% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,055 31,791 45,856
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,587 1,766
10th Percentile £12.95 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.68
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in England.

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cryptography in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
South East +71 59 £625 -3.10% 11
London +81 33 £700 +13.45% 17
North of England +43 12 £669 +27.43% 4
North West - 12 £669 - 1
South West +2 3 £690 +12.65% 13
East of England +15 2 - - 12
Midlands +16 1 £750 +30.43% 2
West Midlands +15 1 £750 +30.43% 1
Cryptography
UK

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.80%) nginx
Business Applications
1 10 (9.01%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 58 (52.25%) AWS
1 58 (52.25%) Azure
2 7 (6.31%) GCP
3 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.60%) Entra ID
3 4 (3.60%) IaaS
3 4 (3.60%) PaaS
3 4 (3.60%) SaaS
4 3 (2.70%) Azure API Management
4 3 (2.70%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (2.70%) Serverless
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (1.80%) GitHub
5 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 42 (37.84%) SSL
2 19 (17.12%) Network Security
3 9 (8.11%) Firewall
4 8 (7.21%) Internet
5 6 (5.41%) VPN
6 3 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.90%) 4G
8 1 (0.90%) 5G
8 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.90%) Intranet
8 1 (0.90%) LAN
8 1 (0.90%) NFC
8 1 (0.90%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.80%) Big Data
1 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Git
1 4 (3.60%) Jenkins
1 4 (3.60%) JIRA
1 4 (3.60%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.90%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.90%) GoogleTest
2 1 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.90%) TestRail
2 1 (0.90%) Valgrind
General
1 14 (12.61%) Finance
1 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
2 11 (9.91%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.60%) Banking
3 4 (3.60%) Financial Institution
3 4 (3.60%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.80%) Military
5 2 (1.80%) Multimedia
5 2 (1.80%) Retail
6 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.90%) Electronics
6 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.90%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 69 (62.16%) Architect
2 15 (13.51%) Security Architect
3 12 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (7.21%) Senior
5 7 (6.31%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Lead
7 3 (2.70%) Consultant
7 3 (2.70%) Developer
7 3 (2.70%) Lead Architect
7 3 (2.70%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.70%) Network Engineer
8 2 (1.80%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (1.80%) Blockchain Developer
8 2 (1.80%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 2 (1.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.80%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (1.80%) Senior Tester
8 2 (1.80%) Software Engineer
8 2 (1.80%) Test Engineer
8 2 (1.80%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (39.64%) Web Services
2 4 (3.60%) Smart Contracts
3 3 (2.70%) .NET
4 2 (1.80%) Kafka
4 2 (1.80%) REST
5 1 (0.90%) CSS
5 1 (0.90%) HTML
5 1 (0.90%) JSON
5 1 (0.90%) JWT
5 1 (0.90%) LDAP
5 1 (0.90%) Node.js
5 1 (0.90%) OAuth
5 1 (0.90%) OpenID
5 1 (0.90%) React
5 1 (0.90%) SAML
5 1 (0.90%) web3js
5 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (51.35%) PKI
2 12 (10.81%) Blockchain
3 6 (5.41%) IoT
4 5 (4.50%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.50%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.50%) Web3
5 4 (3.60%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.70%) CBDC
6 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.90%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.32%) Linux
2 6 (5.41%) Windows
3 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.80%) zOS
4 1 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.90%) CentOS
4 1 (0.90%) Debian
4 1 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (42.34%) Key Management
2 18 (16.22%) Security Architecture
3 17 (15.32%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (14.41%) Information Security
5 15 (13.51%) Penetration Testing
5 15 (13.51%) Risk Management
6 13 (11.71%) SIEM
7 12 (10.81%) DevOps
8 11 (9.91%) Business Strategy
8 11 (9.91%) IT Strategy
8 11 (9.91%) Project Delivery
8 11 (9.91%) Service Delivery
8 11 (9.91%) Technology Strategy
9 10 (9.01%) Security Monitoring
10 9 (8.11%) Fintech
10 9 (8.11%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (7.21%) Scrum
11 8 (7.21%) Threat Modelling
11 8 (7.21%) Use Case
11 8 (7.21%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.21%) Python
2 7 (6.31%) Java
3 4 (3.60%) C#
3 4 (3.60%) C++
4 3 (2.70%) PHP
4 3 (2.70%) Ruby
5 1 (0.90%) Bash
5 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 77 (69.37%) Security Cleared
2 49 (44.14%) Degree
3 48 (43.24%) SC Cleared
4 36 (32.43%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.50%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.60%) CISM
6 4 (3.60%) CISSP
7 3 (2.70%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.80%) CEH
8 2 (1.80%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.80%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.90%) CISA
9 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (17.12%) NIST
3 5 (4.50%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.70%) NCSC
5 2 (1.80%) COBIT
5 2 (1.80%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.80%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.90%) NIST 800
System Software
1 50 (45.05%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.41%) Docker
3 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.80%) Squid
6 1 (0.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.50%) Terraform
3 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.80%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.80%) Nessus
5 1 (0.90%) Ansible
5 1 (0.90%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.90%) Grafana
5 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (5.41%) CyberArk
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.60%) Google
2 4 (3.60%) Qualys
2 4 (3.60%) VMware
3 3 (2.70%) Centrify
3 3 (2.70%) Cisco
3 3 (2.70%) Fortinet
3 3 (2.70%) Splunk
4 2 (1.80%) Databricks
4 2 (1.80%) F5
4 2 (1.80%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.90%) Juniper
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle
5 1 (0.90%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.90%) SAP