The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cryptography in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cryptography over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Scotland region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cryptography (Cryptology)
Rank 111 - 113
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 11 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.445% - 0.110%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.812% - 0.787%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
Average daily rate £360 - £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £393 £475
% change year-on-year
-5.73% -17.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +43.83%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
607 441 381
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 24.56% 16.69% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 187 172
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £199 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 35 15
Average hourly rate £15.77 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.34% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.33 £11.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £32.00 £36.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Cryptography
UK

Cryptography
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cryptography across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Scotland Cryptography Jobs Demand Trend

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cryptography across the Scotland region.

Scotland Cryptography Daily Rate Trend

Cryptography
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Renfrewshire - 7 £370 -
Glasgow - 3 £360 -
Cryptography
UK

Cryptography
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Cryptography also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Cryptography.

1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 11 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 10 (90.91%) PowerShell
2 10 (90.91%) Windows 7
2 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (90.91%) Windows XP
2 10 (90.91%) XML Schema
2 10 (90.91%) XML
2 10 (90.91%) VBScript
3 9 (81.82%) MCP
3 9 (81.82%) Taxonomies
3 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
3 9 (81.82%) SharePoint Server
3 9 (81.82%) Document Management
4 8 (72.73%) MS Office
4 8 (72.73%) MS Excel
5 6 (54.55%) SharePoint
5 6 (54.55%) VB.NET
5 6 (54.55%) MCSE
5 6 (54.55%) Migration
5 6 (54.55%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (54.55%) Service Management
5 6 (54.55%) C#
6 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
6 5 (45.45%) Information Security
6 5 (45.45%) CISSP

Cryptography
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Cryptography also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Cryptography. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 10 (90.91%) XML Schema
2 10 (90.91%) XML
3 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 9 (81.82%) SharePoint Server
2 6 (54.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (72.73%) MS Office
1 8 (72.73%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Internet
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Desktop Engineer
1 9 (81.82%) Build Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Senior Build Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Taxonomies
2 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.091%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (90.91%) Windows 7
2 10 (90.91%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 9 (81.82%) Document Management
3 6 (54.55%) Migration
3 6 (54.55%) Service Management
4 5 (45.45%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) PowerShell
1 10 (90.91%) VBScript
2 6 (54.55%) VB.NET
2 6 (54.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (81.82%) MCP
3 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
4 6 (54.55%) MCSE
5 5 (45.45%) CISSP
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft