Cryptography Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 401 436
Rank change year-on-year +88 +35 -82
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 75 52 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.22% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 33 48
10th Percentile £468 £433 £410
25th Percentile £613 £525 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £610 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +10.91% +18.92%
75th Percentile £669 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £808 £783
UK median daily rate £650 £617 £600
% change year-on-year +5.35% +2.83% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - - £50.31
25th Percentile - £59.73 £53.97
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.18% +20.50%
75th Percentile - £72.98 £69.12
90th Percentile - - £70.46
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +18.64% +16.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +67 58 £625 - 5
North West - 12 £669 - 4
North of England - 12 £669 - 6
South West -12 3 £690 +12.65% 15
Midlands +21 1 £750 +30.43% 2
West Midlands +12 1 £750 +30.43% 1
East of England +8 1 - - 7
Cryptography
UK

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 50 (66.67%) AWS
2 48 (64.00%) Azure
3 4 (5.33%) IaaS
3 4 (5.33%) PaaS
3 4 (5.33%) SaaS
4 3 (4.00%) Azure API Management
4 3 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 43 (57.33%) SSL
2 13 (17.33%) Network Security
3 6 (8.00%) Firewall
4 4 (5.33%) VPN
5 1 (1.33%) 4G
5 1 (1.33%) 5G
5 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.33%) NFC
5 1 (1.33%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.33%) JIRA
1 4 (5.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) GoogleTest
2 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.33%) TestRail
2 1 (1.33%) Valgrind
General
1 7 (9.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (5.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.00%) Finance
4 2 (2.67%) Banking
4 2 (2.67%) Military
5 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.33%) Electronics
5 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (72.00%) Architect
2 11 (14.67%) Security Architect
3 4 (5.33%) Lead
4 3 (4.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (4.00%) Senior
5 2 (2.67%) Consultant
5 2 (2.67%) Senior Tester
5 2 (2.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (2.67%) Test Engineer
5 2 (2.67%) Tester
6 1 (1.33%) Analyst
6 1 (1.33%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) IT Consultant
6 1 (1.33%) IT Security Consultant
6 1 (1.33%) Security Consultant
6 1 (1.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.33%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (60.00%) Web Services
2 3 (4.00%) .NET
3 2 (2.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.33%) CSS
4 1 (1.33%) HTML
4 1 (1.33%) JSON
4 1 (1.33%) Node.js
4 1 (1.33%) React
4 1 (1.33%) REST
4 1 (1.33%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (1.33%) web3js
4 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (69.33%) PKI
2 5 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.33%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.33%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.33%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (6.67%) Windows
3 2 (2.67%) zOS
4 1 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (64.00%) Key Management
2 16 (21.33%) Security Architecture
3 12 (16.00%) Risk Management
4 11 (14.67%) Information Security
5 10 (13.33%) Business Strategy
5 10 (13.33%) IT Strategy
5 10 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
5 10 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 10 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 10 (13.33%) SIEM
5 10 (13.33%) Technology Strategy
6 9 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (10.67%) Scrum
8 6 (8.00%) Data Protection
9 5 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (6.67%) Scenario Testing
9 5 (6.67%) Test Management
10 4 (5.33%) Cloud Security
10 4 (5.33%) Microservices
10 4 (5.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.33%) C#
1 4 (5.33%) Java
1 4 (5.33%) Python
2 3 (4.00%) PHP
2 3 (4.00%) Ruby
3 1 (1.33%) C++
3 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 63 (84.00%) Security Cleared
2 44 (58.67%) Degree
3 33 (44.00%) SC Cleared
4 32 (42.67%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.33%) CISM
7 1 (1.33%) CISSP
7 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.67%) NIST
2 13 (17.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.67%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.67%) NCSC
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 49 (65.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.00%) Docker
3 3 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.33%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 4 (5.33%) VMware
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.00%) Splunk
3 2 (2.67%) CyberArk
3 2 (2.67%) F5
3 2 (2.67%) Qualys
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco
4 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.33%) Google
4 1 (1.33%) Juniper
4 1 (1.33%) SAP