Cryptography Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 433 566
Rank change year-on-year +157 +133 -141
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 74 35 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 15 32
10th Percentile £500 £424 £398
25th Percentile £613 £473 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £669 £719 £650
90th Percentile £775 £810 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £617 £600
% change year-on-year +5.35% +2.83% +24.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +11.11% +26.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Cryptography
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cryptography trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cryptography.

Cryptography daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cryptography over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Cryptography daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cryptography.

Cryptography hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.70%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 44 (59.46%) Azure
2 43 (58.11%) AWS
3 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.70%) GCP
3 2 (2.70%) GitHub
3 2 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.35%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.35%) IaaS
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.35%) PaaS
4 1 (1.35%) SaaS
4 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (50.00%) SSL
2 13 (17.57%) Network Security
3 3 (4.05%) Firewall
3 3 (4.05%) VPN
4 2 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.35%) 4G
5 1 (1.35%) 5G
5 1 (1.35%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.35%) NFC
5 1 (1.35%) PPP
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.70%) Git
2 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.35%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.35%) GoogleTest
3 1 (1.35%) JIRA
3 1 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.35%) TestRail
3 1 (1.35%) Valgrind
General
1 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.41%) Automotive
3 4 (5.41%) Electronics
3 4 (5.41%) Finance
4 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.70%) Multimedia
4 2 (2.70%) Retail
4 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.35%) Banking
5 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.35%) Military
5 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (71.62%) Architect
2 11 (14.86%) Security Architect
3 7 (9.46%) Security Engineer
4 5 (6.76%) Cryptography Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Blockchain Architect
5 4 (5.41%) Blockchain Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Senior
6 3 (4.05%) Developer
6 3 (4.05%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Blockchain Developer
7 2 (2.70%) Consultant
7 2 (2.70%) Network Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (1.35%) IT Engineer
8 1 (1.35%) Lead
8 1 (1.35%) Network Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.35%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (48.65%) Web Services
2 5 (6.76%) Smart Contracts
3 2 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (1.35%) .NET
4 1 (1.35%) Django
4 1 (1.35%) JSON
4 1 (1.35%) JWT
4 1 (1.35%) LDAP
4 1 (1.35%) OAuth
4 1 (1.35%) OpenID
4 1 (1.35%) SAML
4 1 (1.35%) Sphinx
4 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (55.41%) PKI
2 7 (9.46%) Blockchain
3 5 (6.76%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.05%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.35%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.35%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.57%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Windows
3 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.35%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.65%) Key Management
2 14 (18.92%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (14.86%) Computer Science
3 11 (14.86%) Information Security
3 11 (14.86%) Penetration Testing
4 10 (13.51%) Risk Management
4 10 (13.51%) Security Architecture
5 8 (10.81%) DevOps
6 7 (9.46%) Agile
6 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (9.46%) Project Delivery
6 7 (9.46%) Service Delivery
7 6 (8.11%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (8.11%) Software Engineering
8 5 (6.76%) Business Strategy
8 5 (6.76%) Fintech
8 5 (6.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (5.41%) Dynamic Code Analysis
9 4 (5.41%) Static Code Analysis
9 4 (5.41%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.16%) Python
2 7 (9.46%) Java
3 6 (8.11%) C++
4 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.05%) Clojure
6 2 (2.70%) C#
7 1 (1.35%) Bash
7 1 (1.35%) PHP
7 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.35%) Ruby
7 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (63.51%) Security Cleared
2 42 (56.76%) Degree
3 31 (41.89%) SC Cleared
4 28 (37.84%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.41%) CISM
6 4 (5.41%) CISSP
7 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.05%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.70%) CEH
8 2 (2.70%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.70%) CSSLP
9 1 (1.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (14.86%) NIST
3 5 (6.76%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.41%) Automotive SPICE
4 4 (5.41%) AUTOSAR
5 3 (4.05%) GDPR
6 2 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (2.70%) COBIT
6 2 (2.70%) ISO 22301
7 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (1.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (1.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.70%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Squid
3 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Terraform
2 2 (2.70%) HAProxy
2 2 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.70%) Nessus
3 1 (1.35%) Ansible
3 1 (1.35%) Check_MK
3 1 (1.35%) Grafana
3 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (6.76%) CyberArk
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.05%) Cisco
2 3 (4.05%) Fortinet
2 3 (4.05%) Google
3 2 (2.70%) Centrify
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle
3 2 (2.70%) Palo Alto
3 2 (2.70%) Qualys
4 1 (1.35%) Juniper
4 1 (1.35%) Okta
4 1 (1.35%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.35%) Splunk
4 1 (1.35%) VMware