Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cryptography skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cryptography over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 674 630 783
Rank change year-on-year -44 +153 -25
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 223 367 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.37% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 186 189 135
10th Percentile £44,125 £38,345 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £44,652 £54,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £64,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -0.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £81,928 £88,125
90th Percentile £121,250 £95,458 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £59,263 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -1.23% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cryptography.

Salary trend for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cryptography over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 215 £72,500 +11.54% 69
London +110 121 £90,000 +20.00% 18
UK excluding London -107 93 £65,000 +9.68% 46
Work from Home -27 82 £70,000 +17.60% 26
East of England +34 31 £60,000 -10.45% 17
North of England -40 25 £70,000 +64.71% 3
Yorkshire +14 24 £70,000 +64.71% 2
South East +22 13 £65,000 -45.83% 11
South West -10 10 £59,000 -0.88% 14
Midlands -23 8 £67,500 +63.64% 4
East Midlands -9 6 £70,502 +69.24% 1
Scotland -67 6 £75,000 +26.00%
West Midlands -10 2 £67,500 +66.15% 3
North West 0 1 £60,000 +0.80% 1

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (8.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (7.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.79%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.79%) Hyperledger
3 4 (1.79%) OpenZeppelin
4 3 (1.35%) IIS
Applications
1 26 (11.66%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 63 (28.25%) Azure
2 38 (17.04%) AWS
3 24 (10.76%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (8.52%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (7.62%) GCP
6 15 (6.73%) Azure Sentinel
7 14 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (4.04%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.69%) IaaS
9 6 (2.69%) PaaS
9 6 (2.69%) SaaS
10 1 (0.45%) GitHub
10 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.45%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 81 (36.32%) Firewall
2 43 (19.28%) Network Security
3 38 (17.04%) TCP/IP
4 34 (15.25%) DNS
5 20 (8.97%) Intrusion Detection
6 16 (7.17%) DHCP
6 16 (7.17%) LAN
6 16 (7.17%) WAN
6 16 (7.17%) Wireshark
7 15 (6.73%) VPN
8 7 (3.14%) Internet
9 4 (1.79%) IPFS
9 4 (1.79%) Wireless
9 4 (1.79%) Wireless Security
10 3 (1.35%) 4G
10 3 (1.35%) SSL
11 2 (0.90%) HTTP
11 2 (0.90%) IPv4
12 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.04%) Power BI
2 3 (1.35%) Big Data
2 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.90%) Redis
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.48%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.69%) JIRA
3 5 (2.24%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.79%) Git
4 4 (1.79%) Hardhat
4 4 (1.79%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Continuum
5 2 (0.90%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
General
1 45 (20.18%) Finance
2 32 (14.35%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.56%) Aerospace
4 25 (11.21%) Law
5 16 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.48%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.04%) Banking
7 9 (4.04%) Games
8 8 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Legal
10 3 (1.35%) Retail
10 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing
11 2 (0.90%) Military
11 2 (0.90%) Police
12 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (20.63%) Architect
2 41 (18.39%) Security Engineer
3 36 (16.14%) Lead
4 29 (13.00%) Security Architect
5 26 (11.66%) Team Leader
5 26 (11.66%) Technical Architect
6 20 (8.97%) Network Specialist
6 20 (8.97%) Senior
7 17 (7.62%) Security Technical Architect
8 15 (6.73%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 13 (5.83%) Analyst
9 13 (5.83%) Network Operations Specialist
10 12 (5.38%) Consultant
10 12 (5.38%) Cryptography Engineer
10 12 (5.38%) Security Consultant
11 11 (4.93%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 11 (4.93%) Information Security Engineer
11 11 (4.93%) Senior Security Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) IT Support
12 8 (3.59%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.17%) .NET
2 12 (5.38%) web3js
3 11 (4.93%) Web Services
4 9 (4.04%) Smart Contracts
5 8 (3.59%) Middleware
5 8 (3.59%) OAuth
6 7 (3.14%) PyTorch
6 7 (3.14%) TensorFlow
7 6 (2.69%) OpenID
8 5 (2.24%) ERC20
8 5 (2.24%) Truffle
9 4 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (1.79%) Node.js
9 4 (1.79%) RESTful
9 4 (1.79%) Spring
9 4 (1.79%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.90%) HTML
10 2 (0.90%) HTML5
10 2 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (27.35%) PKI
2 30 (13.45%) Management Information System
3 27 (12.11%) Blockchain
4 20 (8.97%) Security Operations Centre
5 17 (7.62%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (7.17%) Replication
7 14 (6.28%) Security Posture
8 11 (4.93%) Algorithms
8 11 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (4.93%) Web3
9 9 (4.04%) Virtual Team
10 8 (3.59%) Cyberattack
11 7 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (2.69%) Data Centre
12 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
12 6 (2.69%) Operational Technology
13 5 (2.24%) Industry 4.0
13 5 (2.24%) IoT
13 5 (2.24%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 53 (23.77%) Windows
2 36 (16.14%) Linux
3 32 (14.35%) Android
3 32 (14.35%) Apple iOS
4 17 (7.62%) Windows Server
5 16 (7.17%) Windows 10
5 16 (7.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 9 (4.04%) Kali Linux
7 5 (2.24%) Unix
8 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.90%) Debian
9 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (60.54%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (26.01%) SIEM
3 57 (25.56%) Information Security
4 45 (20.18%) Vulnerability Management
5 44 (19.73%) Incident Response
6 40 (17.94%) Data Loss Prevention
7 38 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (16.14%) Software Engineering
9 35 (15.70%) ITIL
9 35 (15.70%) Kalman Filter
10 31 (13.90%) DevOps
11 28 (12.56%) Cloud Security
12 27 (12.11%) Identity Management
13 26 (11.66%) Computer Science
13 26 (11.66%) Security Operations
14 25 (11.21%) Identity Access Management
15 24 (10.76%) Security Architecture
15 24 (10.76%) Security Management
16 23 (10.31%) Agile
17 22 (9.87%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (25.11%) Python
2 39 (17.49%) PowerShell
3 23 (10.31%) C
4 16 (7.17%) Rust
5 12 (5.38%) Java
6 11 (4.93%) Bash
6 11 (4.93%) C++
7 9 (4.04%) Go
8 8 (3.59%) Solidity
9 6 (2.69%) C#
9 6 (2.69%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.24%) Scala
11 4 (1.79%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.79%) SQL
11 4 (1.79%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.90%) Dart
12 2 (0.90%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.90%) PHP
12 2 (0.90%) Ruby
12 2 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (32.29%) Degree
2 47 (21.08%) CISSP
3 40 (17.94%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (15.70%) Security Cleared
5 30 (13.45%) CEH
6 29 (13.00%) Master's Degree
7 23 (10.31%) CISM
7 23 (10.31%) CREST Certified
8 19 (8.52%) CCSP
9 18 (8.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 18 (8.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (7.62%) CCDA
10 17 (7.62%) CCDP
10 17 (7.62%) DV Cleared
11 16 (7.17%) MCSA
11 16 (7.17%) SSCP
12 14 (6.28%) SANS
13 12 (5.38%) SC Cleared
14 10 (4.48%) GIAC
14 10 (4.48%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (19.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (13.45%) NIST
3 28 (12.56%) PCI DSS
4 16 (7.17%) COBIT
5 13 (5.83%) Accessibility
6 10 (4.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 7 (3.14%) GDPR
7 7 (3.14%) NCSC
8 5 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.79%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 19 (8.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (8.07%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.90%) Docker
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (8.07%) Nmap
2 14 (6.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.48%) Ansible
4 8 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (3.14%) CASB
6 5 (2.24%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.35%) Suricata
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.90%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.45%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 52 (23.32%) Cisco
2 48 (21.52%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.52%) VMware
4 18 (8.07%) Splunk
5 16 (7.17%) Bloomberg
5 16 (7.17%) FactSet
5 16 (7.17%) MobileIron
5 16 (7.17%) Refinitiv
6 14 (6.28%) Qualys
6 14 (6.28%) Rapid7
6 14 (6.28%) Thycotic
7 13 (5.83%) CheckPoint
8 12 (5.38%) Juniper
8 12 (5.38%) Palo Alto
9 10 (4.48%) Alibaba
9 10 (4.48%) Google
10 9 (4.04%) Blue Coat
10 9 (4.04%) Infoblox
11 8 (3.59%) Riverbed
12 7 (3.14%) Citrix