Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Cryptography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 11 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 4.91% 1.05% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 1.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £60 - -
East of England median daily rate £60 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £64.80 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Cryptography falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 204 154 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 91.07% 80.63% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 82 83
10th Percentile £198 £213 £305
25th Percentile £450 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £574 £600
90th Percentile £665 £650 £635
East of England median daily rate £508 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +14.82% -11.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 3
10th Percentile £37.50 £46.50 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.38 £54.70 £53.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £59.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.68% +8.00% -3.93%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile - £70.30 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £22.60 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -43.49% +101.92% -5.67%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cryptography relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Cryptography.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Cryptography.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cryptography in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cryptography in Bedfordshire

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 October 2025. 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
Luton 0 11 £60 - 3
Cryptography
East of England

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Confluence
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Ethernet
General
1 9 (81.82%) Electronics
2 7 (63.64%) Games
3 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Aerospace
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Firmware Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) FPGA Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Validation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Algorithms
1 7 (63.64%) FPGA
1 7 (63.64%) PCIe
1 7 (63.64%) Verilog
2 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
3 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Computer Science
1 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
1 7 (63.64%) Physics
1 7 (63.64%) UVM
2 4 (36.36%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (36.36%) Data Management
2 4 (36.36%) PDM
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Security Management
3 2 (18.18%) SysML
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Validation
3 2 (18.18%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) MATLAB
2 7 (63.64%) SystemVerilog
2 7 (63.64%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) Degree
2 7 (63.64%) HNC
2 7 (63.64%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) DO-254
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Firmware
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Actel
1 7 (63.64%) Altera
1 7 (63.64%) Intel
1 7 (63.64%) Microsemi
1 7 (63.64%) Xilinx