Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Cryptography (Cryptology)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham 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 61 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.82% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 - £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - £617
75th Percentile - - £626
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £538 £475
% change year-on-year +11.63% +13.16% -40.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 556 589 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 90.85% 83.07% 83.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 383 445
10th Percentile £203 £200 £272
25th Percentile £370 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £663 £750 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 9 25
10th Percentile - £21.10 £12.98
25th Percentile £12.62 £25.56 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% +66.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.80 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in Birmingham

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Liquibase
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) GCP DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Data Encryption
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Go
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft