Cryptography Contracts in Cheshire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Cryptography skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cryptography over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 57 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.17% 0.92% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 1.07% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £740 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.78% - -
North West median daily rate £459 £670 £663
% change year-on-year -31.44% +1.06% +1.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 536 469 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 93.22% 85.90% 90.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 318 295
10th Percentile £313 £311 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £476 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -9.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £537 £576 £587
90th Percentile £639 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 30 31
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.70 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.72 £22.53
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +17.06% +40.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.90 £29.00 £30.27
% change year-on-year +3.10% -4.20% +28.56%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in Cheshire

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in Cheshire

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
Knutsford -20 1 £268 -63.78% 1
Cryptography
North West

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Attestation
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM