Cryptography Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cryptography (Cryptology)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Cryptography skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 121 167
Rank change year-on-year +2 +46 +27
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.096% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.10% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £483 £756 £538
25th Percentile £521 £766 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £813 £574
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +41.67% -18.07%
75th Percentile £653 £847 £602
90th Percentile £694 £849 £616
Central London median daily rate £585 £813 £530
% change year-on-year -28.00% +53.30% -18.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,697 1,907 2,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.28% 91.82% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,251 1,981
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% +3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £53.50 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -17.65%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the City of London

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cryptography.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in the City of London

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Smart Meter
1 1 (33.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) COBIT
1 1 (33.33%) COSO
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Thales