Cryptography Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cryptography (Cryptology)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cryptography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.11% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £650
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 776 603 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.22% 84.57% 83.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 360 471
10th Percentile £192 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £355 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £523 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £627 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 28 51
10th Percentile £16.16 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +4.38% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.11 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cryptography.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Cryptography
England

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Ethereum
1 1 (100.00%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (100.00%) R3 Corda
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Identity
1 1 (100.00%) KYC