Cryptography Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Cryptography (Cryptology)
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Cryptography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 18 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 1.20% 0.79% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £588 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £625 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +31.58% -24.00% -6.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66 116 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 79.52% 91.34% 80.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 42
10th Percentile £217 £241 £363
25th Percentile £350 £336 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £581 £494 £575
90th Percentile £631 £656 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 1
10th Percentile - £12.86 -
25th Percentile £61.87 £13.92 £51.25
Median hourly rate £63.73 £19.36 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +229.23% -63.13% +191.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £28.59 £53.75
90th Percentile - £31.73 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.41 £57.35
% change year-on-year +156.89% -62.67% +14.70%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 8 August 2026. 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
Brighton - 1 £625 - 1
Cryptography
South East

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Development
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA