Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cryptography (Cryptology)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Cryptography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £245 - -
25th Percentile £274 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 - -
75th Percentile £371 - -
90th Percentile £401 - -
Scotland median daily rate £420 £475 £700
% change year-on-year -11.58% -32.14% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 537 574 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.33% 91.84% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 307 493
10th Percentile £224 £229 £205
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £626
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 10
10th Percentile £17.36 £17.32 £13.12
25th Percentile - £21.01 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £64.00 £26.28 £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in Edinburgh

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Information Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Go
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (25.00%) Qualys
3 1 (25.00%) Thales