Cryptography Contracts in England

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 432 537
Rank change year-on-year -3 +105 +141
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 50 110 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.34% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 73 78
10th Percentile £476 £455 £425
25th Percentile £500 £613 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £715
90th Percentile £641 £775 £799
UK median daily rate £580 £633 £625
% change year-on-year -8.30% +1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 -
25th Percentile £56.00 £51.88 £59.73
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +17.65%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £72.98
90th Percentile £89.80 £76.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cryptography in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +19 14 £550 -21.43% 65
South East -1 11 £538 -14.00% 37
South West +52 9 £585 -15.22% 19
East of England +37 9 - - 29
North of England +10 3 £650 -2.84% 34
Yorkshire - 2 - - 11
Midlands +22 1 £625 -16.67% 18
West Midlands +14 1 £625 -16.67% 11
North West +6 1 £650 -2.84% 18
Cryptography
UK

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (10.00%) Confluence
1 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) TPMS
3 1 (2.00%) Ethereum
3 1 (2.00%) Hyperledger
3 1 (2.00%) MetaMask
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) AWS
1 14 (28.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.00%) IaaS
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (38.00%) SSL
2 6 (12.00%) HTTPS
2 6 (12.00%) SSH
3 3 (6.00%) Ethernet
4 2 (4.00%) Firewall
4 2 (4.00%) HTTP
5 1 (2.00%) DNS
5 1 (2.00%) Network Security
5 1 (2.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (4.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.00%) Hardhat
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (46.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (6.00%) Electronics
5 3 (6.00%) Games
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Finance
6 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Automotive
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Architect
2 5 (10.00%) Penetration Tester
2 5 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 5 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Lead
3 4 (8.00%) Security Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Tester
4 3 (6.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Applications Architect
5 2 (4.00%) FPGA Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Hardware Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
5 2 (4.00%) Information Specialist
5 2 (4.00%) Lead Tester
5 2 (4.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Senior
5 2 (4.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Firmware Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) Web Services
2 4 (8.00%) 802.1X
2 4 (8.00%) React
3 3 (6.00%) XML
4 2 (4.00%) .NET
4 2 (4.00%) OAuth
5 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.00%) FIDO
5 1 (2.00%) JWT
5 1 (2.00%) LDAP
5 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.00%) OpenID
5 1 (2.00%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (2.00%) Spring
5 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.00%) Truffle
5 1 (2.00%) Vue
5 1 (2.00%) web3js
5 1 (2.00%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Management Information System
1 12 (24.00%) PKI
2 5 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.00%) Operational Technology
4 3 (6.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.00%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (6.00%) FPGA
4 3 (6.00%) PCIe
4 3 (6.00%) Verilog
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.00%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.00%) IoT
6 1 (2.00%) Robotics
6 1 (2.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Unix
1 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) Key Management
2 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 9 (18.00%) Data Security
4 9 (18.00%) Information Security
5 8 (16.00%) Agile
5 8 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (14.00%) Security Testing
7 6 (12.00%) Data Protection
7 6 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 5 (10.00%) Data Management
8 5 (10.00%) PDM
8 5 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (10.00%) Problem Management
8 5 (10.00%) Service Management
8 5 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (10.00%) Validation
9 4 (8.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.00%) C
2 9 (18.00%) ActionScript
2 9 (18.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 8 (16.00%) Python
4 6 (12.00%) Java
5 5 (10.00%) MATLAB
5 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.00%) C++
7 3 (6.00%) Bash
7 3 (6.00%) SystemVerilog
7 3 (6.00%) Tcl
8 2 (4.00%) PHP
8 2 (4.00%) Ruby
8 2 (4.00%) Rust
8 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.00%) Assembly Language
9 1 (2.00%) Go
9 1 (2.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (22.00%) Degree
3 11 (22.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) CISSP
5 4 (8.00%) CEH
6 3 (6.00%) CISM
6 3 (6.00%) HNC
6 3 (6.00%) HND
6 3 (6.00%) OSCE
7 2 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.00%) GPEN
7 2 (4.00%) GWAPT
7 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (4.00%) OSCP
8 1 (2.00%) CREST Certified
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) GDPR
1 11 (22.00%) PCI DSS
2 6 (12.00%) HIPAA
3 5 (10.00%) NIST
4 3 (6.00%) DO-254
5 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.00%) JSP 440
6 1 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (2.00%) NCSC
6 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Firmware
3 2 (4.00%) Docker
4 1 (2.00%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) OPNET
2 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.00%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.00%) Nessus
3 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) IBM
2 6 (12.00%) IBM Sterling
3 4 (8.00%) Thales
4 3 (6.00%) Actel
4 3 (6.00%) Altera
4 3 (6.00%) Intel
4 3 (6.00%) Microsemi
4 3 (6.00%) Xilinx
5 1 (2.00%) Alibaba
5 1 (2.00%) Gemalto
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Qualys
5 1 (2.00%) VMware