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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 435 529
Rank change year-on-year +4 +94 +160
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 59 114 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.36% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 79 81
10th Percentile - £505 £463
25th Percentile £463 £613 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £660 £617
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% +6.97% +2.83%
75th Percentile £603 £750 £681
90th Percentile £644 £915 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £666 £625
% change year-on-year -21.17% +6.56% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £62.88 - £59.73
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £67.07
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +19.27% +13.68%
75th Percentile £88.00 - £70.75
90th Percentile - - £72.09
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +20.17%

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 23,042 31,926 42,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.37% 85.47% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,874 20,691 29,652
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,121 2,339 1,542
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.82% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.97 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +32 16 £500 -31.03% 57
East of England +39 13 - - 17
South East +2 13 £475 -24.00% 17
South West +51 8 £585 -19.31% 7
North of England +1 3 £650 -2.91% 9
Midlands +9 2 £575 +4.55% 3
West Midlands +8 2 £575 +4.55% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
North West -4 1 £650 -2.91% 4
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 7 (11.86%) Confluence
1 7 (11.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.39%) TPMS
3 1 (1.69%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.69%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.69%) MetaMask
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.69%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.81%) Azure
2 9 (15.25%) AWS
3 5 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (8.47%) GitHub
3 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (6.78%) AWS KMS
5 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.69%) GCP
6 1 (1.69%) IaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.81%) SSL
2 6 (10.17%) Ethernet
2 6 (10.17%) HTTPS
2 6 (10.17%) SSH
3 5 (8.47%) Network Security
3 5 (8.47%) NFC
3 5 (8.47%) PPP
4 4 (6.78%) Firewall
5 2 (3.39%) HTTP
6 1 (1.69%) 4G
6 1 (1.69%) BGP
6 1 (1.69%) DNS
6 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.69%) IPsec
6 1 (1.69%) OSPF
6 1 (1.69%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.69%) VLAN
6 1 (1.69%) WAN
6 1 (1.69%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.69%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) RDBMS
1 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Eclipse
1 5 (8.47%) GitLab
1 5 (8.47%) Jenkins
1 5 (8.47%) SonarQube
1 5 (8.47%) Valgrind
2 1 (1.69%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.69%) Hardhat
2 1 (1.69%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Electronics
3 7 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Games
5 5 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.78%) Aerospace
6 4 (6.78%) Finance
7 2 (3.39%) Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.69%) Automotive
8 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Architect
2 7 (11.86%) Senior
3 6 (10.17%) Security Architect
4 5 (8.47%) C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Development Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Senior Development Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Senior Software Development Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Software Development Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) FPGA Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) Web Services
2 8 (13.56%) XML
3 5 (8.47%) JSON
3 5 (8.47%) REST
4 4 (6.78%) React
5 3 (5.08%) 802.1X
6 2 (3.39%) .NET
6 2 (3.39%) OAuth
7 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.69%) FIDO
7 1 (1.69%) JWT
7 1 (1.69%) Kafka
7 1 (1.69%) Node.js
7 1 (1.69%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.69%) OpenID
7 1 (1.69%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.69%) Truffle
7 1 (1.69%) Vue
7 1 (1.69%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) PKI
2 11 (18.64%) Management Information System
3 6 (10.17%) Algorithms
3 6 (10.17%) FPGA
3 6 (10.17%) PCIe
3 6 (10.17%) Verilog
4 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
4 5 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (8.47%) Smartcard
5 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (5.08%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.69%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (1.69%) IoT
8 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.69%) Robotics
8 1 (1.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Windows
2 9 (15.25%) Unix
3 7 (11.86%) Linux
4 5 (8.47%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (22.03%) Key Management
3 11 (18.64%) Data Security
4 9 (15.25%) Agile
4 9 (15.25%) Penetration Testing
5 8 (13.56%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
6 7 (11.86%) Computer Science
6 7 (11.86%) Data Management
6 7 (11.86%) Information Security
6 7 (11.86%) PDM
6 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering
6 7 (11.86%) Validation
6 7 (11.86%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (10.17%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (10.17%) DevSecOps
7 6 (10.17%) Front End Development
7 6 (10.17%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (10.17%) User Experience
7 6 (10.17%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.81%) Python
2 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
3 9 (15.25%) ActionScript
3 9 (15.25%) ActionScript 2.0
3 9 (15.25%) C
3 9 (15.25%) Java
4 8 (13.56%) MATLAB
5 7 (11.86%) Bash
5 7 (11.86%) C++
6 6 (10.17%) SystemVerilog
6 6 (10.17%) Tcl
7 5 (8.47%) C#
7 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.39%) PHP
8 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.69%) Go
9 1 (1.69%) Ruby
9 1 (1.69%) Rust
9 1 (1.69%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 34 (57.63%) Security Cleared
2 21 (35.59%) SC Cleared
3 13 (22.03%) Degree
4 11 (18.64%) DV Cleared
5 7 (11.86%) CISSP
6 6 (10.17%) HNC
6 6 (10.17%) HND
7 5 (8.47%) CISM
8 4 (6.78%) CEH
9 3 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (3.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (3.39%) OSCE
11 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.69%) CREST Certified
11 1 (1.69%) GPEN
11 1 (1.69%) GWAPT
11 1 (1.69%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.69%) JNCIS
11 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) GDPR
1 12 (20.34%) PCI DSS
2 9 (15.25%) HIPAA
3 6 (10.17%) DO-254
4 5 (8.47%) NIST
5 3 (5.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.69%) NCSC
7 1 (1.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Firmware
2 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) HP Fortify
2 5 (8.47%) Nessus
2 5 (8.47%) Terraform
3 3 (5.08%) OPNET
4 2 (3.39%) Ansible
4 2 (3.39%) CASB
5 1 (1.69%) Check_MK
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Actel
2 6 (10.17%) Altera
2 6 (10.17%) IBM
2 6 (10.17%) IBM Sterling
2 6 (10.17%) Intel
2 6 (10.17%) Microsemi
2 6 (10.17%) Xilinx
3 5 (8.47%) Qualys
3 5 (8.47%) Thales
4 2 (3.39%) Cisco
4 2 (3.39%) Juniper
4 2 (3.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.69%) Gemalto
5 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk