Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Cryptography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.26% - 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £475
75th Percentile £675 - £606
90th Percentile - - £633
South West median daily rate £540 £657 £530
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.01% -1.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 333 338 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.17% 88.02% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 212 244
10th Percentile £325 £383 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £676 £688
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 44
10th Percentile £18.05 £22.50 £28.28
25th Percentile £26.75 £29.00 £47.79
Median hourly rate £34.59 £35.03 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -28.10% -17.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £79.40
90th Percentile £78.50 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cryptography.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Cheltenham - 1 £650 - 1
Cryptography
South West

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Innovation
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes