Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire 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 70 76 84
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +30
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 13 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.03% 0.51% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.61% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 5
10th Percentile - £553 -
25th Percentile £463 £575 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £627 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% +4.50% +71.43%
75th Percentile £755 £675 £650
90th Percentile £789 £743 £680
South East median daily rate £475 £627 £583
% change year-on-year -24.24% +7.64% +53.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,063 819 1,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.90% 83.49% 87.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 559 639
10th Percentile £311 £356 £323
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £649
90th Percentile £713 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 60 83
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.91 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.38 £21.15
Median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.86% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £25.15 £71.88 £64.38
90th Percentile £49.38 £75.00 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in Hampshire

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke +2 8 £475 -24.00% 1
Farnborough -5 2 £606 -3.31% 1
Andover - 2 £763 - 1
Hook - 1 £800 -
Cryptography
South East

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) DMZ
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Threat Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Key Management
3 3 (23.08%) Security Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) ArchiMate
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (7.69%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) SDLC
5 1 (7.69%) Security Management
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (84.62%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) NCSC
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) GRC
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (7.69%) JSP 440
3 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Sparx
2 2 (15.38%) Thales
3 1 (7.69%) VMware