Cryptography Contracts in Hampshire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 71 91
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 8 32 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.80% 2.12% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 2.62% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 24 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £613 £658
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £673
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -7.10% -
75th Percentile £488 £638 £681
90th Percentile - £719 -
South East median daily rate £475 £625 £665
% change year-on-year -24.00% -6.02% +62.20%

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 858 1,223 1,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.23% 81.05% 87.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 752 639
10th Percentile £314 £363 £260
25th Percentile £451 £455 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +10.48% +0.86%
75th Percentile £603 £661 £613
90th Percentile £658 £736 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 123 109
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.39 £51.06 £19.99
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +9.24% +32.91%
75th Percentile £58.75 £74.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +98.02%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in Hampshire

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend 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 16 August 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 -6 8 £475 -24.00% 1
Cryptography
South East

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS KMS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
1 5 (62.50%) Threat Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Identity
2 3 (37.50%) Key Management
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Thales