Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Cryptography (Cryptology)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Cryptography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £523 - -
25th Percentile £536 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 - -
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile £594 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £564 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 524 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.81% 86.61% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 332 547
10th Percentile £304 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -9.05% -
75th Percentile £573 £574 £613
90th Percentile £645 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £15.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.38 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.18 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.72 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -33.17% +71.05% -11.63%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Federated Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) KYC
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
1 2 (100.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCSK
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISA
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2