Cryptography Contracts in London

Cryptography (Cryptology)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 358 435
Rank change year-on-year +19 +77 +112
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 14 33 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 27 42
10th Percentile £508 £438 £427
25th Percentile £519 £563 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £594 £744 £723
90th Percentile £613 £850 £788
England median daily rate £585 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -6.40% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in London

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in London

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in London

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (7.14%) Ethereum
1 1 (7.14%) Hyperledger
1 1 (7.14%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) SSL
2 4 (28.57%) HTTPS
2 4 (28.57%) SSH
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Hardhat
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Tester
2 2 (14.29%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Blockchain Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) React
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) FIDO
3 1 (7.14%) JWT
3 1 (7.14%) OAuth
3 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.14%) OpenID
3 1 (7.14%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) Truffle
3 1 (7.14%) Vue
3 1 (7.14%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) web3js
3 1 (7.14%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 3 (21.43%) Operational Technology
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.14%) Blockchain
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) PKI
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Unix
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Data Security
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Key Management
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Red Team
4 3 (21.43%) Service Management
4 3 (21.43%) Social Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Application Security
5 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) ActionScript
1 6 (42.86%) ActionScript 2.0
2 5 (35.71%) C
3 3 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) PHP
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) C++
5 1 (7.14%) Go
5 1 (7.14%) Rust
5 1 (7.14%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (14.29%) CEH
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (14.29%) CISSP
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) PhD
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) IBM
1 4 (28.57%) IBM Sterling
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle