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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 424 562
Rank change year-on-year +63 +138 -110
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 39 58 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 24
10th Percentile £455 £504 £463
25th Percentile £563 £538 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +2.04% +22.50%
75th Percentile £850 £738 £766
90th Percentile £1,150 £851 £813
England median daily rate £660 £617 £600
% change year-on-year +6.97% +2.83% +14.29%

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 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in London over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the London region over the 6 months to 17 June 2024. 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
Central London +39 4 £813 +12.07%
Cryptography
England

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 2 (5.13%) nginx
Business Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) AWS
2 13 (33.33%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) GCP
4 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) Snowflake
4 4 (10.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.13%) Serverless
7 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) Internet
2 4 (10.26%) Network Security
3 3 (7.69%) Firewall
3 3 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Big Data
1 4 (10.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Git
1 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (43.59%) Finance
2 4 (10.26%) Financial Institution
2 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.13%) Multimedia
4 2 (5.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Architect
2 11 (28.21%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (20.51%) Security Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Blockchain Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Developer
7 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Sales Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Security Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Solutions Consultant
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Security Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Digital Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Digital Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (2.56%) JWT
3 1 (2.56%) LDAP
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth
3 1 (2.56%) OpenID
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Blockchain
2 7 (17.95%) PKI
3 6 (15.38%) IoT
4 4 (10.26%) Algorithms
4 4 (10.26%) Web3
5 3 (7.69%) CBDC
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.13%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Alpine Linux
2 1 (2.56%) CentOS
2 1 (2.56%) Debian
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Computer Science
2 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
2 10 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (23.08%) Data Science
3 9 (23.08%) Fintech
3 9 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
4 8 (20.51%) OWASP
5 7 (17.95%) API Development
5 7 (17.95%) Application Security
5 7 (17.95%) Cloud Security
5 7 (17.95%) DevOps
5 7 (17.95%) Use Case
6 5 (12.82%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (12.82%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (10.26%) Presales
7 4 (10.26%) Privileged Access Management
7 4 (10.26%) SAP Security
7 4 (10.26%) Security Monitoring
7 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.26%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.69%) Python
2 2 (5.13%) C++
2 2 (5.13%) Java
3 1 (2.56%) Bash
3 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Degree
1 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) CISM
2 5 (12.82%) CISSP
2 5 (12.82%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.13%) CEH
4 2 (5.13%) CREST Certified
4 2 (5.13%) CSSLP
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.56%) CISA
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 4 (10.26%) NIST
3 2 (5.13%) COBIT
3 2 (5.13%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Terraform
2 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) HAProxy
3 2 (5.13%) Nessus
4 1 (2.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Grafana
4 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) CyberArk
1 4 (10.26%) Databricks
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
1 4 (10.26%) SAP
2 3 (7.69%) Centrify
2 3 (7.69%) Google
2 3 (7.69%) Unisys
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco
3 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.13%) Qualys
4 1 (2.56%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.56%) Thales