Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Luton

Cryptography (Cryptology)
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton 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 27 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 3.40% 1.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 1.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £60 - -
25th Percentile £61 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £62 - -
75th Percentile £62 - -
90th Percentile £63 - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £62 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 131 84 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 89.12% 95.45% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 45 112
10th Percentile £313 £218 £450
25th Percentile £409 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £553
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
Bedfordshire median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 3
10th Percentile £65.95 £20.26 £53.00
25th Percentile £80.81 £45.38 £53.75
Median hourly rate £90.50 £55.65 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.62% +1.18% -3.93%
75th Percentile £91.50 £65.80 £60.25
90th Percentile - £68.00 £61.90
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £84.50 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +69.00% -9.09% -3.51%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Luton

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Cryptography.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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:

Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Ethernet
General
1 5 (100.00%) Electronics
1 5 (100.00%) Games
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA
1 5 (100.00%) PCIe
1 5 (100.00%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Physics
1 5 (100.00%) UVM
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 5 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
1 5 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) HNC
1 5 (100.00%) HND
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Actel
1 5 (100.00%) Altera
1 5 (100.00%) Intel
1 5 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 5 (100.00%) Xilinx