Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cryptography (Cryptology)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 88 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.27% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £461 - £493
25th Percentile £466 - £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 - £581
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.83%
75th Percentile £487 - £633
90th Percentile £490 - £654
North West median daily rate £430 £775 £681
% change year-on-year -44.52% +13.76% -6.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SSH
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Tandem
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Attestation
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Key Management
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft