Cryptography Contracts in the Midlands

Cryptography (Cryptology)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 129 139
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +75
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 9 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.36% 0.11% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.14% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 8
10th Percentile £502 - £450
25th Percentile £556 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% -31.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £606
90th Percentile £638 £710 £640
England median daily rate £490 £666 £600
% change year-on-year -26.43% +11.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,208 2,160 2,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.72% 81.42% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,473 1,810
10th Percentile £231 £270 £250
25th Percentile £358 £373 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £642 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 95 84
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.13 £14.85 £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.35 £21.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -21.82% +47.85%
75th Percentile £26.69 £38.13 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the Midlands

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in the Midlands

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in the Midlands

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in the Midlands

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
West Midlands -3 9 £600 +9.09% 6
Cryptography
England

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) BGP
1 1 (11.11%) DMVPN
1 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) IPsec
1 1 (11.11%) OSPF
1 1 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
1 3 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Development Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 3 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Key Management
1 4 (44.44%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (44.44%) Product Vision
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
1 4 (44.44%) User Stories
2 3 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (33.33%) Change Control
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Product Management
2 3 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Data Development
4 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (11.11%) Data Security
4 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIA
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) FIPS 140-2
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) CASB
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Juniper
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds