Cryptography Contracts in the North of England

Cryptography (Cryptology)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Cryptography skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cryptography over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 - 243
Rank change year-on-year - - -75
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 12 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% - 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile £655 - £562
25th Percentile £664 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.44%
75th Percentile £679 - £675
90th Percentile £695 - -
England median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Cryptography is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the North of England

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in the North of England

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in the North of England

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in the North of England

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West - 12 £669 - 5
Cryptography
England

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Architect
1 10 (83.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) Smart Contracts
1 1 (8.33%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Security Architecture
2 10 (83.33%) Business Strategy
2 10 (83.33%) Information Security
2 10 (83.33%) IT Strategy
2 10 (83.33%) Penetration Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Project Delivery
2 10 (83.33%) Risk Management
2 10 (83.33%) Service Delivery
2 10 (83.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (8.33%) Data Security
3 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (8.33%) ETL
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (8.33%) Key Management
3 1 (8.33%) SIEM
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (91.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (91.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) F5
1 1 (8.33%) Qualys
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk