Cryptography Contracts in Reading

Cryptography (Cryptology)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 -
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in Reading

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in Reading

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) GPEN
1 2 (100.00%) GWAPT
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (100.00%) OSCE
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft