Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Cryptography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 117 122
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +45
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 5 1 20
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.31% 0.055% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.064% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £264 - £525
25th Percentile £322 £463 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -32.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £438 £488 -
90th Percentile £449 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £628 £610
% change year-on-year -16.33% +2.87% +1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,436 1,561 2,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 89.41% 86.20% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 918 1,394
10th Percentile £231 £213 £234
25th Percentile £386 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 43 53
10th Percentile £15.01 £13.33 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.46 £13.28
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +14.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.40
90th Percentile £40.66 £40.90 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in Scotland

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Edinburgh - 4 £323 -
Dundee - 1 £438 - 2
Cryptography
UK

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 3 (60.00%) Liquibase
3 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Information Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (20.00%) EMV
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Change Management
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Innovation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Key Management
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Go
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (20.00%) Qualys
3 1 (20.00%) Thales