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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 111 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.042% 0.31% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £429 -
UK median daily rate £550 £492 £600
% change year-on-year +11.79% -18.00% -2.99%

All Process & 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 2,002 1,476 1,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 83.77% 91.45% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 812 984
10th Percentile £263 £252 £205
25th Percentile £375 £389 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £564 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £606 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 106 48
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.84 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.87 £14.28
Median hourly rate £16.49 £20.00 £19.94
Median % change year-on-year -17.58% +0.31% +3.95%
75th Percentile £35.00 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £63.75 £42.90 £45.23
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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
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 25 September 2026. 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 -3 1 - - 4
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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI