Cryptography Contracts in Scotland

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 148
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 6 0 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.35% - 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £322 - £655
25th Percentile £419 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
UK median daily rate £492 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -22.82% +2.00% +4.17%

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 1,595 1,659 2,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.82% 86.95% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,026 1,621
10th Percentile £263 £208 £250
25th Percentile £370 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £662 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 59 56
10th Percentile £16.59 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.25 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +6.90% -47.64%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £28.19 £54.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in Scotland

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in Scotland

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in Scotland

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 2 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
Edinburgh - 3 £420 - 7
Dundee - 2 £438 -
Glasgow - 1 £535 -
Cryptography
UK

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) C Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) C/C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) EMV
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (16.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft