Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Cryptography (Cryptology)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Cryptography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 23 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 4.04% - 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% - 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 4
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £438 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £551
75th Percentile £600 - £595
90th Percentile £892 - £673
South Yorkshire median daily rate £519 - £551

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 545 371 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.78% 89.61% 96.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 193 246
10th Percentile £304 £314 £394
25th Percentile £388 £450 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £679
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £587
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £15.05 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.00 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +3.70% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.80 £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +14.69%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in Sheffield

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) AWS
1 13 (56.52%) GCP
1 13 (56.52%) Serverless
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) SSH
2 3 (13.04%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.35%) SNMP
3 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) GitLab
1 13 (56.52%) Jenkins
1 13 (56.52%) Liquibase
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 18 (78.26%) Finance
2 14 (60.87%) Banking
2 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
3 12 (52.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Software Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Python Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) GCP Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Design Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) Elastic Stack
1 13 (56.52%) REST
1 13 (56.52%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) OAuth
2 3 (13.04%) SAML
3 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Cloud Native
1 13 (56.52%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (47.83%) Public Cloud
3 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (8.70%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (69.57%) Computer Science
2 16 (69.57%) Software Engineering
3 14 (60.87%) Change Management
3 14 (60.87%) DevOps
4 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
4 13 (56.52%) Containerisation
4 13 (56.52%) Cost Optimisation
4 13 (56.52%) Data Security
4 13 (56.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (56.52%) Microservices
5 12 (52.17%) Agile
5 12 (52.17%) High Availability
5 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure Automation
5 12 (52.17%) Root Cause Analysis
6 11 (47.83%) Continuous Delivery
6 11 (47.83%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (47.83%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (34.78%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (30.43%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 13 (56.52%) Go
3 6 (26.09%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) Degree
1 16 (69.57%) Master's Degree
2 13 (56.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (43.48%) AWS Certification
4 8 (34.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (17.39%) CISM
5 4 (17.39%) CISSP
6 3 (13.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) PhD
8 1 (4.35%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) FIPS 140-2
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) GLBA
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Ansible
1 13 (56.52%) Grafana
1 13 (56.52%) Kubernetes
1 13 (56.52%) Prometheus
1 13 (56.52%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Splunk
2 11 (47.83%) Google
3 3 (13.04%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks