Cryptography Contracts in the South East

Cryptography (Cryptology)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 148 147 209
Rank change year-on-year -1 +62 +38
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 11 58 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 1.04% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.23% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 32 6
10th Percentile £463 £478 £425
25th Percentile £500 £613 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £645
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -3.10% +20.00%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £673
90th Percentile £620 £738 £677
England median daily rate £585 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -6.40% +4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the South East

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in the South East

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in the South East

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in the South East

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire -10 7 £588 -6.00% 13
Thames Valley +32 2 £500 -11.50% 16
Berkshire +23 2 £500 +5.26% 7
Surrey +18 2 - - 6
Cryptography
England

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) TPMS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) AWS KMS
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Burp Suite
1 2 (18.18%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Aerospace
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Information Assurance Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Information Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Key Management
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Digital Identity
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) Communications Security
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Information Assurance
5 2 (18.18%) OWASP
5 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (18.18%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) C
2 2 (18.18%) C++
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) Degree
3 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) CEH
5 2 (18.18%) CISM
5 2 (18.18%) CISSP
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (18.18%) GPEN
5 2 (18.18%) GWAPT
5 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
5 2 (18.18%) OSCE
5 2 (18.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) NIST
2 3 (27.27%) GDPR
2 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
3 2 (18.18%) HIPAA
3 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (9.09%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) Thales
2 1 (9.09%) VMware