Cryptography Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Cryptography skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 14 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.21% - 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% - 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £364 - -
25th Percentile £384 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £551
75th Percentile £536 - £595
90th Percentile £615 - £673
Yorkshire median daily rate £435 - £551
% change year-on-year - - -4.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 602 401 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.10% 87.17% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 213 269
10th Percentile £288 £326 £363
25th Percentile £365 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £520 £590
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -11.86% +18.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £688
90th Percentile £613 £649 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £14.77 - £14.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £15.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +47.60% -25.00% +5.26%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in South Yorkshire

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Cryptography.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in South Yorkshire

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Sheffield - 14 £435 - 4
Cryptography
Yorkshire

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
1 7 (50.00%) GCP
1 7 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) SSH
2 2 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (7.14%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) GitLab
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (50.00%) Liquibase
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 8 (57.14%) Banking
3 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (42.86%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Python Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cryptography Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Designer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (50.00%) REST
1 7 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 7 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (35.71%) Public Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (14.29%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (57.14%) Change Management
2 8 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 8 (57.14%) Data Security
2 8 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (50.00%) Microservices
4 6 (42.86%) High Availability
4 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (35.71%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (35.71%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (35.71%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Go
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
3 1 (7.14%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (7.14%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Degree
1 8 (57.14%) Master's Degree
2 7 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 7 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) CISM
4 1 (7.14%) CISSP
4 1 (7.14%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) FIPS 140-2
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) GLBA
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Ansible
1 7 (50.00%) Grafana
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Splunk
2 6 (42.86%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) BiZZdesign