Cryptography Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 301 322 401
Rank change year-on-year +21 +79 +44
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 35 77 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.44% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 47 36
10th Percentile £481 £490 £444
25th Percentile £519 £613 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £616 £669 £725
90th Percentile £639 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £580 £633 £625
% change year-on-year -8.30% +1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 -
25th Percentile £56.00 £51.88 £59.73
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +17.65%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £72.98
90th Percentile £89.80 £76.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cryptography in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the UK excluding London 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
South East -1 11 £538 -14.00% 71
South West +52 9 £585 -15.22% 37
East of England +37 9 - - 53
Scotland +15 3 £534 -2.91% 16
North of England +10 3 £650 -2.84% 66
Yorkshire - 2 - - 25
Midlands +22 1 £625 -16.67% 48
West Midlands +14 1 £625 -16.67% 27
North West +6 1 £650 -2.84% 32
Wales - 1 £650 - 9
Cryptography
UK

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (14.29%) Confluence
1 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) TPMS
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) AWS
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) AWS KMS
2 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
2 3 (8.57%) IaaS
2 3 (8.57%) SaaS
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.71%) PaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) SSL
2 3 (8.57%) Ethernet
2 3 (8.57%) Network Security
3 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.86%) SSH
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Burp Suite
1 2 (5.71%) Metasploit
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Aerospace
4 3 (8.57%) Electronics
4 3 (8.57%) Games
5 2 (5.71%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.71%) FPGA Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Hardware Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Information Assurance Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Information Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (5.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Tester
6 1 (2.86%) Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Firmware Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Lead
6 1 (2.86%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) 802.1X
1 4 (11.43%) Web Services
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth
2 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Management Information System
1 12 (34.29%) PKI
2 6 (17.14%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
4 3 (8.57%) Algorithms
4 3 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (8.57%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (8.57%) FPGA
4 3 (8.57%) PCIe
4 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
4 3 (8.57%) Verilog
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.86%) IoT
5 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.86%) Robotics
5 1 (2.86%) SCADA
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (28.57%) Key Management
3 9 (25.71%) Information Security
4 8 (22.86%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
6 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 5 (14.29%) Data Management
6 5 (14.29%) PDM
6 5 (14.29%) Security Management
6 5 (14.29%) Security Testing
6 5 (14.29%) Validation
7 4 (11.43%) Change Control
7 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security
7 4 (11.43%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (11.43%) Risk Management
8 3 (8.57%) Digital Identity
8 3 (8.57%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 3 (8.57%) UVM
8 3 (8.57%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) MATLAB
2 4 (11.43%) C
3 3 (8.57%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) SystemVerilog
3 3 (8.57%) Tcl
4 2 (5.71%) ActionScript
4 2 (5.71%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (5.71%) C++
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) Ruby
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (28.57%) Degree
3 10 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) CISM
5 4 (11.43%) CISSP
6 3 (8.57%) HNC
6 3 (8.57%) HND
6 3 (8.57%) OSCE
7 2 (5.71%) CEH
7 2 (5.71%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (5.71%) GPEN
7 2 (5.71%) GWAPT
7 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
7 2 (5.71%) OSCP
8 1 (2.86%) CCSP
8 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.86%) CRISC
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) GDPR
1 7 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (14.29%) NIST
3 3 (8.57%) DO-254
3 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.71%) HIPAA
4 2 (5.71%) JSP 440
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (2.86%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (2.86%) NCSC
5 1 (2.86%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) Firmware
3 1 (2.86%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) OPNET
2 1 (2.86%) CASB
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Actel
2 3 (8.57%) Altera
2 3 (8.57%) Intel
2 3 (8.57%) Microsemi
2 3 (8.57%) Thales
2 3 (8.57%) Xilinx
3 1 (2.86%) Alibaba
3 1 (2.86%) Forcepoint
3 1 (2.86%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) IBM
3 1 (2.86%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (2.86%) VMware