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 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 302 308 363
Rank change year-on-year +6 +55 +97
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 71 63 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.41% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 49 46
10th Percentile £384 £493 £419
25th Percentile £463 £613 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £540 £670 £686
90th Percentile £624 £742 £700
UK median daily rate £492 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -22.82% +2.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £62.88 - £59.73
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £67.07
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +19.27% +16.65%
75th Percentile £88.00 - £70.75
90th Percentile - - £72.09
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +20.17%

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 13,658 15,365 19,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.02% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,214 9,255 13,222
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,315 1,608 1,218
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.10 £75.00 £76.37
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 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 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
South East +2 18 £475 -24.00% 9
East of England +17 14 £60 - 13
North of England -11 14 £443 -33.87% 21
South West +36 10 £540 +2.86% 6
West Midlands 0 9 £600 +9.09% 3
Midlands -2 9 £600 +9.09% 3
Yorkshire - 9 £393 - 5
Scotland - 6 £438 - 12
North West -15 5 £475 -29.05% 13
Wales +6 1 £650 +165.31% 1
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 12 (16.90%) Confluence
2 11 (15.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.82%) TPMS
4 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Simulink
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.49%) AWS
2 7 (9.86%) Azure
2 7 (9.86%) GCP
2 7 (9.86%) Serverless
3 3 (4.23%) AWS KMS
3 3 (4.23%) IaaS
3 3 (4.23%) SaaS
4 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.82%) PaaS
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) NFC
2 7 (9.86%) Ethernet
2 7 (9.86%) SSH
2 7 (9.86%) SSL
3 6 (8.45%) PPP
4 4 (5.63%) Firewall
5 3 (4.23%) 4G
5 3 (4.23%) 5G
6 2 (2.82%) Network Security
7 1 (1.41%) BGP
7 1 (1.41%) DMVPN
7 1 (1.41%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.41%) IPsec
7 1 (1.41%) OSPF
7 1 (1.41%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.41%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.41%) VLAN
7 1 (1.41%) WAN
7 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.86%) GitLab
2 7 (9.86%) Liquibase
3 6 (8.45%) Eclipse
3 6 (8.45%) Valgrind
4 5 (7.04%) JIRA
5 2 (2.82%) Git
6 1 (1.41%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.41%) Metasploit
General
1 37 (52.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.54%) Finance
3 9 (12.68%) Electronics
4 8 (11.27%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (9.86%) Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Games
6 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.63%) Aerospace
7 4 (5.63%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.23%) Military
9 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.41%) Automotive
10 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (16.90%) Senior
2 11 (15.49%) Software Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) C++ Software Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) Senior Software Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) Architect
5 6 (8.45%) Development Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Senior Development Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Software Development Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Python Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Analyst
7 4 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) FPGA Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.31%) REST
2 9 (12.68%) Web Services
3 7 (9.86%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (9.86%) RESTful
3 7 (9.86%) XML
4 6 (8.45%) JSON
5 3 (4.23%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.41%) Kafka
6 1 (1.41%) Node.js
6 1 (1.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.76%) PKI
2 10 (14.08%) Algorithms
2 10 (14.08%) Management Information System
3 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.86%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (9.86%) FPGA
4 7 (9.86%) PCIe
4 7 (9.86%) Verilog
5 6 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (8.45%) Smartcard
6 5 (7.04%) Public Cloud
7 4 (5.63%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (5.63%) Tandem
8 2 (2.82%) EMV
8 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.41%) IoT
9 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.41%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.35%) Linux
2 10 (14.08%) Windows
3 6 (8.45%) Ubuntu
4 5 (7.04%) Unix
5 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.17%) Computer Science
2 18 (25.35%) Software Engineering
3 17 (23.94%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (22.54%) Agile
5 15 (21.13%) Change Management
6 14 (19.72%) Key Management
7 12 (16.90%) Information Security
8 11 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (14.08%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (12.68%) CI/CD
11 8 (11.27%) User Experience
12 7 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (9.86%) Data Management
12 7 (9.86%) DevOps
12 7 (9.86%) Machine Learning
12 7 (9.86%) Microservices
12 7 (9.86%) PDM
12 7 (9.86%) Physics
12 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (9.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.13%) Python
2 12 (16.90%) Java
3 9 (12.68%) C++
3 9 (12.68%) MATLAB
4 7 (9.86%) Go
4 7 (9.86%) SystemVerilog
4 7 (9.86%) Tcl
5 6 (8.45%) C#
5 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.63%) C
7 1 (1.41%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.41%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (45.07%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.39%) Degree
3 17 (23.94%) SC Cleared
4 13 (18.31%) DV Cleared
5 12 (16.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (12.68%) Master's Degree
7 7 (9.86%) AWS Certification
7 7 (9.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (9.86%) CISM
7 7 (9.86%) HNC
7 7 (9.86%) HND
8 6 (8.45%) CISSP
9 2 (2.82%) CEH
9 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.82%) OSCE
10 1 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.41%) CRISC
10 1 (1.41%) GPEN
10 1 (1.41%) GWAPT
10 1 (1.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) NIST
2 8 (11.27%) GDPR
2 8 (11.27%) PCI DSS
3 7 (9.86%) DO-254
4 5 (7.04%) FIPS 140-2
5 3 (4.23%) NCSC
5 3 (4.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.41%) COBIT
7 1 (1.41%) COSO
7 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (12.68%) Firmware
2 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Ansible
1 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.86%) Grafana
2 7 (9.86%) Prometheus
2 7 (9.86%) Terraform
3 3 (4.23%) Check_MK
3 3 (4.23%) OPNET
4 1 (1.41%) CASB
4 1 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.08%) Splunk
3 7 (9.86%) Actel
3 7 (9.86%) Altera
3 7 (9.86%) Google
3 7 (9.86%) Intel
3 7 (9.86%) Microsemi
3 7 (9.86%) Xilinx
4 4 (5.63%) Cisco
4 4 (5.63%) IBM
4 4 (5.63%) Juniper
5 3 (4.23%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.23%) Thales
6 1 (1.41%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle
6 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds