Cryptography Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring Cryptography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 50 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 1.29% 0.44% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 0.51% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £531 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.22% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £623 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £530 £538 £463
% change year-on-year -1.40% +16.22% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 468 391 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 86.19% 86.89% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 231 212
10th Percentile £325 £406 £220
25th Percentile £413 £494 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £567 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +2.94%
75th Percentile £622 £626 £688
90th Percentile £725 £675 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £522 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% +4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 5
10th Percentile £16.13 £14.31 £20.50
25th Percentile £29.50 £14.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.60 £32.28 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -6.43% +109.09%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.00 -
90th Percentile - - £36.30
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.03 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.60% +16.00% +41.08%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in Warwickshire

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Leamington Spa 0 2 £558 +1.36%
Warwick - 2 £600 - 1
Gaydon - 1 - -
Cryptography
West Midlands

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Security Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Security Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (57.14%) Product Vision
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
1 4 (57.14%) User Stories
2 3 (42.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (42.86%) Change Control
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Key Management
2 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Product Management
2 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) FIPS 140-2
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
1 4 (57.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility