Cryptography Contracts in the West Midlands

Cryptography (Cryptology)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Cryptography skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cryptography over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 137 154
Rank change year-on-year +25 +17 -42
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 1 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.052% 0.12% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% 0.14% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £394
25th Percentile - £525 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - -2.22%
75th Percentile - £575 £700
90th Percentile - - £800
England median daily rate £625 £575 £615
% change year-on-year +8.70% -6.50% +33.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Cryptography is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,609 2,150 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.80% 88.22% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 1,483 2,430
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% +16.36%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £575
90th Percentile £733 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 70
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.00 £11.93
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -7.04%
75th Percentile £41.44 £23.22 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.00 £24.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the West Midlands

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in the West Midlands

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Birmingham +13 1 £750 - 1
Cryptography
England

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk