Cryptography Contracts in the West Midlands

Cryptography (Cryptology)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 106 116
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +60
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 9 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.16% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.20% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £502 - £450
25th Percentile £556 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -40.63%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £588
90th Percentile £638 £710 £610
England median daily rate £490 £666 £600
% change year-on-year -26.43% +11.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,520 1,532 1,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.32% 81.88% 85.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 1,040 1,260
10th Percentile £233 £269 £263
25th Percentile £380 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 58 41
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.13 £14.36
25th Percentile £14.24 £14.78 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.34 £21.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.91% -19.44% +54.29%
75th Percentile £35.29 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.38 £43.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 17 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
Warwickshire -2 7 £600 +9.09%
Herefordshire - 1 £525 - 2
Staffordshire - 1 £625 -
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) BGP
1 1 (11.11%) DMVPN
1 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) IPsec
1 1 (11.11%) OSPF
1 1 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
1 3 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Development Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 3 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Key Management
1 4 (44.44%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (44.44%) Product Vision
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
1 4 (44.44%) User Stories
2 3 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (33.33%) Change Control
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Product Management
2 3 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Data Development
4 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (11.11%) Data Security
4 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIA
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) FIPS 140-2
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) CASB
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Juniper
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds