Cryptography Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Cryptography skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £523 - -
25th Percentile £536 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 - -
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile £594 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £527 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 784 608 1,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.68% 86.49% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 381 678
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £650 £680 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £13.60
25th Percentile £15.29 £17.43 £16.92
Median hourly rate £21.72 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.17% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £46.56 £40.81 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.60 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +1.48%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cryptography.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Leeds - 2 £564 - 2
Cryptography
Yorkshire

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Federated Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) KYC
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
1 2 (100.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCSK
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISA
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2