Cryptography Contracts in Wiltshire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 46 75 73
Rank change year-on-year +29 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 7 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.50% 0.13% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.16% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £514 - £550
25th Percentile £536 - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £603 - £781
90th Percentile £654 - £825
South West median daily rate £563 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 631 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 90.77% 85.16% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 491 673
10th Percentile £308 £363 £365
25th Percentile £470 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £638
90th Percentile £695 £700 £718
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 13
10th Percentile £18.73 - £40.85
25th Percentile £18.87 - £44.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.79 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.92% -78.68% +9.09%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £69.50
90th Percentile £26.51 - £75.90
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £64.15
% change year-on-year -61.60% +2.11% +18.79%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in Wiltshire

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in Wiltshire

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in Wiltshire

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Wiltshire 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
Corsham - 4 £585 - 2
Swindon +3 3 £515 -14.17%
Cryptography
South West

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) Skype
2 1 (14.29%) VSAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) PKI
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (42.86%) Change Control
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) CISM
2 3 (42.86%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
1 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
1 3 (42.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) OPNET
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) VMware