Cryptography Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 280 411
Rank change year-on-year +3 +131 +139
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 31 51 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.39% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.44% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 23
10th Percentile £420 £550 £453
25th Percentile £481 £603 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £551
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +13.36% -8.11%
75th Percentile £603 £666 £650
90th Percentile £646 £750 £694
UK median daily rate £492 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -22.82% +2.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +20.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,362 11,526 20,052
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.77% 87.23% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,276 7,736 14,114
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -2.33% -0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 403 482
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.54 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.54 £30.63 £25.95
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.14 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £78.98
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

Cryptography
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cryptography trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cryptography.

Cryptography daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cryptography over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Cryptography daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cryptography.

Cryptography hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Ethereum
2 1 (3.23%) Hyperledger
2 1 (3.23%) MetaMask
2 1 (3.23%) SAS
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) GitHub
3 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) IaaS
5 3 (9.68%) SaaS
5 3 (9.68%) Serverless
6 2 (6.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.23%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) Network Security
2 5 (16.13%) Firewall
3 4 (12.90%) SSL
4 3 (9.68%) 4G
4 3 (9.68%) 5G
4 3 (9.68%) SSH
5 1 (3.23%) HTTP
5 1 (3.23%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) GitLab
1 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.13%) SonarQube
3 3 (9.68%) Liquibase
4 2 (6.45%) JIRA
5 1 (3.23%) Hardhat
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Military
4 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Automotive
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Senior
2 5 (16.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Security Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Engineering Specialist
4 3 (9.68%) Project Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 3 (9.68%) Security Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Security Project Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Test Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Applications Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Security Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) 802.1X
1 3 (9.68%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (9.68%) REST
1 3 (9.68%) RESTful
2 2 (6.45%) React
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) ADO
3 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
3 1 (3.23%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (3.23%) Truffle
3 1 (3.23%) Vue
3 1 (3.23%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) PKI
2 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
4 3 (9.68%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.23%) Blockchain
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (3.23%) IoT
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.23%) SCADA
5 1 (3.23%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
1 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (29.03%) Information Security
1 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (25.81%) Agile
2 8 (25.81%) Containerisation
2 8 (25.81%) Penetration Testing
3 7 (22.58%) Change Management
3 7 (22.58%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (19.35%) Change Control
4 6 (19.35%) DevSecOps
4 6 (19.35%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (19.35%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (16.13%) Application Security
5 5 (16.13%) DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) Key Management
5 5 (16.13%) Secure Coding
5 5 (16.13%) Service Management
6 4 (12.90%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) Bash
2 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.90%) Go
3 4 (12.90%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.23%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (3.23%) C
4 1 (3.23%) C++
4 1 (3.23%) PHP
4 1 (3.23%) Rust
4 1 (3.23%) Solidity
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) Degree
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
4 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (12.90%) DV Cleared
5 3 (9.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (9.68%) Master's Degree
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.23%) CCSP
7 1 (3.23%) CEH
7 1 (3.23%) CISM
7 1 (3.23%) CISSP
7 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.23%) CREST Certified
7 1 (3.23%) CRISC
7 1 (3.23%) OSCE
7 1 (3.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) GDPR
1 8 (25.81%) PCI DSS
2 6 (19.35%) HIPAA
3 3 (9.68%) NCSC
3 3 (9.68%) NIST
4 1 (3.23%) COBIT
4 1 (3.23%) COSO
4 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.23%) FIPS 140-2
4 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
2 8 (25.81%) Terraform
3 5 (16.13%) HP Fortify
3 5 (16.13%) Nessus
4 4 (12.90%) Ansible
5 3 (9.68%) Check_MK
5 3 (9.68%) Grafana
5 3 (9.68%) OPNET
5 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.23%) CASB
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) Splunk
3 5 (16.13%) Qualys
4 4 (12.90%) Google
5 3 (9.68%) Cisco
5 3 (9.68%) Fortinet
5 3 (9.68%) Juniper
6 2 (6.45%) IBM
7 1 (3.23%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (3.23%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle
7 1 (3.23%) Symantec