Cryptography Job Trends in Berkshire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Cryptography skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - 162
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 3 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.14% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £79,000 £42,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +88.10% -55.79% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Cryptography falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,632 1,282 2,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 77.49% 94.96% 86.33%
Number of salaries quoted 872 522 1,752
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,188 £46,063 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £88,675
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cryptography relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Cryptography
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cryptography.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) S/MIME
2 1 (33.33%) SNMP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Test Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Endace
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Thales
Cryptography jobs