Cryptography Job Trends in Cheshire

Cryptography (Cryptology)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Cryptography skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 - 100
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.052% - 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% - 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £97,000
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £61,250 £54,793 £90,000
% change year-on-year +11.78% -39.12% +51.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,356 524 1,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 70.59% 91.93% 76.94%
Number of salaries quoted 850 163 965
10th Percentile £29,000 £24,874 £25,700
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -4.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,375 £79,500 £74,782
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cryptography
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cryptography.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Thales