Cryptography Job Trends in England

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Cryptography skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 635 493
Rank change year-on-year +83 -142 +140
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 65 44 188
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.091% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.10% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26 25 165
10th Percentile £54,793 £69,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £62,499 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% +7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in England

Cryptography
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cryptography.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cryptography in England

Cryptography
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +65 31 £90,000 - 17
North West +25 10 £54,793 +0.55% 7
North of England +14 10 £54,793 +0.55% 21
South West +11 8 £78,750 +1.61% 19
South East +41 6 £65,750 -42.83% 33
Midlands +23 5 £69,250 - 15
West Midlands +22 5 £69,250 - 3
East of England +22 3 - - 24
Cryptography
UK

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (1.54%) Confluence
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.15%) AWS
2 22 (33.85%) Azure
3 12 (18.46%) GCP
4 11 (16.92%) SaaS
5 8 (12.31%) GitHub
5 8 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (10.77%) IaaS
6 7 (10.77%) PaaS
6 7 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (6.15%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (6.15%) Pulumi
7 4 (6.15%) Serverless
8 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.54%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.08%) Network Security
2 14 (21.54%) Firewall
3 6 (9.23%) DMZ
4 4 (6.15%) DSL
4 4 (6.15%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (4.62%) Bluetooth
5 3 (4.62%) UWB
5 3 (4.62%) VPN
6 2 (3.08%) InfiniBand
6 2 (3.08%) Internet
6 2 (3.08%) SSL
7 1 (1.54%) DMARC
7 1 (1.54%) S/MIME
7 1 (1.54%) SSH
7 1 (1.54%) WAN
7 1 (1.54%) Wideband
7 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.54%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.15%) GitLab
2 4 (6.15%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.62%) Git
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Finance
3 10 (15.38%) Avionics
3 10 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.85%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.69%) Banking
6 5 (7.69%) Retail
7 4 (6.15%) Back Office
7 4 (6.15%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.62%) Military
9 2 (3.08%) Law
10 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Architect
1 14 (21.54%) Security Engineer
2 13 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (20.00%) Senior
3 12 (18.46%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 12 (18.46%) Security Architect
4 11 (16.92%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) Consultant
5 10 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 8 (12.31%) Security Consultant
8 7 (10.77%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) Python Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) AWS Architect
9 4 (6.15%) AWS Security Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.08%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.08%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.54%) JWT
3 1 (1.54%) OAuth
3 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.31%) PKI
2 17 (26.15%) Security Posture
3 15 (23.08%) Cloud Native
4 12 (18.46%) Management Information System
5 11 (16.92%) Blog
6 9 (13.85%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (10.77%) Hedge funds
8 6 (9.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (7.69%) Algorithms
10 4 (6.15%) Blockchain
10 4 (6.15%) Data Structures
11 3 (4.62%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (4.62%) Web3
12 2 (3.08%) ARM Cortex
12 2 (3.08%) CUDA
12 2 (3.08%) e-Learning
12 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (3.08%) Raspberry Pi
12 2 (3.08%) Verilog
12 2 (3.08%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Unix
2 7 (10.77%) Linux
3 2 (3.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.92%) Cloud Security
2 25 (38.46%) Security Architecture
3 24 (36.92%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (30.77%) AI
4 20 (30.77%) Threat Modelling
5 18 (27.69%) Collaborative Working
5 18 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (24.62%) Incident Response
7 14 (21.54%) Coaching
7 14 (21.54%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (21.54%) Zero Trust
8 13 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 13 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 13 (20.00%) RBAC
8 13 (20.00%) Red Team
8 13 (20.00%) Security Testing
9 12 (18.46%) SDLC
10 11 (16.92%) Information Security
10 11 (16.92%) Key Management
10 11 (16.92%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.85%) Python
2 13 (20.00%) Bash
3 11 (16.92%) Go
4 4 (6.15%) Rust
5 3 (4.62%) C++
6 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.54%) Perl
7 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (41.54%) Degree
2 24 (36.92%) Security Cleared
3 17 (26.15%) CISSP
4 14 (21.54%) DV Cleared
5 12 (18.46%) SC Cleared
6 10 (15.38%) HNC
6 10 (15.38%) HND
7 9 (13.85%) AWS Certification
7 9 (13.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (12.31%) CISM
8 8 (12.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (10.77%) CCSK
10 6 (9.23%) OSCP
11 5 (7.69%) Azure Certification
11 5 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (6.15%) PhD
12 4 (6.15%) Postgraduate
13 2 (3.08%) CEH
13 2 (3.08%) CESG Certified Professional
14 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (26.15%) PCI DSS
2 16 (24.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (24.62%) NIST
3 15 (23.08%) NCSC
4 13 (20.00%) GDPR
5 10 (15.38%) GRC
6 8 (12.31%) JSP 440
7 7 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 4 (6.15%) SOC 2
9 3 (4.62%) NIST 800
9 3 (4.62%) RMADS
10 2 (3.08%) Def Stans
11 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
11 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.08%) GPFS
1 2 (3.08%) Lustre
1 2 (3.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Terraform
2 9 (13.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.15%) Cilium
4 3 (4.62%) Ansible
4 3 (4.62%) CASB
4 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.08%) SELinux
6 1 (1.54%) QRadar
6 1 (1.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Google
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.62%) Splunk
3 3 (4.62%) Thales
4 2 (3.08%) IBM
4 2 (3.08%) Netskope
4 2 (3.08%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) Citrix
5 1 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.54%) Dell
5 1 (1.54%) Exabeam
5 1 (1.54%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.54%) Gemalto
5 1 (1.54%) Intel
5 1 (1.54%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.54%) Qualys
5 1 (1.54%) VMware