Cryptography Jobs in the Midlands

Cryptography (Cryptology)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Cryptography skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cryptography over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 300 293
Rank change year-on-year +43 -7 +37
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 3 8 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.042% 0.068% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.083% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £58,730 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £67,500 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year - +63.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile - £82,671 £47,160
90th Percentile - £86,403 £48,750
England median annual salary £54,793 £73,750 £66,550
% change year-on-year -25.70% +10.82% -10.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,564 9,674 9,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.89% 82.16% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,656 7,141 4,575
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the Midlands

Cryptography
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Cryptography in the Midlands

Cryptography
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +47 3 - - 2
Cryptography
England

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Asana
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) GDB
2 1 (33.33%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (33.33%) WinDbg
General
1 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) libvirt
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Key Management
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) CodeQL
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PMI Certification
1 2 (66.67%) PMP
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Postgraduate
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Xen