Cryptography Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cryptography (Cryptology)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 168 - 229
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 3 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.066% - 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% - 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £65,000
25th Percentile £66,250 - £76,250
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
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,492 2,767 4,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 76.63% 94.02% 86.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,073 1,194 3,626
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,088
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,525 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £66,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,000 £82,500
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 the Thames Valley

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

Cryptography job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cryptography
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cryptography.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cryptography

Cryptography
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 March 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
Berkshire - 3 £67,500 - 7
Cryptography
South East

Cryptography
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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