Cryptography Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 677 584
Rank change year-on-year +205 -93 +155
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 105 94 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 74 82 89
10th Percentile £25,313 £46,250 £37,875
25th Percentile - £55,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% +9.20% -0.79%
75th Percentile - £75,313 £62,833
90th Percentile £73,845 £80,001 £76,316
UK median annual salary £54,793 £73,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -25.70% +13.46% -2.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cryptography in the UK excluding London

Cryptography
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England +88 67 £54,793 -21.72% 92
North West +69 63 £54,793 -39.12% 55
Scotland +124 12 £25,625 -65.83% 23
South East +90 11 £60,000 -7.69% 84
South West +99 6 £80,000 +33.33% 49
Yorkshire +36 4 £25,625 -63.39% 28
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 7
Midlands +81 3 - - 71
West Midlands +59 3 - - 41
East of England +21 2 £50,000 -11.50% 59
Cryptography
UK

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.90%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.29%) Azure
2 14 (13.33%) AWS
3 9 (8.57%) GCP
4 8 (7.62%) IaaS
4 8 (7.62%) PaaS
5 2 (1.90%) Asana
6 1 (0.95%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) Network Security
2 9 (8.57%) Firewall
3 6 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.81%) HTTP
4 4 (3.81%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.90%) Internet
5 2 (1.90%) SSL
5 2 (1.90%) VPN
6 1 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.95%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.95%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.95%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Burp Suite
1 2 (1.90%) JIRA
1 2 (1.90%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.95%) GDB
2 1 (0.95%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (0.95%) WinDbg
General
1 76 (72.38%) Social Skills
2 61 (58.10%) Avionics
2 61 (58.10%) Influencing Skills
3 15 (14.29%) Finance
4 10 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Banking
5 4 (3.81%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Legal
8 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (74.29%) Senior
2 61 (58.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 61 (58.10%) Systems Engineer
3 10 (9.52%) Security Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) Technologist
5 8 (7.62%) Auditor
5 8 (7.62%) Security Auditor
5 8 (7.62%) Senior Auditor
6 5 (4.76%) Architect
7 4 (3.81%) Mobile Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Senior Security Engineer
8 3 (2.86%) Security Architect
9 2 (1.90%) AWS Architect
9 2 (1.90%) AWS Security Architect
9 2 (1.90%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (1.90%) Information Assurance Specialist
9 2 (1.90%) Information Specialist
9 2 (1.90%) Research Engineer
9 2 (1.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 2 (1.90%) Senior Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) Middleware
2 2 (1.90%) Web Services
3 1 (0.95%) libvirt
3 1 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (5.71%) PKI
4 4 (3.81%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.86%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.90%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Clustering
7 1 (0.95%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.81%) Android
1 4 (3.81%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.95%) Linux
3 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (65.71%) Coaching
2 63 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
3 61 (58.10%) Customer Requirements
3 61 (58.10%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 61 (58.10%) Systems Engineering
4 27 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (19.05%) Risk Management
6 16 (15.24%) Information Security
7 14 (13.33%) Mathematics
8 11 (10.48%) DevOps
8 11 (10.48%) Risk Assessment
9 10 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (8.57%) Computer Science
10 9 (8.57%) Fintech
10 9 (8.57%) Key Management
10 9 (8.57%) Line Management
11 8 (7.62%) CI/CD
11 8 (7.62%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (7.62%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.38%) C++
2 10 (9.52%) C
3 7 (6.67%) Python
4 6 (5.71%) Java
5 5 (4.76%) Objective-C
5 5 (4.76%) Rust
6 4 (3.81%) Go
6 4 (3.81%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.86%) Bash
7 3 (2.86%) C#
8 2 (1.90%) Solidity
9 1 (0.95%) CodeQL
9 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.95%) Perl
9 1 (0.95%) PHP
9 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.95%) SQL
9 1 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 87 (82.86%) Degree
2 61 (58.10%) HNC
2 61 (58.10%) HND
3 6 (5.71%) CISSP
3 6 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.81%) CEH
5 4 (3.81%) CISM
5 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.81%) PhD
6 2 (1.90%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (1.90%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.90%) GIAC
6 2 (1.90%) ISSAP
6 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.90%) PMP
6 2 (1.90%) SANS
7 1 (0.95%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (6.67%) NIST
2 4 (3.81%) GDPR
3 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.86%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.90%) COBIT
4 2 (1.90%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) Nmap
2 1 (0.95%) Istio
2 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft
1 2 (1.90%) Thales
2 1 (0.95%) Google