Cryptography Jobs

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 699 714 752
Rank change year-on-year +15 +38 +84
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 143 173 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.22% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 114 125 121
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,353 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,515 £73,999
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -7.41% +18.40%
75th Percentile £91,813 £85,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £99,975 £101,185 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.17% -1.67% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cryptography over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England +8 134 £75,000 +7.14% 11
UK excluding London -55 71 £65,000 +10.17% 14
London +74 64 £90,000 +9.85% 2
Work from Home -5 51 £70,000 +12.00% 3
North of England -8 23 £70,000 +17.60%
Yorkshire +44 18 £70,000 +17.60%
East of England +3 15 £47,500 -26.36% 2
South West -2 14 £60,000 +0.80%
South East +10 10 £77,500 -35.42% 7
Scotland -40 6 £75,000 +26.00%
North West -10 5 £90,000 +51.19%
Midlands -39 3 £88,000 +111.24% 1
West Midlands -22 2 - - 1
East Midlands -27 1 £88,000 +111.24%

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.80%) Ethereum
3 4 (2.80%) Hyperledger
4 3 (2.10%) OpenZeppelin
5 2 (1.40%) Confluence
5 2 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.70%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.77%) Azure
2 33 (23.08%) AWS
3 13 (9.09%) GCP
4 7 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.40%) Apigee
5 2 (1.40%) Kong
5 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.70%) GitHub
6 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.70%) IaaS
6 1 (0.70%) PaaS
6 1 (0.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 65 (45.45%) Firewall
2 32 (22.38%) Network Security
3 27 (18.88%) DNS
4 22 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 12 (8.39%) VPN
6 11 (7.69%) Wireshark
7 9 (6.29%) TCP/IP
8 8 (5.59%) DHCP
9 5 (3.50%) Internet
10 3 (2.10%) IPFS
10 3 (2.10%) SSL
11 2 (1.40%) 4G
12 1 (0.70%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.70%) Multicast
12 1 (0.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.10%) Big Data
1 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.40%) OLAP
2 2 (1.40%) OLTP
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (1.40%) Power BI
2 2 (1.40%) Redis
3 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (7.69%) IDA Disassembler
2 9 (6.29%) JIRA
3 6 (4.20%) Git
3 6 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.10%) Hardhat
5 2 (1.40%) Apache Continuum
5 2 (1.40%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.70%) XCTest
General
1 27 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.48%) Finance
3 23 (16.08%) Law
4 15 (10.49%) Aerospace
5 11 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.90%) Banking
7 7 (4.90%) Legal
8 4 (2.80%) Marketing
9 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.40%) Games
10 2 (1.40%) Police
10 2 (1.40%) Retail
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) iGaming
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Military
11 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (16.78%) Architect
2 21 (14.69%) Lead
3 20 (13.99%) Security Architect
4 16 (11.19%) Security Engineer
4 16 (11.19%) Team Leader
5 12 (8.39%) Network Security Specialist
5 12 (8.39%) Network Specialist
5 12 (8.39%) Security Specialist
6 11 (7.69%) Consultant
6 11 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 11 (7.69%) Security Consultant
6 11 (7.69%) Security Researcher
7 10 (6.99%) Senior
8 9 (6.29%) Technical Architect
9 8 (5.59%) Analyst
9 8 (5.59%) IT Support
9 8 (5.59%) Security Technical Architect
10 7 (4.90%) IT Analyst
10 7 (4.90%) IT Security Analyst
10 7 (4.90%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.69%) Web Services
2 9 (6.29%) .NET
3 7 (4.90%) OAuth
3 7 (4.90%) OpenID
3 7 (4.90%) Smart Contracts
3 7 (4.90%) Spring
3 7 (4.90%) Spring Boot
3 7 (4.90%) web3js
4 5 (3.50%) RESTful
5 4 (2.80%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (2.80%) ERC20
5 4 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.80%) Truffle
6 3 (2.10%) Node.js
7 2 (1.40%) Apache Camel
7 2 (1.40%) IBM Integration Bus
7 2 (1.40%) J2EE
7 2 (1.40%) Kafka
7 2 (1.40%) SAML
7 2 (1.40%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.88%) PKI
2 19 (13.29%) Security Posture
3 16 (11.19%) Blockchain
4 13 (9.09%) Management Information System
5 12 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (6.29%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (5.59%) Replication
8 7 (4.90%) Data Centre
9 6 (4.20%) Algorithms
9 6 (4.20%) Onboarding
9 6 (4.20%) Web3
10 5 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (2.80%) Client/Server
11 4 (2.80%) Cyberattack
12 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (2.10%) NFT
13 2 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (1.40%) Digital Currency
13 2 (1.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.78%) Windows
2 18 (12.59%) Linux
3 16 (11.19%) Kali Linux
4 9 (6.29%) Apple iOS
5 8 (5.59%) Android
5 8 (5.59%) Windows 10
5 8 (5.59%) Windows Server
5 8 (5.59%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (31.47%) SIEM
3 37 (25.87%) Information Security
4 36 (25.17%) Incident Response
5 31 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (16.78%) Software Engineering
7 22 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
7 22 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
8 21 (14.69%) Vulnerability Management
9 19 (13.29%) ISMS
9 19 (13.29%) Project Management
10 18 (12.59%) Computer Science
10 18 (12.59%) Fintech
10 18 (12.59%) Migration
11 17 (11.89%) Identity Management
12 16 (11.19%) Risk Analysis
13 15 (10.49%) ITIL
13 15 (10.49%) Security Architecture
13 15 (10.49%) Threat Modelling
14 14 (9.79%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.28%) Python
2 24 (16.78%) C
3 23 (16.08%) C++
4 22 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.69%) Java
6 9 (6.29%) Bash
7 8 (5.59%) Go
8 7 (4.90%) Solidity
9 6 (4.20%) Rust
9 6 (4.20%) Scala
10 5 (3.50%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.10%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.70%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.70%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.70%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.70%) Ruby
12 1 (0.70%) Swift
12 1 (0.70%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 44 (30.77%) Degree
2 42 (29.37%) Security Cleared
3 31 (21.68%) CISSP
4 29 (20.28%) DV Cleared
5 17 (11.89%) CISM
6 15 (10.49%) CEH
7 14 (9.79%) Master's Degree
8 13 (9.09%) CREST Certified
9 10 (6.99%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (5.59%) CCSP
10 8 (5.59%) MCSA
10 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (5.59%) SC Cleared
11 7 (4.90%) AWS Certification
11 7 (4.90%) OSCP
12 6 (4.20%) CRISC
12 6 (4.20%) GCIH
12 6 (4.20%) GIAC
12 6 (4.20%) ISSMP
13 5 (3.50%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (9.79%) NIST
3 9 (6.29%) PCI DSS
4 8 (5.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 7 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 6 (4.20%) COBIT
6 6 (4.20%) GDPR
7 4 (2.80%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.80%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.29%) CASB
2 7 (4.90%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (4.20%) Ansible
3 6 (4.20%) CSIRT
4 5 (3.50%) Suricata
5 2 (1.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (19.58%) Cisco
2 20 (13.99%) Microsoft
3 19 (13.29%) Palo Alto
4 18 (12.59%) Juniper
5 17 (11.89%) CheckPoint
6 14 (9.79%) Blue Coat
6 14 (9.79%) Infoblox
7 13 (9.09%) Riverbed
8 8 (5.59%) Bloomberg
8 8 (5.59%) FactSet
8 8 (5.59%) MobileIron
8 8 (5.59%) Refinitiv
8 8 (5.59%) VMware
9 6 (4.20%) Alibaba
9 6 (4.20%) Google
10 5 (3.50%) Splunk
10 5 (3.50%) Thales
11 3 (2.10%) Citrix
11 3 (2.10%) Foundry
11 3 (2.10%) IBM