Cryptography Contracts in London

Cryptography (Cryptology)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Cryptography skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cryptography over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 429 552
Rank change year-on-year +74 +123 -118
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 40 65 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.28% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 49 24
10th Percentile £455 £438 £464
25th Percentile £613 £538 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £617 £725
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -14.90% +45.00%
75th Percentile £850 £725 £753
90th Percentile £965 £841 £798
England median daily rate £666 £610 £650
% change year-on-year +9.18% -6.15% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Cryptography is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,492 23,515 35,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.89% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,111 16,974 26,028
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 266 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.25 £17.18
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.43 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.17 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% +0.46% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.38 £67.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in London

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in London.

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in London

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in London

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cryptography in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in London

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +51 5 £788 +17.36%
Cryptography
England

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (5.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) AWS
2 13 (32.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) Serverless
5 3 (7.50%) Snowflake
5 3 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) Internet
2 5 (12.50%) Network Security
3 3 (7.50%) Firewall
3 3 (7.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Big Data
1 3 (7.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (37.50%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.00%) Multimedia
6 2 (5.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Architect
2 11 (27.50%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Security Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Blockchain Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Blockchain Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Lead
7 2 (5.00%) Lead Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Sales Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Blockchain Architect
8 1 (2.50%) IT Security Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Kafka
1 3 (7.50%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (2.50%) JWT
2 1 (2.50%) LDAP
2 1 (2.50%) OAuth
2 1 (2.50%) OpenID
2 1 (2.50%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Blockchain
2 6 (15.00%) IoT
2 6 (15.00%) PKI
3 5 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 4 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (10.00%) Web3
5 3 (7.50%) CBDC
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
5 3 (7.50%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Alpine Linux
2 1 (2.50%) CentOS
2 1 (2.50%) Debian
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (27.50%) Threat Modelling
3 10 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 9 (22.50%) Application Security
4 9 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (22.50%) DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) Fintech
5 8 (20.00%) Data Science
5 8 (20.00%) Use Case
6 7 (17.50%) API Development
6 7 (17.50%) Identity Management
6 7 (17.50%) OWASP
6 7 (17.50%) Security Monitoring
7 6 (15.00%) Cloud Security
7 6 (15.00%) Security Operations
8 5 (12.50%) Patch Management
8 5 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
8 5 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 5 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) Python
2 3 (7.50%) C++
2 3 (7.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) Bash
3 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) Degree
3 4 (10.00%) CISM
3 4 (10.00%) CISSP
3 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.00%) CEH
4 2 (5.00%) CREST Certified
4 2 (5.00%) CSSLP
4 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.50%) CISA
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 4 (10.00%) NIST
4 2 (5.00%) COBIT
4 2 (5.00%) ISO 22301
5 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) HAProxy
3 2 (5.00%) Nessus
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) CyberArk
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Centrify
2 3 (7.50%) Databricks
2 3 (7.50%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.00%) Qualys
3 2 (5.00%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) Unisys
4 1 (2.50%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.50%) Thales