Cryptography Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 273 421 555
Rank change year-on-year +148 +134 -113
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 72 33 57
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 13 33
10th Percentile £524 £418 £399
25th Percentile £613 £446 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £808 £800
UK median daily rate £666 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +6.56% +4.17% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.64% -
75th Percentile - - £61.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year +14.29% +20.17% +4.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Cryptography
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cryptography trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cryptography.

Cryptography daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cryptography over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Cryptography daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cryptography.

Cryptography hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.78%) nginx
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 44 (61.11%) Azure
2 43 (59.72%) AWS
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.78%) GCP
3 2 (2.78%) GitHub
3 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.39%) Apigee
4 1 (1.39%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.39%) IaaS
4 1 (1.39%) Kong
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.39%) PaaS
4 1 (1.39%) SaaS
4 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (48.61%) SSL
2 13 (18.06%) Network Security
3 3 (4.17%) Firewall
3 3 (4.17%) VPN
4 2 (2.78%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.39%) 4G
5 1 (1.39%) 5G
5 1 (1.39%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.39%) OLAP
1 1 (1.39%) OLTP
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.94%) Finance
3 4 (5.56%) Automotive
3 4 (5.56%) Electronics
4 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Banking
4 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.78%) Multimedia
4 2 (2.78%) Retail
4 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.39%) Military
5 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (73.61%) Architect
2 11 (15.28%) Security Architect
3 7 (9.72%) Security Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Cryptography Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Blockchain Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Blockchain Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.17%) Senior
6 3 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Blockchain Developer
7 2 (2.78%) Developer
7 2 (2.78%) Network Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Consultant
8 1 (1.39%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Senior Developer
8 1 (1.39%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (48.61%) Web Services
2 5 (6.94%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (1.39%) .NET
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Camel
3 1 (1.39%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (1.39%) J2EE
3 1 (1.39%) JWT
3 1 (1.39%) Kafka
3 1 (1.39%) LDAP
3 1 (1.39%) OAuth
3 1 (1.39%) OpenID
3 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.39%) REST
3 1 (1.39%) SAML
3 1 (1.39%) SOAP
3 1 (1.39%) Spring
3 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.39%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 40 (55.56%) PKI
2 7 (9.72%) Blockchain
3 5 (6.94%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) DataPower
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Windows
2 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) Key Management
2 14 (19.44%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (15.28%) Information Security
3 11 (15.28%) Penetration Testing
3 11 (15.28%) Risk Management
4 10 (13.89%) Computer Science
4 10 (13.89%) Security Architecture
5 9 (12.50%) DevOps
6 7 (9.72%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (9.72%) Project Delivery
6 7 (9.72%) Service Delivery
7 6 (8.33%) Agile
7 6 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (6.94%) Business Strategy
8 5 (6.94%) Fintech
8 5 (6.94%) Software Engineering
8 5 (6.94%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (5.56%) Dynamic Code Analysis
9 4 (5.56%) Technology Strategy
9 4 (5.56%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.72%) Java
1 7 (9.72%) Python
2 5 (6.94%) C++
3 3 (4.17%) Clojure
3 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.39%) Bash
4 1 (1.39%) C#
4 1 (1.39%) PHP
4 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (63.89%) Security Cleared
2 40 (55.56%) Degree
3 31 (43.06%) SC Cleared
4 28 (38.89%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.56%) CISM
6 4 (5.56%) CISSP
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.78%) CEH
8 2 (2.78%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.78%) CSSLP
8 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (15.28%) NIST
3 5 (6.94%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.56%) Automotive SPICE
4 4 (5.56%) AUTOSAR
5 2 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.78%) COBIT
5 2 (2.78%) GDPR
5 2 (2.78%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.39%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.17%) Docker
3 2 (2.78%) Squid
4 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (2.78%) HAProxy
2 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.78%) Nessus
2 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) Check_MK
3 1 (1.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (6.94%) CyberArk
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.17%) Cisco
2 3 (4.17%) Fortinet
3 2 (2.78%) Centrify
3 2 (2.78%) Google
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle
3 2 (2.78%) Palo Alto
3 2 (2.78%) Qualys
4 1 (1.39%) IBM
4 1 (1.39%) Juniper
4 1 (1.39%) Okta
4 1 (1.39%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.39%) Splunk
4 1 (1.39%) TSYS
4 1 (1.39%) VMware