Cryptography Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cryptography skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cryptography over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 676 565 743
Rank change year-on-year -111 +178 -110
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 94 168 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.31% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 83 87 48
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £41,250 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -0.79% -4.00%
75th Percentile £74,375 £62,833 £66,875
90th Percentile £80,001 £76,316 £82,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,321 53,973 69,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.77% 95.48% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,680 28,676 41,266
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

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 2 June 2024.

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 2 June 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
North of England -26 31 £70,000 +17.60% 7
East of England +14 28 £56,500 -24.67% 2
Yorkshire +8 28 £70,000 +64.71% 4
South West -28 12 £60,000 +0.80% 10
South East -17 9 £65,000 -45.83% 10
Midlands -34 8 £67,500 +62.03% 3
East Midlands -10 6 £70,502 +69.24%
Scotland -69 6 £75,000 +26.00% 1
North West -18 3 £90,000 +51.19% 3
West Midlands -38 2 £67,500 +61.19% 3
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 (2.13%) IIS
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.06%) Hyperledger
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.06%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.11%) Azure
2 13 (13.83%) AWS
2 13 (13.83%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (6.38%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.06%) Apigee
4 1 (1.06%) Kong
4 1 (1.06%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 47 (50.00%) Firewall
2 28 (29.79%) Network Security
3 24 (25.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (13.83%) DNS
4 13 (13.83%) Wireshark
5 8 (8.51%) TCP/IP
6 6 (6.38%) Internet
6 6 (6.38%) LAN
6 6 (6.38%) WAN
7 5 (5.32%) VPN
8 3 (3.19%) 4G
9 1 (1.06%) 5G
9 1 (1.06%) Multicast
9 1 (1.06%) SSL
9 1 (1.06%) Wireless
9 1 (1.06%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.13%) Big Data
1 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.06%) OLAP
2 1 (1.06%) OLTP
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) IDA Disassembler
2 3 (3.19%) JIRA
3 2 (2.13%) Apache Continuum
3 2 (2.13%) Burp Suite
3 2 (2.13%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.06%) Metasploit
General
1 25 (26.60%) Aerospace
2 20 (21.28%) Law
3 10 (10.64%) Finance
4 9 (9.57%) Games
4 9 (9.57%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.26%) Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.13%) Military
7 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
8 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (29.79%) Lead
2 25 (26.60%) Team Leader
3 17 (18.09%) Network Specialist
4 13 (13.83%) Architect
5 12 (12.77%) Network Security Specialist
5 12 (12.77%) Security Specialist
6 11 (11.70%) Security Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Security Architect
8 7 (7.45%) Machine Learning Researcher
8 7 (7.45%) Security Researcher
9 6 (6.38%) Information Security Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Network Operations Specialist
11 3 (3.19%) Consultant
11 3 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 3 (3.19%) Security Consultant
11 3 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
12 2 (2.13%) Developer
12 2 (2.13%) Network Engineer
12 2 (2.13%) Network Security Engineer
12 2 (2.13%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.45%) PyTorch
1 7 (7.45%) TensorFlow
1 7 (7.45%) Web Services
2 2 (2.13%) OAuth
2 2 (2.13%) OpenID
2 2 (2.13%) SAML
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Camel
3 1 (1.06%) ERC20
3 1 (1.06%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (1.06%) J2EE
3 1 (1.06%) Kafka
3 1 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.06%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (1.06%) SOAP
3 1 (1.06%) Spring
3 1 (1.06%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.06%) Spring Integration
3 1 (1.06%) Truffle
3 1 (1.06%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (9.57%) Blockchain
3 9 (9.57%) Security Posture
4 8 (8.51%) Algorithms
5 7 (7.45%) Data Centre
5 7 (7.45%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.32%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (5.32%) SCADA
7 3 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.19%) PKI
8 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.13%) PMI
9 1 (1.06%) CESG
9 1 (1.06%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.06%) DataPower
9 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.83%) Kali Linux
1 13 (13.83%) Windows
2 6 (6.38%) Android
2 6 (6.38%) Apple iOS
3 5 (5.32%) Linux
4 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.06%) Unix
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (38.30%) Incident Response
3 31 (32.98%) SIEM
4 26 (27.66%) Information Security
5 23 (24.47%) Software Engineering
6 22 (23.40%) ISMS
7 21 (22.34%) Migration
8 19 (20.21%) Risk Analysis
9 18 (19.15%) Kalman Filter
9 18 (19.15%) Security Operations
9 18 (19.15%) Social Engineering
10 17 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (15.96%) Information Management
11 15 (15.96%) Project Management
12 14 (14.89%) Artificial Intelligence
12 14 (14.89%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (13.83%) Computer Science
13 13 (13.83%) Vulnerability Management
14 11 (11.70%) Zero Trust
15 10 (10.64%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.21%) Python
2 11 (11.70%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.45%) C
3 7 (7.45%) C++
4 3 (3.19%) SQL
5 1 (1.06%) Bash
5 1 (1.06%) C#
5 1 (1.06%) Java
5 1 (1.06%) Rust
5 1 (1.06%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 29 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.47%) DV Cleared
3 21 (22.34%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (20.21%) CISSP
5 18 (19.15%) Degree
6 10 (10.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (9.57%) CCDA
7 9 (9.57%) CCDP
7 9 (9.57%) Master's Degree
8 8 (8.51%) CCSP
8 8 (8.51%) CEH
8 8 (8.51%) SSCP
9 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
9 6 (6.38%) SANS
9 6 (6.38%) SC Cleared
10 5 (5.32%) Azure Certification
10 5 (5.32%) CISA
11 4 (4.26%) CISM
12 3 (3.19%) OSCP
13 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (22.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (18.09%) NIST
3 11 (11.70%) PCI DSS
4 7 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 7 (7.45%) NCSC
5 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.13%) GDPR
6 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 6 (6.38%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.45%) Nmap
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.32%) Suricata
4 3 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.13%) CSIRT
6 1 (1.06%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 32 (34.04%) Cisco
2 19 (20.21%) Juniper
2 19 (20.21%) Palo Alto
3 14 (14.89%) Blue Coat
3 14 (14.89%) CheckPoint
3 14 (14.89%) Infoblox
4 13 (13.83%) Riverbed
5 12 (12.77%) Splunk
6 11 (11.70%) Microsoft
7 6 (6.38%) Qualys
7 6 (6.38%) Rapid7
7 6 (6.38%) Thycotic
8 5 (5.32%) BT
9 2 (2.13%) Citrix
9 2 (2.13%) ForgeRock
9 2 (2.13%) Thales
9 2 (2.13%) VMware
10 1 (1.06%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.06%) LogRhythm
10 1 (1.06%) TSYS