Cryptography Contracts

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 452 542 690
Rank change year-on-year +90 +148 -95
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 127 142 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 90 83
10th Percentile £501 £425 £450
25th Percentile £613 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £617 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% +2.83% +22.45%
75th Percentile £756 £705 £700
90th Percentile £895 £825 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £617 £550
% change year-on-year +1.30% +12.18% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £59.73 £52.00
25th Percentile - £62.30 £54.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +20.17% -2.92%
75th Percentile - £72.24 £67.71
90th Percentile - £72.98 £70.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +21.74% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the UK 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +89 114 £666 +8.56% 58
UK excluding London +62 72 £625 +1.30% 38
Work from Home +144 65 £625 +4.17% 18
South East +48 51 £625 -3.10% 10
London +76 39 £725 +16.00% 26
North of England +44 16 £670 - 9
North West - 16 £670 - 4
South West -17 3 £725 +20.83% 11
Midlands +16 1 £750 +25.00% 3
West Midlands +9 1 £750 +25.00% 3
East of England +8 1 - - 2

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 2 (1.57%) Confluence
1 2 (1.57%) nginx
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (1.57%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 64 (50.39%) AWS
2 62 (48.82%) Azure
3 10 (7.87%) GCP
4 6 (4.72%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.15%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.15%) IaaS
6 4 (3.15%) PaaS
6 4 (3.15%) SaaS
6 4 (3.15%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.36%) Azure API Management
7 3 (2.36%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.57%) GitHub
8 2 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.57%) Kong
8 2 (1.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (31.50%) SSL
2 25 (19.69%) Network Security
3 10 (7.87%) Firewall
4 8 (6.30%) Internet
5 6 (4.72%) VPN
6 4 (3.15%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.79%) 4G
8 1 (0.79%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.94%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.15%) Big Data
3 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.57%) OLAP
3 2 (1.57%) OLTP
3 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (3.15%) JIRA
2 3 (2.36%) Git
2 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (21.26%) Finance
2 12 (9.45%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.87%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.09%) Banking
5 4 (3.15%) Financial Institution
5 4 (3.15%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.57%) Electronics
7 2 (1.57%) Military
7 2 (1.57%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.57%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.79%) Marketing
8 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (70.87%) Architect
2 32 (25.20%) Security Architect
3 14 (11.02%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.51%) Security Engineer
4 7 (5.51%) Senior
5 6 (4.72%) Blockchain Engineer
5 6 (4.72%) Lead
6 5 (3.94%) Consultant
6 5 (3.94%) Cryptography Engineer
7 4 (3.15%) Blockchain Architect
8 3 (2.36%) AWS Architect
8 3 (2.36%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (2.36%) Developer
8 3 (2.36%) Lead Architect
8 3 (2.36%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.57%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.57%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (1.57%) Senior Tester
9 2 (1.57%) Solutions Consultant
9 2 (1.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (33.86%) Web Services
2 9 (7.09%) Kafka
3 8 (6.30%) Smart Contracts
4 3 (2.36%) .NET
5 2 (1.57%) Apache Camel
5 2 (1.57%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (1.57%) J2EE
5 2 (1.57%) JWT
5 2 (1.57%) OAuth
5 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.57%) SOAP
5 2 (1.57%) Spring
5 2 (1.57%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.57%) Spring Integration
6 1 (0.79%) HTML
6 1 (0.79%) Node.js
6 1 (0.79%) OpenID
6 1 (0.79%) React
6 1 (0.79%) REST
6 1 (0.79%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 53 (41.73%) PKI
2 16 (12.60%) Blockchain
3 6 (4.72%) IoT
3 6 (4.72%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.94%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.94%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.94%) Web3
5 4 (3.15%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (3.15%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.36%) CBDC
7 2 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.57%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.57%) DataPower
7 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.60%) Linux
2 5 (3.94%) Windows
3 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.57%) zOS
4 1 (0.79%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.79%) CentOS
4 1 (0.79%) Debian
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.01%) Key Management
2 24 (18.90%) Security Architecture
3 22 (17.32%) Risk Management
4 21 (16.54%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (16.54%) Penetration Testing
5 20 (15.75%) Information Security
6 16 (12.60%) Cloud Security
6 16 (12.60%) Computer Science
7 15 (11.81%) Project Delivery
7 15 (11.81%) Service Delivery
8 14 (11.02%) Identity Access Management
9 13 (10.24%) Business Strategy
9 13 (10.24%) CI/CD
9 13 (10.24%) Threat Modelling
10 12 (9.45%) DevOps
10 12 (9.45%) IT Strategy
10 12 (9.45%) Technology Strategy
11 11 (8.66%) Application Security
11 11 (8.66%) OWASP
12 9 (7.09%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.45%) Java
2 11 (8.66%) Python
3 7 (5.51%) C++
4 3 (2.36%) C#
4 3 (2.36%) Clojure
4 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.36%) PHP
4 3 (2.36%) Ruby
5 1 (0.79%) Bash
5 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 72 (56.69%) Security Cleared
2 55 (43.31%) Degree
3 48 (37.80%) SC Cleared
4 36 (28.35%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.51%) CISM
5 7 (5.51%) CISSP
5 7 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.94%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.57%) CEH
8 2 (1.57%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.57%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.79%) CISA
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.90%) NIST
2 23 (18.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.51%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.36%) NCSC
5 2 (1.57%) COBIT
5 2 (1.57%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.79%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (37.80%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.09%) Docker
3 4 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.57%) Squid
6 1 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (3.94%) Terraform
3 2 (1.57%) HAProxy
3 2 (1.57%) Nessus
4 1 (0.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.79%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.79%) Grafana
4 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.79%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 10 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.51%) CyberArk
3 6 (4.72%) SAP
4 4 (3.15%) Centrify
4 4 (3.15%) Databricks
4 4 (3.15%) Google
4 4 (3.15%) Qualys
4 4 (3.15%) Unisys
4 4 (3.15%) VMware
5 3 (2.36%) Cisco
5 3 (2.36%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.36%) Splunk
6 2 (1.57%) F5
6 2 (1.57%) IBM
6 2 (1.57%) Oracle
6 2 (1.57%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.57%) TSYS
7 1 (0.79%) Juniper
7 1 (0.79%) Okta
7 1 (0.79%) Ping Identity