Cryptography Contracts

Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cryptography skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cryptography over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 568 700
Rank change year-on-year +108 +132 -102
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 125 129 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 84 81
10th Percentile £505 £458 £450
25th Percentile £613 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £621 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% +3.50% +18.81%
75th Percentile £750 £715 £688
90th Percentile £903 £825 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £617 £550
% change year-on-year +1.30% +12.18% +1.85%
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 falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 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 12 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 +89 115 £660 +6.97% 57
UK excluding London +47 73 £625 +1.30% 37
Work from Home +147 62 £625 +4.17% 16
South East +55 51 £625 -3.10% 6
London +63 39 £725 +16.00% 21
North of England +31 17 £670 +21.58% 8
North West - 17 £670 - 3
West Midlands +13 2 £650 +8.33% 5
Midlands +9 2 £650 +8.33% 5
South West -23 2 £725 +20.83% 13
East of England - 1 - - 3

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 (1.60%) Confluence
1 2 (1.60%) nginx
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (1.60%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 64 (51.20%) AWS
2 61 (48.80%) Azure
3 10 (8.00%) GCP
4 6 (4.80%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.20%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.20%) IaaS
6 4 (3.20%) PaaS
6 4 (3.20%) SaaS
6 4 (3.20%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.40%) Azure API Management
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.60%) Apigee
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.60%) Kong
8 2 (1.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (32.00%) SSL
2 27 (21.60%) Network Security
3 10 (8.00%) Firewall
4 8 (6.40%) Internet
5 6 (4.80%) VPN
6 4 (3.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.20%) Big Data
3 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.60%) OLAP
3 2 (1.60%) OLTP
3 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) JIRA
2 3 (2.40%) Git
2 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (22.40%) Finance
2 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.40%) Banking
5 4 (3.20%) Financial Institution
5 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.60%) Electronics
7 2 (1.60%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.60%) Retail
8 1 (0.80%) Automotive
8 1 (0.80%) Marketing
8 1 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 89 (71.20%) Architect
2 31 (24.80%) Security Architect
3 14 (11.20%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.60%) Senior
5 6 (4.80%) Consultant
5 6 (4.80%) Lead
5 6 (4.80%) Security Engineer
6 5 (4.00%) Blockchain Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Blockchain Architect
7 4 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (3.20%) Cryptography Engineer
8 3 (2.40%) AWS Architect
8 3 (2.40%) Cloud Security Architect
8 3 (2.40%) Lead Architect
8 3 (2.40%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.40%) Security Consultant
9 2 (1.60%) Network Engineer
9 2 (1.60%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (1.60%) Senior Tester
9 2 (1.60%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (34.40%) Web Services
2 9 (7.20%) Kafka
3 6 (4.80%) Smart Contracts
4 4 (3.20%) .NET
5 2 (1.60%) Apache Camel
5 2 (1.60%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (1.60%) J2EE
5 2 (1.60%) JWT
5 2 (1.60%) OAuth
5 2 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.60%) SOAP
5 2 (1.60%) Spring
5 2 (1.60%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.60%) Spring Integration
6 1 (0.80%) LDAP
6 1 (0.80%) Node.js
6 1 (0.80%) OpenID
6 1 (0.80%) React
6 1 (0.80%) REST
6 1 (0.80%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 54 (43.20%) PKI
2 14 (11.20%) Blockchain
3 6 (4.80%) IoT
3 6 (4.80%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.00%) Web3
5 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.40%) CBDC
6 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.40%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.60%) DataPower
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.80%) Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Windows
3 2 (1.60%) zOS
4 1 (0.80%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.80%) CentOS
4 1 (0.80%) Debian
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (38.40%) Key Management
2 24 (19.20%) Security Architecture
3 23 (18.40%) Risk Management
4 22 (17.60%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (17.60%) Penetration Testing
5 20 (16.00%) Information Security
6 17 (13.60%) Cloud Security
6 17 (13.60%) Identity Access Management
7 15 (12.00%) Computer Science
7 15 (12.00%) Project Delivery
7 15 (12.00%) Service Delivery
8 13 (10.40%) CI/CD
8 13 (10.40%) Threat Modelling
9 12 (9.60%) Business Strategy
9 12 (9.60%) DevOps
9 12 (9.60%) IT Strategy
9 12 (9.60%) Technology Strategy
10 11 (8.80%) Application Security
10 11 (8.80%) OWASP
11 9 (7.20%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.80%) Java
2 9 (7.20%) Python
3 6 (4.80%) C++
4 3 (2.40%) C#
4 3 (2.40%) Clojure
4 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.40%) PHP
4 3 (2.40%) Ruby
5 1 (0.80%) Bash
5 1 (0.80%) C
5 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 71 (56.80%) Security Cleared
2 54 (43.20%) Degree
3 47 (37.60%) SC Cleared
4 36 (28.80%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.80%) CISM
6 6 (4.80%) CISSP
7 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.60%) CEH
9 2 (1.60%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.60%) CSSLP
9 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.80%) CISA
10 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.80%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.00%) NIST
2 23 (18.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.60%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.60%) COBIT
4 2 (1.60%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.60%) NCSC
5 1 (0.80%) GDPR
5 1 (0.80%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.80%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (38.40%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.20%) Docker
3 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.60%) Firmware
5 2 (1.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (4.00%) Terraform
3 2 (1.60%) HAProxy
3 2 (1.60%) Nessus
4 1 (0.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.80%) Grafana
4 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.80%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.60%) CyberArk
3 6 (4.80%) SAP
4 4 (3.20%) Centrify
4 4 (3.20%) Databricks
4 4 (3.20%) Google
4 4 (3.20%) Qualys
4 4 (3.20%) Unisys
4 4 (3.20%) VMware
5 2 (1.60%) Cisco
5 2 (1.60%) F5
5 2 (1.60%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.60%) IBM
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle
5 2 (1.60%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.60%) Splunk
5 2 (1.60%) Thales
5 2 (1.60%) TSYS
6 1 (0.80%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.80%) Ping Identity