Cryptography Contracts in the South West

Cryptography (Cryptology)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 152 136
Rank change year-on-year +44 -16 +20
Contract jobs citing Cryptography 8 3 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.46% 0.091% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.11% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 20
10th Percentile £516 £460 £388
25th Percentile £533 £513 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.04% +32.43%
75th Percentile £603 £750 £725
90th Percentile £632 £840 £838
England median daily rate £503 £655 £614
% change year-on-year -23.28% +6.76% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.73
Median hourly rate - - £64.15
75th Percentile - - £70.77
90th Percentile - - £72.10
England median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £67.07
% change year-on-year -12.50% +19.27% +13.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,592 2,712 3,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.71% 82.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 1,704 2,225
10th Percentile £217 £260 £319
25th Percentile £363 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £687 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 380 295
10th Percentile £16.07 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £18.69
Median hourly rate £28.55 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.09% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £66.75 £70.25 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.36
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.42
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.87% +45.72%

Cryptography
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Cryptography as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Cryptography in the South West

Cryptography
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cryptography in the South West

Cryptography
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cryptography in the South West over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cryptography in the South West

Cryptography
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cryptography in the South West

Cryptography
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 June 2025. 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
Wiltshire +36 6 £585 -19.31% 2
Dorset - 1 £540 - 3
Gloucestershire - 1 £650 - 3
Cryptography
England

Cryptography
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) 4G
2 1 (12.50%) 5G
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) 802.1X
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
2 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (37.50%) Change Control
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) CISM
3 3 (37.50%) CISSP
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
1 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
1 3 (37.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) OPNET
2 1 (12.50%) Check_MK
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
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