Cryptography (Cryptology)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 682 662 784
Rank change year-on-year -20 +122 -4
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 220 317 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.33% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 183 171 124
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,357 £45,750
25th Percentile £58,365 £47,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £66,123
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.70% +2.94%
75th Percentile £92,500 £81,928 £88,125
90th Percentile £122,000 £97,290 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.20% -0.79% -4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,026 95,219 153,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.30% 95.60% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,821 55,995 82,364
10th Percentile £29,079 £34,000 £33,695
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cryptography.

Salary trend for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cryptography over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cryptography in the UK

Cryptography
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cryptography within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England +10 212 £73,750 +7.64% 45
London +111 115 £90,000 +12.50% 15
UK excluding London -94 96 £65,000 +9.20% 32
Work from Home -41 76 £70,000 +17.60% 19
East of England +23 28 £56,500 -15.67% 4
North of England -29 28 £70,000 +25.53% 6
Yorkshire +15 25 £70,000 +64.71% 2
South East -1 15 £65,000 -45.83% 6
South West -27 11 £60,000 +0.80% 14
Midlands -31 8 £67,500 +62.83% 2
East Midlands -2 6 £70,502 +69.24% 1
Scotland -69 6 £75,000 +26.00% 2
North West -7 3 £90,000 +51.19% 4
West Midlands -21 2 £67,500 +63.64% 1

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 17 (7.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.82%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.82%) Hyperledger
3 4 (1.82%) OpenZeppelin
4 3 (1.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 26 (11.82%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 68 (30.91%) Azure
2 44 (20.00%) AWS
3 26 (11.82%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (9.55%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (8.64%) GCP
6 14 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.36%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (6.36%) Microsoft Purview
7 9 (4.09%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.73%) IaaS
8 6 (2.73%) PaaS
8 6 (2.73%) SaaS
9 1 (0.45%) Apigee
9 1 (0.45%) GitHub
9 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.45%) Kong
9 1 (0.45%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 87 (39.55%) Firewall
2 51 (23.18%) Network Security
3 39 (17.73%) DNS
4 33 (15.00%) TCP/IP
5 22 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 19 (8.64%) Wireshark
7 17 (7.73%) VPN
8 16 (7.27%) LAN
8 16 (7.27%) WAN
9 14 (6.36%) DHCP
10 7 (3.18%) Internet
11 4 (1.82%) IPFS
12 3 (1.36%) 4G
12 3 (1.36%) SSL
13 2 (0.91%) Wireless
13 2 (0.91%) Wireless Security
14 1 (0.45%) 5G
14 1 (0.45%) Multicast
14 1 (0.45%) SSH
14 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.09%) Power BI
2 3 (1.36%) Big Data
2 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.36%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.91%) Redis
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.45%) OLAP
4 1 (0.45%) OLTP
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (5.45%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.18%) JIRA
3 5 (2.27%) IDA Disassembler
4 4 (1.82%) Git
4 4 (1.82%) Hardhat
5 3 (1.36%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.91%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.91%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
General
1 46 (20.91%) Finance
2 30 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.36%) Aerospace
3 25 (11.36%) Law
4 13 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.09%) Banking
6 9 (4.09%) Games
7 8 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.27%) Legal
9 3 (1.36%) Retail
9 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.91%) Marketing
10 2 (0.91%) Military
10 2 (0.91%) Police
10 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (20.91%) Architect
2 41 (18.64%) Security Engineer
3 36 (16.36%) Lead
4 30 (13.64%) Security Architect
5 26 (11.82%) Team Leader
6 23 (10.45%) Technical Architect
7 20 (9.09%) Senior
8 17 (7.73%) Network Specialist
9 16 (7.27%) Security Technical Architect
10 15 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 12 (5.45%) Consultant
11 12 (5.45%) Cryptography Engineer
11 12 (5.45%) Network Security Specialist
11 12 (5.45%) Security Consultant
11 12 (5.45%) Security Specialist
12 11 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 11 (5.00%) Information Security Engineer
12 11 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
13 10 (4.55%) Analyst
14 8 (3.64%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.27%) .NET
1 16 (7.27%) Web Services
2 12 (5.45%) web3js
3 9 (4.09%) Smart Contracts
4 8 (3.64%) Middleware
4 8 (3.64%) OAuth
5 7 (3.18%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.18%) TensorFlow
6 6 (2.73%) OpenID
7 5 (2.27%) ERC20
7 5 (2.27%) Spring
7 5 (2.27%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.27%) Truffle
8 4 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (1.82%) Node.js
8 4 (1.82%) RESTful
9 3 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.91%) JWT
10 2 (0.91%) SAML
11 1 (0.45%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 59 (26.82%) PKI
2 33 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 27 (12.27%) Blockchain
4 19 (8.64%) Security Operations Centre
5 17 (7.73%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (6.82%) Security Posture
7 14 (6.36%) Replication
8 11 (5.00%) Algorithms
8 11 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (5.00%) Web3
9 9 (4.09%) Virtual Team
10 8 (3.64%) Data Centre
11 7 (3.18%) Cyberattack
11 7 (3.18%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (2.73%) Onboarding
12 6 (2.73%) Operational Technology
13 5 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (2.27%) IoT
13 5 (2.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 52 (23.64%) Windows
2 33 (15.00%) Linux
3 32 (14.55%) Android
3 32 (14.55%) Apple iOS
4 15 (6.82%) Windows Server
5 14 (6.36%) Windows 10
5 14 (6.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (5.45%) Kali Linux
7 3 (1.36%) Unix
7 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.91%) Debian
8 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (60.45%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (27.27%) Information Security
3 58 (26.36%) SIEM
4 47 (21.36%) Vulnerability Management
5 45 (20.45%) Incident Response
6 39 (17.73%) Data Loss Prevention
7 38 (17.27%) Software Engineering
8 35 (15.91%) ITIL
8 35 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (14.55%) DevOps
9 32 (14.55%) Kalman Filter
10 29 (13.18%) Cloud Security
10 29 (13.18%) Identity Access Management
11 27 (12.27%) Security Operations
12 25 (11.36%) Computer Science
12 25 (11.36%) Security Architecture
13 23 (10.45%) Agile
13 23 (10.45%) Identity Management
13 23 (10.45%) Security Management
14 22 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 57 (25.91%) Python
2 39 (17.73%) PowerShell
3 26 (11.82%) C
4 16 (7.27%) Rust
5 14 (6.36%) C++
6 13 (5.91%) Java
7 9 (4.09%) Go
8 8 (3.64%) Bash
8 8 (3.64%) Solidity
9 6 (2.73%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.27%) Scala
11 4 (1.82%) C#
11 4 (1.82%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.82%) SQL
11 4 (1.82%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.91%) Dart
12 2 (0.91%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.91%) PHP
12 2 (0.91%) Ruby
12 2 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 67 (30.45%) Degree
2 52 (23.64%) CISSP
3 42 (19.09%) Security Cleared
4 32 (14.55%) Cisco Certification
5 30 (13.64%) CEH
6 26 (11.82%) CISM
7 25 (11.36%) DV Cleared
8 24 (10.91%) Master's Degree
9 19 (8.64%) CCSP
9 19 (8.64%) CREST Certified
10 18 (8.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 16 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (7.27%) SSCP
12 14 (6.36%) MCSA
12 14 (6.36%) SANS
13 12 (5.45%) CRISC
13 12 (5.45%) GIAC
13 12 (5.45%) ISSMP
13 12 (5.45%) SC Cleared
14 9 (4.09%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (19.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (14.55%) NIST
3 30 (13.64%) PCI DSS
4 18 (8.18%) COBIT
5 13 (5.91%) Accessibility
6 9 (4.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 7 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (3.18%) NCSC
8 6 (2.73%) GDPR
9 4 (1.82%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 17 (7.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (7.27%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.36%) Docker
4 3 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (7.27%) Nmap
2 14 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (5.45%) Ansible
4 9 (4.09%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (3.18%) CASB
6 5 (2.27%) CSIRT
6 5 (2.27%) Suricata
7 2 (0.91%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.91%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.45%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 52 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 49 (22.27%) Cisco
3 20 (9.09%) Splunk
4 19 (8.64%) Juniper
4 19 (8.64%) Palo Alto
5 18 (8.18%) CheckPoint
6 17 (7.73%) VMware
7 14 (6.36%) Bloomberg
7 14 (6.36%) Blue Coat
7 14 (6.36%) FactSet
7 14 (6.36%) Infoblox
7 14 (6.36%) MobileIron
7 14 (6.36%) Qualys
7 14 (6.36%) Rapid7
7 14 (6.36%) Refinitiv
7 14 (6.36%) Thycotic
8 13 (5.91%) Riverbed
9 12 (5.45%) Alibaba
9 12 (5.45%) Google
10 7 (3.18%) Citrix