Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IPsec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IPsec over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 567 644
Rank change year-on-year +172 +77 -54
Contract jobs citing IPsec 206 149 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.73% 2.04% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 65 149
10th Percentile £268 £313 £360
25th Percentile £325 £376 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -11.89%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £638
90th Percentile £610 £823 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £419 £450
% change year-on-year -10.45% -6.94% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 8
10th Percentile £19.93 £38.22 £21.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £62.00 £24.94
Median hourly rate £24.00 £77.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.03% +112.33% +87.18%
75th Percentile £35.44 £80.25 £47.63
90th Percentile £54.68 £82.62 £49.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £63.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.16% +42.09% +169.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IPsec is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,525 7,311 9,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,306 4,755 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £240 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 473 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IPsec over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +178 198 £400 -23.81% 34
UK excluding London +114 138 £375 -10.45% 19
Midlands +100 93 £350 -17.65% 7
West Midlands +83 93 £350 -17.65% 7
London +124 62 £525 -23.64% 17
Work from Home +107 34 £515 +8.42% 15
South East +15 20 £400 -22.89% 4
North of England +22 14 £514 +46.79% 3
North West +19 14 £514 +46.79% 3
South West +23 6 £504 - 1
Scotland - 4 £538 - 3
Wales +13 1 - -

IPsec
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 4 (1.94%) Apache Solr
1 4 (1.94%) MQSeries
1 4 (1.94%) nginx
2 2 (0.97%) IIS
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.68%) Azure
2 18 (8.74%) AWS
3 12 (5.83%) GCP
4 10 (4.85%) OCI
4 10 (4.85%) SaaS
5 7 (3.40%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.91%) PaaS
7 4 (1.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.46%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.97%) IaaS
10 1 (0.49%) GitHub
10 1 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.49%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 159 (77.18%) BGP
2 128 (62.14%) MPLS
3 121 (58.74%) WAN
4 117 (56.80%) VPN
5 96 (46.60%) Firewall
6 75 (36.41%) OSPF
7 56 (27.18%) Junos
8 48 (23.30%) LAN
9 42 (20.39%) Cisco ASA
10 39 (18.93%) Wireless
11 31 (15.05%) HSRP
12 28 (13.59%) EIGRP
13 27 (13.11%) DNS
14 24 (11.65%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (10.68%) Spanning Tree
16 21 (10.19%) Cisco Firepower
16 21 (10.19%) SNMP
17 19 (9.22%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (9.22%) SSL
17 19 (9.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.94%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.94%) MySQL
1 4 (1.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.94%) Git
2 3 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
General
1 31 (15.05%) Public Sector
2 18 (8.74%) Finance
3 14 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.80%) Social Skills
4 7 (3.40%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.94%) Banking
5 4 (1.94%) Legal
6 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.97%) Aerospace
7 2 (0.97%) Aviation
7 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Advertising
8 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 108 (52.43%) Network Engineer
2 42 (20.39%) WAN Engineer
3 39 (18.93%) Network Support
4 30 (14.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 28 (13.59%) 3rd Line Support
6 25 (12.14%) Senior
7 22 (10.68%) Senior Network Engineer
8 19 (9.22%) Support Engineer
9 17 (8.25%) Network Specialist
10 16 (7.77%) 2nd Line Support
11 14 (6.80%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 12 (5.83%) Network Support Engineer
13 11 (5.34%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
13 11 (5.34%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
13 11 (5.34%) Architect
13 11 (5.34%) Cisco Engineer
13 11 (5.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 10 (4.85%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 9 (4.37%) Network Architect
16 7 (3.40%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.83%) 802.1X
1 12 (5.83%) Jinja
2 7 (3.40%) LDAP
3 4 (1.94%) JSON
3 4 (1.94%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (1.94%) SAML
3 4 (1.94%) YAML
4 3 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.97%) Web Services
6 1 (0.49%) OAuth
6 1 (0.49%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.49%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 94 (45.63%) PKI
2 35 (16.99%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.88%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.40%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.97%) Shadow IT
9 1 (0.49%) Clustering
9 1 (0.49%) IoT
9 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.80%) Linux
2 9 (4.37%) Unix
3 5 (2.43%) Windows
4 4 (1.94%) CentOS
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (25.24%) Load Balancing
2 36 (17.48%) Change Management
3 31 (15.05%) Network Design
4 28 (13.59%) Migration
5 25 (12.14%) ITIL
6 24 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (8.74%) DevOps
8 18 (8.74%) ITSM
9 15 (7.28%) Agile
10 14 (6.80%) Network Management
10 14 (6.80%) Threat Management
11 12 (5.83%) Kalman Filter
12 11 (5.34%) Configuration Management
13 9 (4.37%) Incident Management
14 8 (3.88%) Roadmaps
14 8 (3.88%) Root Cause Analysis
14 8 (3.88%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
14 8 (3.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 7 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.71%) Python
2 15 (7.28%) Perl
3 12 (5.83%) Tcl
4 4 (1.94%) PHP
4 4 (1.94%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 119 (57.77%) Security Cleared
2 65 (31.55%) SC Cleared
3 59 (28.64%) Cisco Certification
4 52 (25.24%) CCNP
5 38 (18.45%) CCNA
6 8 (3.88%) CCIE
7 6 (2.91%) Degree
8 5 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.43%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.43%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.46%) BC Cleared
9 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.46%) CCDP
9 3 (1.46%) CCIP
9 3 (1.46%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.37%) SLA
2 7 (3.40%) QA
3 4 (1.94%) GDPR
3 4 (1.94%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (9.22%) Firmware
2 8 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.94%) Samba
6 1 (0.49%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (9.22%) Ansible
2 18 (8.74%) FortiGate
3 13 (6.31%) Terraform
4 7 (3.40%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (2.43%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (0.97%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 127 (61.65%) Juniper
2 91 (44.17%) Cisco
3 50 (24.27%) Palo Alto
4 27 (13.11%) SolarWinds
5 22 (10.68%) F5
5 22 (10.68%) Fortinet
6 16 (7.77%) Citrix
7 14 (6.80%) Microsoft
8 13 (6.31%) CheckPoint
9 12 (5.83%) Infoblox
10 11 (5.34%) Extreme Networks
11 9 (4.37%) Google
12 7 (3.40%) Arista
13 6 (2.91%) VMware
14 5 (2.43%) Nokia
14 5 (2.43%) Oracle
14 5 (2.43%) Zscaler
15 4 (1.94%) Red Hat
16 3 (1.46%) Alcatel-Lucent
16 3 (1.46%) Forcepoint