IPsec Contracts with Work from Home Options

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 406 519
Rank change year-on-year +93 +113 -63
Contract jobs citing IPsec 32 48 93
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.09% 1.69% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 67
10th Percentile £433 £338 £350
25th Percentile £466 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -26.20%
75th Percentile £547 £550 £618
90th Percentile £568 £813 £718
UK median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £18.98 £41.51 £22.15
25th Percentile £19.69 £70.03 £23.88
Median hourly rate £21.25 £78.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.93% +175.44% -46.23%
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.44 £39.50
90th Percentile £23.33 £81.00 £45.05
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £77.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -72.58% +74.16% +97.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,533 2,844 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.54% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,882 2,941
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £24.38 £57.50 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +19.69% +17.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

IPsec
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IPsec trend for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec.

IPsec daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IPsec over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

IPsec daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec.

IPsec hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.50%) Apache Solr
1 4 (12.50%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) GCP
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) OCI
3 2 (6.25%) PaaS
3 2 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (71.88%) Firewall
2 20 (62.50%) BGP
2 20 (62.50%) VPN
3 19 (59.38%) OSPF
4 12 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (37.50%) EIGRP
5 11 (34.38%) Network Security
6 9 (28.13%) WAN
7 8 (25.00%) DNS
7 8 (25.00%) LAN
7 8 (25.00%) SNMP
7 8 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (25.00%) Wireless
8 7 (21.88%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (21.88%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (21.88%) HSRP
8 7 (21.88%) NetScaler
8 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
9 6 (18.75%) MPLS
9 6 (18.75%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Couchbase
1 4 (12.50%) MySQL
1 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
General
1 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Network Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Implementation Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Network Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Citrix Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Network Support
6 1 (3.13%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Network Team Leader
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Jinja
2 4 (12.50%) JSON
2 4 (12.50%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (12.50%) YAML
3 3 (9.38%) LDAP
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
5 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
1 5 (15.63%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) PKI
4 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.25%) Shadow IT
5 1 (3.13%) IoT
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) CentOS
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Change Management
2 11 (34.38%) Migration
3 10 (31.25%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) ITIL
4 8 (25.00%) Network Management
5 7 (21.88%) ITSM
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Information Security
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (15.63%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
8 4 (12.50%) Microservices
8 4 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (12.50%) SDLC
8 4 (12.50%) Software Delivery
9 3 (9.38%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Perl
1 6 (18.75%) Python
1 6 (18.75%) Tcl
2 4 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (46.88%) CCNP
3 10 (31.25%) CCNA
3 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) BC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.25%) CCDP
4 2 (6.25%) CCIP
5 1 (3.13%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (12.50%) GDPR
3 4 (12.50%) HIPAA
3 4 (12.50%) NIST
4 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Firmware
2 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Ansible
2 4 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) Cisco
2 14 (43.75%) Palo Alto
3 9 (28.13%) Citrix
3 9 (28.13%) SolarWinds
4 5 (15.63%) Juniper
5 4 (12.50%) Google
6 3 (9.38%) Zscaler
7 2 (6.25%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 2 (6.25%) F5
7 2 (6.25%) Fortinet
7 2 (6.25%) Okta
7 2 (6.25%) Oracle
8 1 (3.13%) ADVA
8 1 (3.13%) Aruba
8 1 (3.13%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.13%) Nokia