Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IPsec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IPsec over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 701 719 949
Rank change year-on-year +18 +230 -206
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 214 235 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.58% 1.52% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 138 107 226
10th Percentile £26,700 £34,425 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £53,563 £58,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £49,625 £53,500
% change year-on-year -29.47% -7.24% -10.83%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +46 173 £47,500 -9.52% 39
UK excluding London -38 156 £35,000 -29.47% 23
Work from Home +132 106 £47,500 -9.52% 33
London +148 51 £50,000 -13.04% 17
Midlands +14 48 £27,400 -39.11% 6
West Midlands +38 38 £27,400 -39.11% 5
North of England +36 32 £35,000 -22.22% 5
South East -30 31 £53,000 +0.95% 7
North West +17 27 £35,000 -39.13% 4
Scotland -44 22 £33,250 - 4
South West -22 16 £30,000 -44.83%
East Midlands -24 10 £45,000 - 1
Yorkshire +67 8 £62,500 +19.05% 1
Wales +5 7 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +16 5 - -
East of England -4 4 £62,500 +4.17% 1
North East -11 3 £62,500 +66.67%

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 54 (25.23%) Apache
2 9 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.47%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (28.04%) Azure
2 56 (26.17%) Amazon S3
3 19 (8.88%) AWS
4 15 (7.01%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.21%) OneDrive
7 8 (3.74%) IaaS
8 6 (2.80%) GCP
9 5 (2.34%) AWS Direct Connect
9 5 (2.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.87%) PaaS
11 2 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.93%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.93%) OpenDNS
11 2 (0.93%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 169 (78.97%) VPN
2 158 (73.83%) Firewall
3 94 (43.93%) WAN
4 71 (33.18%) BGP
5 69 (32.24%) LAN
6 65 (30.37%) DNS
7 64 (29.91%) SNMP
8 61 (28.50%) OSPF
9 60 (28.04%) MPLS
10 58 (27.10%) DHCP
11 57 (26.64%) Internet
12 45 (21.03%) Wireless
13 41 (19.16%) VLAN
14 38 (17.76%) Wi-Fi
15 35 (16.36%) SSL
16 32 (14.95%) TCP/IP
17 22 (10.28%) IPv4
17 22 (10.28%) IPv6
18 21 (9.81%) EIGRP
18 21 (9.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (25.23%) Elasticsearch
1 54 (25.23%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.80%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.47%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 67 (31.31%) Finance
2 22 (10.28%) Social Skills
3 17 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.74%) Legal
5 7 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.34%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.87%) Aviation
7 4 (1.87%) Avionics
8 3 (1.40%) Billing
8 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Law
9 2 (0.93%) Retail
9 2 (0.93%) Welsh Language
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (36.45%) Network Engineer
2 56 (26.17%) Consultant
3 54 (25.23%) NetApp Consultant
4 17 (7.94%) Senior
5 15 (7.01%) WAN Engineer
6 14 (6.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 14 (6.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 13 (6.07%) Network Support
8 12 (5.61%) 3rd Line Support
9 10 (4.67%) Architect
9 10 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.67%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.67%) Technical Specialist
10 8 (3.74%) Network Technician
11 7 (3.27%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 7 (3.27%) Infrastructure Team Leader
11 7 (3.27%) Lead
11 7 (3.27%) Senior Network Engineer
11 7 (3.27%) Systems Architect
11 7 (3.27%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.70%) RabbitMQ
2 54 (25.23%) YAML
3 23 (10.75%) 802.1X
4 7 (3.27%) HTML
4 7 (3.27%) XML
5 2 (0.93%) LAMP
5 2 (0.93%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.47%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.47%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 96 (44.86%) Data Centre
2 33 (15.42%) PKI
3 10 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.21%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.34%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.34%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.87%) Replication
7 4 (1.87%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 76 (35.51%) Linux
2 71 (33.18%) Windows
3 54 (25.23%) Data ONTAP
4 17 (7.94%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.74%) Unix
6 6 (2.80%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.34%) Android
7 5 (2.34%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.93%) VMS
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (32.71%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (28.50%) Project Management
3 56 (26.17%) Storage Management
4 54 (25.23%) Actionable Insight
4 54 (25.23%) Infrastructure Management
4 54 (25.23%) Project Planning
4 54 (25.23%) Release Management
5 23 (10.75%) Mentoring
6 20 (9.35%) Load Balancing
7 19 (8.88%) ITIL
8 17 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (7.94%) Roadmaps
9 15 (7.01%) Customer Service
9 15 (7.01%) Network Management
10 14 (6.54%) Information Security
11 13 (6.07%) Capacity Planning
11 13 (6.07%) Network Monitoring
12 12 (5.61%) Computer Science
12 12 (5.61%) Network Design
12 12 (5.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.24%) Python
2 14 (6.54%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.87%) SQL
4 1 (0.47%) Go
4 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 61 (28.50%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (22.90%) Security Cleared
3 39 (18.22%) SC Cleared
4 35 (16.36%) CCNA
5 28 (13.08%) CCNP
6 13 (6.07%) Degree
7 6 (2.80%) A+ Certification
7 6 (2.80%) CCIE
8 5 (2.34%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (2.34%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.34%) GIAC
8 5 (2.34%) JNCIE
8 5 (2.34%) MCSA
8 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.40%) CCDA
10 3 (1.40%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.93%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.27%) SLA
3 5 (2.34%) NCSC
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (28.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 58 (27.10%) Docker
3 22 (10.28%) Active Directory
4 11 (5.14%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.93%) pfSense
6 2 (0.93%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (29.44%) Ansible
2 57 (26.64%) Kubernetes
3 54 (25.23%) Prometheus
3 54 (25.23%) vCenter Server
4 10 (4.67%) Puppet
5 8 (3.74%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.34%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (0.93%) Backup Exec
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.93%) Grafana
7 2 (0.93%) Nessus
7 2 (0.93%) Terraform
7 2 (0.93%) WhatsUp Gold
7 2 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (35.05%) Palo Alto
2 65 (30.37%) VMware
3 64 (29.91%) Juniper
4 60 (28.04%) Cisco
5 54 (25.23%) NetApp
5 54 (25.23%) Red Hat
5 54 (25.23%) SolidFire
6 25 (11.68%) Fortinet
7 22 (10.28%) Microsoft
8 17 (7.94%) F5
8 17 (7.94%) SolarWinds
9 11 (5.14%) Meraki
10 9 (4.21%) Arista
10 9 (4.21%) Google
11 8 (3.74%) Tufin
11 8 (3.74%) Veeam
12 7 (3.27%) Dell
13 6 (2.80%) HP
14 5 (2.34%) CheckPoint
15 4 (1.87%) Citrix