IPsec Contracts in the North of England

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 190 235
Rank change year-on-year +21 +45 -47
Contract jobs citing IPsec 15 23 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.40% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.64% 3.48% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 6
10th Percentile £426 £266 £325
25th Percentile £463 £288 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £350 £513
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% -31.71% +24.24%
75th Percentile £515 £516 £594
90th Percentile £518 £620 £625
England median daily rate £400 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 568 660 876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.10% 11.56% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 450 608
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £607 £574 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 27
10th Percentile £13.31 - £11.01
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% +2.86%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.26
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £48.82
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +18 15 £513 +51.85% 2
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England

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) Firewall
2 13 (86.67%) BGP
2 13 (86.67%) Cisco ASA
2 13 (86.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 13 (86.67%) Cisco ISE
2 13 (86.67%) EIGRP
2 13 (86.67%) HSRP
2 13 (86.67%) NetScaler
2 13 (86.67%) OSPF
2 13 (86.67%) SNMP
2 13 (86.67%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (80.00%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
4 1 (6.67%) LAN
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.67%) SSH
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Network Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) Senior
2 9 (60.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (6.67%) IT Technician
4 1 (6.67%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) Jinja
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Change Management
2 13 (86.67%) ITIL
2 13 (86.67%) Network Management
3 12 (80.00%) DevOps
3 12 (80.00%) ITSM
4 1 (6.67%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Perl
1 12 (80.00%) Python
1 12 (80.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) CCNA
1 13 (86.67%) CCNP
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (86.67%) SC Cleared
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Cisco
2 13 (86.67%) Citrix
2 13 (86.67%) Palo Alto
2 13 (86.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft