IPsec Contracts in the North West

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 132 174
Rank change year-on-year +9 +42 -33
Contract jobs citing IPsec 13 24 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.47% 0.75% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.53% 5.61% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 5
10th Percentile £463 £268 £323
25th Percentile £483 £288 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +47.14% -41.67% +45.45%
75th Percentile £515 £531 -
90th Percentile £519 £590 £630
England median daily rate £400 £513 £495
% change year-on-year -21.95% +3.54% -1.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 368 428 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.27% 13.29% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 305 345
10th Percentile £199 £288 £182
25th Percentile £320 £363 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile - £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.72 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -61.00%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £89.18 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the North West

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the North West

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the North West

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Cumbria - 13 £515 -
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) BGP
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 13 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
1 13 (100.00%) HSRP
1 13 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 13 (100.00%) OSPF
2 12 (92.31%) SNMP
2 12 (92.31%) Spanning Tree
2 12 (92.31%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (69.23%) Senior
2 9 (69.23%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) Jinja
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Change Management
1 13 (100.00%) ITIL
1 13 (100.00%) Network Management
2 12 (92.31%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Perl
1 12 (92.31%) Python
1 12 (92.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) CCNA
2 12 (92.31%) CCNP
2 12 (92.31%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
1 13 (100.00%) Citrix
1 13 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 13 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft