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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 570 633
Rank change year-on-year +177 +63 -61
Contract jobs citing IPsec 211 149 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.76% 2.02% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 69 148
10th Percentile £263 £313 £343
25th Percentile £325 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £638
90th Percentile £607 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +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 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 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
England +189 202 £400 -21.95% 27
UK excluding London +123 141 £375 -16.67% 15
Midlands +96 96 £350 -17.65% 6
West Midlands +95 96 £350 -17.65% 6
London +114 63 £525 -4.55% 13
Work from Home +110 35 £515 +8.42% 26
South East +19 21 £400 -22.89% 4
North of England +20 13 £515 +37.33% 1
North West +5 13 £515 +47.14% 1
South West +22 6 £504 - 2
Scotland +36 4 £538 -10.42% 2
Wales +14 1 - - 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 (1.90%) Apache Solr
1 4 (1.90%) MQSeries
1 4 (1.90%) nginx
2 2 (0.95%) IIS
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.37%) Azure
2 19 (9.00%) AWS
3 12 (5.69%) GCP
4 10 (4.74%) OCI
4 10 (4.74%) SaaS
5 7 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.84%) PaaS
7 4 (1.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.42%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.95%) IaaS
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.95%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.47%) GitHub
10 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 162 (76.78%) BGP
2 131 (62.09%) MPLS
3 125 (59.24%) WAN
4 116 (54.98%) VPN
5 97 (45.97%) Firewall
6 75 (35.55%) OSPF
7 55 (26.07%) Junos
8 49 (23.22%) LAN
9 42 (19.91%) Cisco ASA
10 39 (18.48%) Wireless
11 31 (14.69%) HSRP
12 29 (13.74%) DNS
13 28 (13.27%) EIGRP
14 25 (11.85%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (10.43%) Spanning Tree
16 21 (9.95%) Cisco Firepower
16 21 (9.95%) SNMP
17 19 (9.00%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (9.00%) SSL
17 19 (9.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.90%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.90%) MySQL
1 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Git
2 3 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
General
1 31 (14.69%) Public Sector
2 18 (8.53%) Finance
3 15 (7.11%) Social Skills
4 14 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.79%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.90%) Banking
6 4 (1.90%) Legal
7 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.95%) Aviation
8 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Advertising
9 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (49.76%) Network Engineer
2 43 (20.38%) WAN Engineer
3 40 (18.96%) Network Support
4 28 (13.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 26 (12.32%) 3rd Line Support
6 25 (11.85%) Senior
7 22 (10.43%) Senior Network Engineer
8 19 (9.00%) 2nd Line Support
9 17 (8.06%) Network Specialist
9 17 (8.06%) Support Engineer
10 14 (6.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Architect
11 11 (5.21%) Cisco Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 10 (4.74%) Network Support Engineer
13 9 (4.27%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
13 9 (4.27%) Network Architect
14 8 (3.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 7 (3.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.69%) 802.1X
1 12 (5.69%) Jinja
2 7 (3.32%) LDAP
3 4 (1.90%) JSON
3 4 (1.90%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (1.90%) SAML
3 4 (1.90%) YAML
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.95%) Web Services
6 1 (0.47%) OAuth
6 1 (0.47%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 98 (46.45%) PKI
2 35 (16.59%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.32%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.95%) Shadow IT
9 1 (0.47%) Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) IoT
9 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.64%) Linux
2 9 (4.27%) Unix
3 5 (2.37%) Windows
4 4 (1.90%) CentOS
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (24.17%) Load Balancing
2 35 (16.59%) Change Management
3 28 (13.27%) Migration
3 28 (13.27%) Network Design
4 25 (11.85%) ITIL
4 25 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (9.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (8.53%) DevOps
6 18 (8.53%) ITSM
7 15 (7.11%) Agile
8 14 (6.64%) Network Management
8 14 (6.64%) Threat Management
9 12 (5.69%) Incident Management
9 12 (5.69%) Kalman Filter
10 11 (5.21%) Configuration Management
11 8 (3.79%) Problem Management
11 8 (3.79%) Roadmaps
11 8 (3.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (3.79%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
11 8 (3.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.48%) Python
2 15 (7.11%) Perl
3 12 (5.69%) Tcl
4 4 (1.90%) PHP
4 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (57.35%) Security Cleared
2 66 (31.28%) SC Cleared
3 59 (27.96%) Cisco Certification
4 52 (24.64%) CCNP
5 38 (18.01%) CCNA
6 8 (3.79%) CCIE
7 6 (2.84%) Degree
8 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.37%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.37%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.42%) BC Cleared
9 3 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.42%) CCDP
9 3 (1.42%) CCIP
9 3 (1.42%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.27%) SLA
2 7 (3.32%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) GDPR
3 4 (1.90%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.90%) NIST
4 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (9.00%) Firmware
2 9 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.90%) Samba
6 1 (0.47%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (9.00%) Ansible
2 18 (8.53%) FortiGate
3 13 (6.16%) Terraform
4 7 (3.32%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (2.37%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (0.95%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 130 (61.61%) Juniper
2 92 (43.60%) Cisco
3 51 (24.17%) Palo Alto
4 27 (12.80%) SolarWinds
5 22 (10.43%) F5
5 22 (10.43%) Fortinet
6 16 (7.58%) Citrix
7 15 (7.11%) Microsoft
8 13 (6.16%) CheckPoint
9 12 (5.69%) Infoblox
10 11 (5.21%) Extreme Networks
11 9 (4.27%) Google
12 7 (3.32%) Arista
13 6 (2.84%) VMware
14 5 (2.37%) Nokia
14 5 (2.37%) Oracle
14 5 (2.37%) Zscaler
15 4 (1.90%) Red Hat
16 3 (1.42%) Alcatel-Lucent
16 3 (1.42%) Forcepoint