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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 550 628
Rank change year-on-year +157 +78 -33
Contract jobs citing IPsec 195 143 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.58% 1.99% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 61 151
10th Percentile £275 £313 £363
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 £650 £632
90th Percentile £578 £830 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £413 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 8
10th Percentile £19.45 £38.22 £21.00
25th Percentile £20.88 £62.00 £24.94
Median hourly rate £23.50 £77.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.68% +112.33% +87.18%
75th Percentile £24.25 £80.25 £47.63
90th Percentile £24.55 £82.62 £49.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £63.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year -69.95% +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 5,443 7,173 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.35% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,255 4,651 6,275
10th Percentile £205 £241 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 474 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £68.21 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

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 7 May 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
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 7 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
England +158 187 £400 -23.81% 30
UK excluding London +122 131 £375 -9.09% 18
Midlands +98 87 £350 -17.65% 7
West Midlands +82 87 £350 -17.65% 7
London +97 58 £525 -24.32% 14
Work from Home +106 32 £515 +8.42% 13
South East +14 18 £400 -13.51% 4
North West +17 15 £513 +51.85% 2
North of England +17 15 £513 +46.43% 2
South West +16 6 £504 - 1
Scotland - 4 £538 - 3
Wales +17 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 (2.05%) Apache Solr
1 4 (2.05%) MQSeries
1 4 (2.05%) nginx
2 2 (1.03%) IIS
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.79%) Azure
2 18 (9.23%) AWS
3 12 (6.15%) GCP
4 10 (5.13%) OCI
4 10 (5.13%) SaaS
5 6 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.08%) PaaS
6 4 (2.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (2.05%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.03%) IaaS
8 2 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.51%) GitHub
9 1 (0.51%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 148 (75.90%) BGP
2 121 (62.05%) MPLS
3 112 (57.44%) VPN
4 110 (56.41%) WAN
5 92 (47.18%) Firewall
6 70 (35.90%) OSPF
7 54 (27.69%) Junos
8 43 (22.05%) LAN
9 39 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
10 34 (17.44%) Wireless
11 31 (15.90%) HSRP
12 28 (14.36%) EIGRP
13 27 (13.85%) DNS
14 23 (11.79%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (11.28%) SNMP
15 22 (11.28%) Spanning Tree
16 21 (10.77%) Cisco Firepower
17 19 (9.74%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (9.74%) Network Security
17 19 (9.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.05%) Couchbase
1 4 (2.05%) MySQL
1 4 (2.05%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Git
2 3 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
General
1 28 (14.36%) Public Sector
2 18 (9.23%) Finance
3 14 (7.18%) Social Skills
4 12 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.08%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.05%) Banking
6 4 (2.05%) Legal
7 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 102 (52.31%) Network Engineer
2 38 (19.49%) Network Support
3 36 (18.46%) WAN Engineer
4 30 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 28 (14.36%) 3rd Line Support
6 24 (12.31%) Senior
7 21 (10.77%) Senior Network Engineer
8 18 (9.23%) Support Engineer
9 15 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
10 13 (6.67%) Network Specialist
11 11 (5.64%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 11 (5.64%) Architect
11 11 (5.64%) Network Support Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Cisco Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Network Architect
14 8 (4.10%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 6 (3.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 6 (3.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.15%) 802.1X
1 12 (6.15%) Jinja
2 8 (4.10%) LDAP
3 4 (2.05%) JSON
3 4 (2.05%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.05%) SAML
3 4 (2.05%) YAML
4 3 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.03%) Web Services
6 1 (0.51%) OAuth
6 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.51%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 83 (42.56%) PKI
2 34 (17.44%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.03%) Shadow IT
8 1 (0.51%) Clustering
8 1 (0.51%) IoT
8 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.18%) Linux
2 8 (4.10%) Unix
3 6 (3.08%) Windows
4 4 (2.05%) CentOS
5 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.64%) Load Balancing
2 30 (15.38%) Change Management
2 30 (15.38%) Network Design
3 26 (13.33%) Migration
4 22 (11.28%) ITIL
5 21 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (9.23%) DevOps
6 18 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (9.23%) ITSM
7 14 (7.18%) Network Management
8 12 (6.15%) Agile
9 11 (5.64%) Configuration Management
9 11 (5.64%) Kalman Filter
9 11 (5.64%) Threat Management
10 9 (4.62%) Incident Management
11 8 (4.10%) Roadmaps
12 7 (3.59%) Mentoring
12 7 (3.59%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (3.59%) Problem Management
12 7 (3.59%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.26%) Python
2 15 (7.69%) Perl
3 12 (6.15%) Tcl
4 4 (2.05%) PHP
4 4 (2.05%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (57.44%) Security Cleared
2 59 (30.26%) SC Cleared
3 55 (28.21%) Cisco Certification
4 49 (25.13%) CCNP
5 35 (17.95%) CCNA
6 8 (4.10%) CCIE
7 5 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.56%) Degree
8 3 (1.54%) BC Cleared
8 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.54%) CCDP
8 3 (1.54%) CCIP
8 3 (1.54%) JNCIA
8 3 (1.54%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.62%) SLA
2 7 (3.59%) QA
3 4 (2.05%) GDPR
3 4 (2.05%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.05%) NIST
4 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (9.74%) Firmware
2 9 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.05%) Samba
6 1 (0.51%) NFS
6 1 (0.51%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (9.74%) Ansible
2 15 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 13 (6.67%) Terraform
4 6 (3.08%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (2.56%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.03%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (59.49%) Juniper
2 87 (44.62%) Cisco
3 45 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 26 (13.33%) SolarWinds
5 21 (10.77%) F5
6 19 (9.74%) Fortinet
7 16 (8.21%) Citrix
8 14 (7.18%) Microsoft
9 13 (6.67%) CheckPoint
10 12 (6.15%) Infoblox
11 9 (4.62%) Extreme Networks
11 9 (4.62%) Google
12 7 (3.59%) Arista
13 6 (3.08%) VMware
14 5 (2.56%) Nokia
14 5 (2.56%) Oracle
14 5 (2.56%) Zscaler
15 4 (2.05%) Red Hat
16 3 (1.54%) Alcatel-Lucent
16 3 (1.54%) New Relic