IPsec Contracts in the West Midlands

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 132 160
Rank change year-on-year +101 +28 -52
Contract jobs citing IPsec 95 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.95% 0.53% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.36% 3.57% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 5 10
10th Percentile £263 £348 £356
25th Percentile £297 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.05% +40.00%
75th Percentile £388 £475 £649
90th Percentile - £505 £710
England median daily rate £400 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £43.75 £63.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.81% +42.09% +147.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 390 364 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.31% 14.97% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 226 291
10th Percentile £210 £263 £166
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £538
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
England median daily rate £486 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -6.99% +4.50% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 18
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £12.04
25th Percentile £13.50 £14.38 £12.66
Median hourly rate £19.95 £19.60 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +18.80% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £23.40 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £26.38 £20.51
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the West Midlands

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the West Midlands

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the West Midlands

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the West Midlands

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Solihull +7 55 £375 - 7
Birmingham +43 40 £350 -17.65% 3
Warwickshire +1 1 £375 -18.92%
IPsec
England

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (1.05%) AWS
1 1 (1.05%) Azure
1 1 (1.05%) IaaS
1 1 (1.05%) PaaS
1 1 (1.05%) SaaS
1 1 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 92 (96.84%) MPLS
2 82 (86.32%) WAN
3 81 (85.26%) BGP
4 48 (50.53%) Junos
5 45 (47.37%) VPN
6 7 (7.37%) LAN
7 5 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (2.11%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (2.11%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.05%) CATAPAN
9 1 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.05%) DNS
9 1 (1.05%) Firewall
9 1 (1.05%) HSRP
9 1 (1.05%) OSPF
9 1 (1.05%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (1.05%) SSL
9 1 (1.05%) Wireless
General
1 11 (11.58%) Public Sector
2 5 (5.26%) Finance
3 2 (2.11%) Aerospace
3 2 (2.11%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 39 (41.05%) WAN Engineer
2 38 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 35 (36.84%) Network Support
4 23 (24.21%) 3rd Line Support
5 22 (23.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 18 (18.95%) 2nd Line Support
7 13 (13.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 11 (11.58%) Support Engineer
9 10 (10.53%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) Architect
11 5 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Network Architect
11 5 (5.26%) Network Support Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) Lead
13 2 (2.11%) Lead Architect
14 1 (1.05%) IT Engineer
14 1 (1.05%) Lead Network Engineer
14 1 (1.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.05%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.05%) LDAP
1 1 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (70.53%) PKI
2 10 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (45.26%) Load Balancing
2 21 (22.11%) Network Design
3 12 (12.63%) Incident Management
4 4 (4.21%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (3.16%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (2.11%) Change Management
6 2 (2.11%) ITIL
7 1 (1.05%) Agile
7 1 (1.05%) ArchiMate
7 1 (1.05%) BPEL
7 1 (1.05%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (1.05%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (1.05%) Data Architecture
7 1 (1.05%) DevOps
7 1 (1.05%) Mentoring
7 1 (1.05%) Microservices
7 1 (1.05%) Prototyping
7 1 (1.05%) SOA
7 1 (1.05%) Software Architecture
7 1 (1.05%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (85.26%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.37%) CCNP
3 7 (7.37%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.26%) CCNA
5 3 (3.16%) JNCIS
6 2 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.11%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) SLA
Vendors
1 93 (97.89%) Juniper
2 7 (7.37%) Cisco
3 1 (1.05%) F5
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft