IPsec Contracts with Work from Home Options

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 315 415 521
Rank change year-on-year +100 +106 -80
Contract jobs citing IPsec 32 52 98
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.05% 1.80% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 68
10th Percentile £433 £335 £350
25th Percentile £466 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £547 £553 £591
90th Percentile £568 £814 £694
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £19.45 £41.51 £22.58
25th Percentile £20.88 £70.03 £24.94
Median hourly rate £23.50 £78.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.06% +180.36% -47.17%
75th Percentile £24.25 £80.44 £34.88
90th Percentile £24.55 £81.00 £43.20
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £77.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -69.68% +112.33% +87.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,561 2,895 4,322
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.34% 11.52% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,922 2,924
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +13.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

IPsec
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IPsec trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec.

IPsec daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IPsec over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

IPsec daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec.

IPsec hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.50%) Apache Solr
1 4 (12.50%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) GCP
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) OCI
3 2 (6.25%) PaaS
3 2 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (71.88%) Firewall
2 21 (65.63%) BGP
3 20 (62.50%) OSPF
3 20 (62.50%) VPN
4 12 (37.50%) EIGRP
5 11 (34.38%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (28.13%) DNS
6 9 (28.13%) Network Security
6 9 (28.13%) SNMP
6 9 (28.13%) WAN
7 8 (25.00%) HSRP
7 8 (25.00%) Wireless
8 7 (21.88%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (21.88%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (21.88%) MPLS
8 7 (21.88%) NetScaler
8 7 (21.88%) Spanning Tree
8 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
8 7 (21.88%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (18.75%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Couchbase
1 4 (12.50%) MySQL
1 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
General
1 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Legal
4 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.25%) Finance
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Implementation Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Network Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Citrix Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Lead
6 1 (3.13%) Network Support
6 1 (3.13%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Remote Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Jinja
2 4 (12.50%) JSON
2 4 (12.50%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (12.50%) YAML
3 3 (9.38%) LDAP
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.38%) PKI
4 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.25%) Shadow IT
5 1 (3.13%) IoT
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) CentOS
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Change Management
2 12 (37.50%) Migration
3 10 (31.25%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) ITIL
4 8 (25.00%) Network Management
5 7 (21.88%) ITSM
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
8 4 (12.50%) Information Security
8 4 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (12.50%) Microservices
8 4 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (12.50%) SDLC
8 4 (12.50%) Software Delivery
9 3 (9.38%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Perl
1 6 (18.75%) Python
1 6 (18.75%) Tcl
2 4 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (46.88%) CCNP
3 11 (34.38%) CCNA
3 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) BC Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (9.38%) CCDP
4 3 (9.38%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) QA
2 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 4 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.50%) NIST
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Firmware
2 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Ansible
2 4 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Cisco
2 13 (40.63%) Palo Alto
3 9 (28.13%) Citrix
3 9 (28.13%) SolarWinds
4 6 (18.75%) Juniper
5 4 (12.50%) Google
6 3 (9.38%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
6 3 (9.38%) Zscaler
7 2 (6.25%) F5
7 2 (6.25%) Nokia
7 2 (6.25%) Okta
7 2 (6.25%) Oracle
8 1 (3.13%) ADVA
8 1 (3.13%) Arista
8 1 (3.13%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft