IPsec Contracts in Central London

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring IPsec skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IPsec over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 130 165
Rank change year-on-year +4 +35 +27
Contract jobs citing IPsec 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.40% 1.23% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £430 - £451
25th Percentile £456 - £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.00%
75th Percentile £706 - £803
90th Percentile £830 - £809
London median daily rate £516 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -1.67% -8.70% +4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

IPsec falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 215 243 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.77% 9.93% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 169 269
10th Percentile £263 £211 £208
25th Percentile £448 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £675
90th Percentile £711 £739 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £16.59 £24.64
90th Percentile - £17.99 £30.86
London median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPsec in Central London.

Daily rate trend for IPsec in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in Central London

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPsec in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +7 2 £688 - 3
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
IPsec
London

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (33.33%) HSRP
2 1 (33.33%) IPv6
2 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless Security
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CA Spectrum
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco LMS
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (33.33%) Netcool
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) 3PAR
2 1 (33.33%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Forcepoint
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Riverbed
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Trend Micro