IPsec Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring IPsec skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 118 121
Rank change year-on-year -20 +3 +35
Contract jobs citing IPsec 1 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.044% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.52% 1.11% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £555
25th Percentile £475 £500 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £750
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -32.67% +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £515 £844
90th Percentile - £518 £885
Central London median daily rate £500 £505 £750
% change year-on-year -0.99% -32.67% +17.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 194 180 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.52% 10.14% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 126 111
10th Percentile £294 £263 £350
25th Percentile £400 £381 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £527
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.18% -3.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £715 £775 £763
Central London median daily rate £520 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -2.99% +2.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £19.39 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £19.46 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% - -
75th Percentile £39.50 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £54.80 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
% change year-on-year +2.02% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IPsec relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

IPsec job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IPsec.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IPsec

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IPsec.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IPsec

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto