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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 145
Rank change year-on-year +9 +22 +45
Contract jobs citing IPsec 2 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 2.60% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £555 £473
25th Percentile £500 £619 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +17.65% +20.28%
75th Percentile £520 £844 £738
90th Percentile - £885 £783
Central London median daily rate £510 £750 £638
% change year-on-year -32.00% +17.65% +20.28%

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 168 192 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.59% 9.24% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 112 190
10th Percentile £263 £350 £212
25th Percentile £361 £424 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £531 £543
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -2.17% +0.46%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £757 £714
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +2.10% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec 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 and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (50.00%) 4G
2 1 (50.00%) 5G
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) IOS XR
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki