IPsec Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 122 165
Rank change year-on-year +10 +43 +29
Contract jobs citing IPsec 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.75% 1.38% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £534 £789
25th Percentile £500 £566 £791
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £638 £800
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -20.31% +18.52%
75th Percentile £716 £716 £809
90th Percentile £834 £751 £811
Central London median daily rate £505 £638 £800
% change year-on-year -20.78% -20.31% +18.52%

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 171 218 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.52% 10.21% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 137 238
10th Percentile £258 £240 £213
25th Percentile £423 £350 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -15.56% +4.17%
75th Percentile £661 £619 £675
90th Percentile £748 £768 £791
Central London median daily rate £543 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +20.56% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the City of London

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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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) IOS XR
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
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%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) 3PAR
2 1 (33.33%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Forcepoint
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Trend Micro