IPsec Contracts in England

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 529 593
Rank change year-on-year +189 +64 -41
Contract jobs citing IPsec 202 134 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.04% 2.17% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 62 120
10th Percentile £263 £315 £359
25th Percentile £325 £391 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £498
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +3.02% -0.50%
75th Percentile £524 £600 £629
90th Percentile £612 £793 £725
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 6
10th Percentile £19.93 £28.36 £26.50
25th Percentile £22.06 £62.00 £30.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £69.11 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.27% +55.30% +147.22%
75th Percentile £35.44 £80.25 £48.38
90th Percentile £54.68 £80.78 £49.76
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £77.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -69.03% +112.33% +87.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in England

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IPsec in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IPsec in England

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Midlands +96 96 £350 -17.65% 6
West Midlands +95 96 £350 -17.65% 6
London +114 63 £525 -4.55% 13
South East +19 21 £400 -22.89% 4
North of England +20 13 £515 +37.33% 1
North West +5 13 £515 +47.14% 1
South West +22 6 £504 - 2
IPsec
UK

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.98%) Apache Solr
1 4 (1.98%) MQSeries
1 4 (1.98%) nginx
2 2 (0.99%) IIS
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.89%) Azure
2 18 (8.91%) AWS
3 12 (5.94%) GCP
4 7 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (3.47%) OCI
4 7 (3.47%) SaaS
5 4 (1.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.49%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.49%) PaaS
7 2 (0.99%) IaaS
7 2 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.99%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.50%) GitHub
8 1 (0.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 161 (79.70%) BGP
2 129 (63.86%) MPLS
3 122 (60.40%) WAN
4 108 (53.47%) VPN
5 91 (45.05%) Firewall
6 74 (36.63%) OSPF
7 55 (27.23%) Junos
8 47 (23.27%) LAN
9 42 (20.79%) Cisco ASA
10 39 (19.31%) Wireless
11 31 (15.35%) HSRP
12 28 (13.86%) DNS
13 27 (13.37%) EIGRP
14 24 (11.88%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (10.89%) Spanning Tree
16 21 (10.40%) Cisco Firepower
16 21 (10.40%) SNMP
17 19 (9.41%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (9.41%) WLAN
18 18 (8.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.98%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.98%) MySQL
1 4 (1.98%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.98%) Git
2 3 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 27 (13.37%) Public Sector
2 18 (8.91%) Finance
3 15 (7.43%) Social Skills
4 14 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.96%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.98%) Banking
6 4 (1.98%) Legal
7 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.99%) Aviation
8 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Advertising
9 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 103 (50.99%) Network Engineer
2 43 (21.29%) WAN Engineer
3 40 (19.80%) Network Support
4 28 (13.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 26 (12.87%) 3rd Line Support
6 22 (10.89%) Senior
7 21 (10.40%) Senior Network Engineer
8 19 (9.41%) 2nd Line Support
9 17 (8.42%) Network Specialist
10 16 (7.92%) Support Engineer
11 14 (6.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 11 (5.45%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
12 11 (5.45%) Architect
12 11 (5.45%) Cisco Engineer
12 11 (5.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 10 (4.95%) Network Support Engineer
14 9 (4.46%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
14 9 (4.46%) Network Architect
15 8 (3.96%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 7 (3.47%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.94%) 802.1X
1 12 (5.94%) Jinja
2 4 (1.98%) JSON
2 4 (1.98%) LDAP
2 4 (1.98%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.98%) SAML
2 4 (1.98%) YAML
3 2 (0.99%) Web Services
4 1 (0.50%) OAuth
4 1 (0.50%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.50%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 98 (48.51%) PKI
2 35 (17.33%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.47%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.50%) Clustering
9 1 (0.50%) IoT
9 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.93%) Linux
2 9 (4.46%) Unix
3 5 (2.48%) Windows
4 4 (1.98%) CentOS
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (25.25%) Load Balancing
2 32 (15.84%) Change Management
3 28 (13.86%) Network Design
4 25 (12.38%) ITIL
4 25 (12.38%) Migration
5 23 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (8.91%) DevOps
7 18 (8.91%) ITSM
8 14 (6.93%) Agile
8 14 (6.93%) Network Management
8 14 (6.93%) Threat Management
9 12 (5.94%) Incident Management
10 11 (5.45%) Configuration Management
11 9 (4.46%) Kalman Filter
12 8 (3.96%) Problem Management
12 8 (3.96%) Roadmaps
12 8 (3.96%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (3.96%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
12 8 (3.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.90%) Python
2 15 (7.43%) Perl
3 12 (5.94%) Tcl
4 4 (1.98%) PHP
4 4 (1.98%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (59.90%) Security Cleared
2 66 (32.67%) SC Cleared
3 57 (28.22%) Cisco Certification
4 51 (25.25%) CCNP
5 36 (17.82%) CCNA
6 8 (3.96%) CCIE
7 6 (2.97%) Degree
8 5 (2.48%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.48%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.48%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.49%) BC Cleared
9 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.49%) CCDP
9 3 (1.49%) CCIP
9 3 (1.49%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.46%) SLA
2 7 (3.47%) QA
3 4 (1.98%) GDPR
3 4 (1.98%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.98%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (9.41%) Firmware
2 6 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.98%) Samba
5 3 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.50%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (9.41%) Ansible
2 17 (8.42%) FortiGate
3 13 (6.44%) Terraform
4 7 (3.47%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (2.48%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.99%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (0.99%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 130 (64.36%) Juniper
2 89 (44.06%) Cisco
3 49 (24.26%) Palo Alto
4 27 (13.37%) SolarWinds
5 22 (10.89%) F5
6 21 (10.40%) Fortinet
7 15 (7.43%) Microsoft
8 14 (6.93%) Citrix
9 13 (6.44%) CheckPoint
10 12 (5.94%) Infoblox
11 11 (5.45%) Extreme Networks
12 9 (4.46%) Google
13 7 (3.47%) Arista
14 6 (2.97%) VMware
15 5 (2.48%) Nokia
16 4 (1.98%) Red Hat
17 3 (1.49%) Alcatel-Lucent
17 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
17 3 (1.49%) Forcepoint
17 3 (1.49%) New Relic