IPsec Contracts in England

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 363 518
Rank change year-on-year 0 +155 +66
Contract jobs citing IPsec 105 174 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.48% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.32% 3.62% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 108 58
10th Percentile £260 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £325 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £489
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -18.12% -2.30%
75th Percentile £598 £515 £641
90th Percentile £655 £551 £830
UK median daily rate £500 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 14
10th Percentile - £18.98 £28.36
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.69 £62.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £21.25 £69.11
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -69.25% +55.30%
75th Percentile £19.50 £22.69 £80.25
90th Percentile - £23.33 £80.78
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £21.25 £77.50
% change year-on-year -10.59% -72.58% +112.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,165 4,808 5,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.07% 13.18% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 2,893 3,904
10th Percentile £220 £207 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £518
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.41% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 389 430
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.06 £16.30 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +116.22% -22.63%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.75 £59.67
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.71 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.24% +116.22% -32.73%

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 15 May 2025.

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
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 15 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
London +35 37 £520 -0.95% 65
North of England +35 33 £575 +12.20% 15
North West +26 32 £575 +12.20% 9
Midlands -36 24 £388 +10.71% 5
West Midlands -41 19 £288 -17.86% 2
East Midlands - 5 £618 - 3
South East +33 4 £420 +5.00% 26
East of England - 2 £250 - 12
North East - 1 £550 -
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 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.19%) AWS
2 8 (7.62%) Azure
3 2 (1.90%) Akamai
3 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (1.90%) AWS KMS
3 2 (1.90%) GCP
3 2 (1.90%) IaaS
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.90%) OCI
3 2 (1.90%) PaaS
3 2 (1.90%) Route 53
3 2 (1.90%) SaaS
3 2 (1.90%) Serverless
4 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.95%) Datadog
4 1 (0.95%) GitHub
4 1 (0.95%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 81 (77.14%) BGP
2 74 (70.48%) Firewall
2 74 (70.48%) OSPF
3 51 (48.57%) VPN
4 45 (42.86%) HSRP
5 42 (40.00%) WAN
6 35 (33.33%) EIGRP
7 34 (32.38%) Network Security
8 32 (30.48%) MPLS
9 30 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
10 27 (25.71%) Cisco Firepower
11 23 (21.90%) SSL
12 22 (20.95%) LAN
13 19 (18.10%) DNS
14 18 (17.14%) VLAN
14 18 (17.14%) Wireless
15 13 (12.38%) TCP/IP
16 12 (11.43%) Internet
16 12 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
17 11 (10.48%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.90%) GitLab
1 2 (1.90%) Maven
2 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.95%) JIRA
2 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (17.14%) Public Sector
2 17 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.48%) Finance
4 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.86%) Banking
6 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Law
7 1 (0.95%) Legal
7 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (67.62%) Network Engineer
2 17 (16.19%) Architect
3 14 (13.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 11 (10.48%) Network Architect
5 10 (9.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 10 (9.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Network Support
7 7 (6.67%) Network Support Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Check Point Expert
8 6 (5.71%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Senior
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.67%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.90%) Node.js
2 2 (1.90%) OAuth
2 2 (1.90%) OAuth2
2 2 (1.90%) OpenID
2 2 (1.90%) REST
2 2 (1.90%) SAML
2 2 (1.90%) Spring
2 2 (1.90%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.90%) Web Services
2 2 (1.90%) XACML
3 1 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.95%) HTML
3 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) PKI
2 9 (8.57%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.95%) FMCG
7 1 (0.95%) IoT
7 1 (0.95%) SCADA
7 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.71%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (0.95%) Linux
2 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 11 (10.48%) Migration
2 11 (10.48%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (9.52%) Agile
3 10 (9.52%) ITIL
4 9 (8.57%) Change Management
4 9 (8.57%) Network Design
4 9 (8.57%) Network Management
5 8 (7.62%) High Availability
5 8 (7.62%) ITSM
6 7 (6.67%) Configuration Management
6 7 (6.67%) Project Delivery
7 6 (5.71%) Analytics
7 6 (5.71%) Decision-Making
7 6 (5.71%) Roadmaps
7 6 (5.71%) SIEM
8 5 (4.76%) Product Management
9 4 (3.81%) Computer Science
9 4 (3.81%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.48%) Python
2 5 (4.76%) Perl
3 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.90%) Bash
4 2 (1.90%) Java
4 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (50.48%) Security Cleared
2 49 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 33 (31.43%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (22.86%) CCNP
5 13 (12.38%) CCNA
6 11 (10.48%) Degree
7 7 (6.67%) CCSE
8 4 (3.81%) CCIE
8 4 (3.81%) JNCIA
9 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.90%) CCDP
10 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.95%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.95%) CCIP
11 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) SLA
2 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.90%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.90%) Docker
1 2 (1.90%) RACF
1 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.95%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) Ansible
2 10 (9.52%) FortiGate
3 3 (2.86%) Terraform
3 3 (2.86%) ZABBIX
4 2 (1.90%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.90%) Nagios
4 2 (1.90%) Packer
4 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.95%) CA Spectrum
5 1 (0.95%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (0.95%) Netcool
5 1 (0.95%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.95%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 79 (75.24%) Cisco
2 40 (38.10%) CheckPoint
3 37 (35.24%) Palo Alto
4 33 (31.43%) Juniper
5 23 (21.90%) Fortinet
6 22 (20.95%) SolarWinds
7 17 (16.19%) F5
8 13 (12.38%) Arista
9 10 (9.52%) Aruba
10 4 (3.81%) Meraki
10 4 (3.81%) Microsoft
11 3 (2.86%) McAfee
11 3 (2.86%) Oracle
11 3 (2.86%) Splunk
12 2 (1.90%) Barracuda Networks
12 2 (1.90%) Blue Coat
12 2 (1.90%) Forcepoint
12 2 (1.90%) Riverbed
12 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.90%) Zscaler