IPsec Contracts in London

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 329 439
Rank change year-on-year +11 +110 +72
Contract jobs citing IPsec 35 62 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.35% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.66% 3.61% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 28
10th Percentile £428 £350 £404
25th Percentile £479 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £817
90th Percentile £675 £875 £830
England median daily rate £516 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +29.06% -23.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £24.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -70.00% +185.71%
England median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £69.11
% change year-on-year -20.83% -65.27% +55.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in London

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IPsec in London

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in London

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in London

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +4 3 £500 - 4
East London +14 2 £515 -26.43%
South London - 2 £600 -
West London +8 1 £320 -39.05%
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (8.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (2.86%) Akamai
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.86%) AWS KMS
3 1 (2.86%) Datadog
3 1 (2.86%) GitHub
3 1 (2.86%) IaaS
3 1 (2.86%) npm
3 1 (2.86%) OCI
3 1 (2.86%) PaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Route 53
3 1 (2.86%) SaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (82.86%) Firewall
2 23 (65.71%) VPN
3 22 (62.86%) BGP
4 19 (54.29%) OSPF
5 17 (48.57%) Network Security
5 17 (48.57%) WAN
6 15 (42.86%) MPLS
7 12 (34.29%) Wireless
8 11 (31.43%) LAN
9 9 (25.71%) SSL
10 7 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (20.00%) Internet
11 6 (17.14%) SD-WAN
12 5 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (14.29%) DNS
12 5 (14.29%) HSRP
13 4 (11.43%) Multicast
13 4 (11.43%) NGFW
14 3 (8.57%) Cisco Firepower
14 3 (8.57%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.86%) GitLab
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
1 1 (2.86%) Maven
1 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (22.86%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Architect
2 7 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Network Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Principal Network Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Principal Security Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Python Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) WAN Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.86%) Node.js
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.86%) OpenID
2 1 (2.86%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) SAML
2 1 (2.86%) Spring
2 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.86%) Web Services
2 1 (2.86%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) PKI
5 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Migration
2 8 (22.86%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (14.29%) Agile
3 5 (14.29%) Analytics
3 5 (14.29%) Network Design
4 4 (11.43%) Change Management
4 4 (11.43%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (8.57%) Decision-Making
5 3 (8.57%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (8.57%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (8.57%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
5 3 (8.57%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
6 2 (5.71%) B2B
6 2 (5.71%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.71%) Product Management
6 2 (5.71%) Security Architecture
6 2 (5.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (11.43%) Perl
3 2 (5.71%) Bash
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (31.43%) CCNP
3 8 (22.86%) Degree
4 6 (17.14%) CCNA
5 3 (8.57%) JNCIA
5 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.71%) CCIE
6 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.86%) CCSA
7 1 (2.86%) CCSE
7 1 (2.86%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
1 1 (2.86%) Firmware
1 1 (2.86%) RACF
1 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) FortiGate
3 3 (8.57%) ZABBIX
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (5.71%) Terraform
5 1 (2.86%) CA Spectrum
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (2.86%) Netcool
5 1 (2.86%) Packer
5 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 26 (74.29%) Cisco
2 12 (34.29%) CheckPoint
2 12 (34.29%) Fortinet
3 11 (31.43%) Palo Alto
4 9 (25.71%) Juniper
5 7 (20.00%) SolarWinds
6 6 (17.14%) Arista
6 6 (17.14%) F5
7 5 (14.29%) Aruba
8 2 (5.71%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (5.71%) Forcepoint
8 2 (5.71%) McAfee
8 2 (5.71%) Meraki
8 2 (5.71%) Oracle
8 2 (5.71%) Splunk
9 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
9 1 (2.86%) HP
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.86%) Riverbed
9 1 (2.86%) Trend Micro