IPsec Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring IPsec skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 79 95
Rank change year-on-year -34 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing IPsec 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.17% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.48% 1.05% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £236
25th Percentile - £363 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £375 £338
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £444 £388 £397
90th Percentile £530 - £429
North West median daily rate £300 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -47.83% +12.20% +26.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 121 95 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.96% 10.67% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 66 147
10th Percentile £350 £193 £235
25th Percentile £376 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £431 £463
Median % change year-on-year +21.80% -6.76% -6.57%
75th Percentile £605 £500 £775
90th Percentile £650 £638 £850
North West median daily rate £490 £450 £483
% change year-on-year +8.78% -6.74% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £14.19 - £27.20
25th Percentile £16.01 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £96.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +383.57%
75th Percentile £18.00 - £102.00
90th Percentile £18.14 - £103.20
North West median hourly rate £38.88 £24.59 £34.37
% change year-on-year +58.15% -28.46% +24.96%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IPsec relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

IPsec job vacancy trend in Manchester

IPsec
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IPsec.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IPsec

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in Manchester

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IPsec.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IPsec

IPsec
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) 802.11
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) VXLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) TACACS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet