IPsec Contracts in the Midlands

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 146 171
Rank change year-on-year +98 +25 -39
Contract jobs citing IPsec 87 18 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.22% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.24% 3.53% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 5 13
10th Percentile £263 £348 £415
25th Percentile £313 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +40.74%
75th Percentile £388 £475 £545
90th Percentile - £505 £700
England median daily rate £400 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £23.50 £69.11 £44.50
% change year-on-year -66.00% +55.30% +147.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 477 510 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.63% 15.10% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 336 389
10th Percentile £200 £250 £164
25th Percentile £306 £318 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +12.56% -
75th Percentile £575 £595 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £600
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.31% +16.67%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.50 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the Midlands

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the Midlands

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the Midlands

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
West Midlands +82 87 £350 -17.65% 7
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (1.15%) AWS
1 1 (1.15%) Azure
1 1 (1.15%) IaaS
1 1 (1.15%) PaaS
1 1 (1.15%) SaaS
1 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 85 (97.70%) MPLS
2 74 (85.06%) BGP
2 74 (85.06%) WAN
3 50 (57.47%) Junos
4 46 (52.87%) VPN
5 6 (6.90%) LAN
6 5 (5.75%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.15%) CATAPAN
8 1 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.15%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.15%) DNS
8 1 (1.15%) HSRP
8 1 (1.15%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.15%) OSPF
8 1 (1.15%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (1.15%) SSL
8 1 (1.15%) VLAN
General
1 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
2 5 (5.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 34 (39.08%) Network Engineer
1 34 (39.08%) WAN Engineer
2 33 (37.93%) Network Support
3 26 (29.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 25 (28.74%) 3rd Line Support
5 14 (16.09%) 2nd Line Support
6 12 (13.79%) Support Engineer
7 8 (9.20%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Architect
9 6 (6.90%) Network Support Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Network Architect
11 3 (3.45%) Lead
12 2 (2.30%) Lead Architect
12 2 (2.30%) Project Engineer
13 1 (1.15%) Cisco Architect
13 1 (1.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.15%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (68.97%) PKI
2 7 (8.05%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (51.72%) Load Balancing
2 23 (26.44%) Network Design
3 9 (10.34%) Incident Management
4 4 (4.60%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (3.45%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (1.15%) ArchiMate
6 1 (1.15%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (1.15%) CI/CD
6 1 (1.15%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (1.15%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (1.15%) Data Architecture
6 1 (1.15%) Decision-Making
6 1 (1.15%) Design Patterns
6 1 (1.15%) DevOps
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (1.15%) Mentoring
6 1 (1.15%) Project Delivery
6 1 (1.15%) Prototyping
6 1 (1.15%) Roadmaps
6 1 (1.15%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (88.51%) Security Cleared
2 30 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) CCNP
3 5 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.45%) CCNA
4 3 (3.45%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) SLA
Vendors
1 86 (98.85%) Juniper
2 6 (6.90%) Cisco
3 1 (1.15%) F5
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft