IPsec Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring IPsec skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing IPsec 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.19% - 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.00% - 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £607
25th Percentile £513 - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £614
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.80%
75th Percentile £538 - £618
90th Percentile - - £618
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 - £614
% change year-on-year - - -1.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 50 32 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.73% 15.61% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 20 80
10th Percentile £130 £266 £320
25th Percentile £513 £483 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £574 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +9.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £632 £630 £560
90th Percentile £647 £661 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £554 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +3.94% +1.43% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.52
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £34.69
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £24.00
% change year-on-year +153.52% -40.83% +45.45%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

IPsec job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

IPsec
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing IPsec.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing IPsec

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing IPsec.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing IPsec

IPsec
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) CCDA
1 1 (100.00%) CCDP
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCIP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler