IPsec Contracts in the North of England

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 190 231
Rank change year-on-year +14 +41 -44
Contract jobs citing IPsec 13 26 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.45% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.15% 3.82% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 7
10th Percentile £463 £270 £353
25th Percentile £483 £288 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +37.33% -31.82% +33.33%
75th Percentile £515 £538 £600
90th Percentile £519 £637 £620
England median daily rate £400 £513 £495
% change year-on-year -21.95% +3.54% -1.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 606 681 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.66% 11.66% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 471 599
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £328 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +9.55% +17.11%
75th Percentile £610 £575 £545
90th Percentile £738 £675 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 48 29
10th Percentile £13.42 - £11.18
25th Percentile £17.72 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £45.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
North West +9 13 £515 +47.14% 1
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England

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) BGP
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 13 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
1 13 (100.00%) HSRP
1 13 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 13 (100.00%) OSPF
2 12 (92.31%) SNMP
2 12 (92.31%) Spanning Tree
2 12 (92.31%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (69.23%) Senior
2 9 (69.23%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) Jinja
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Change Management
1 13 (100.00%) ITIL
1 13 (100.00%) Network Management
2 12 (92.31%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Perl
1 12 (92.31%) Python
1 12 (92.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) CCNA
2 12 (92.31%) CCNP
2 12 (92.31%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
1 13 (100.00%) Citrix
1 13 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 13 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft