IPsec Contracts in the North West

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 86 124 133
Rank change year-on-year +38 +9 +33
Contract jobs citing IPsec 34 13 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.73% 0.47% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.40% 3.57% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 15
10th Percentile £430 £463 £268
25th Percentile £480 £483 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £515 £350
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% +47.14% -41.67%
75th Percentile £588 £515 £531
90th Percentile £611 £519 £590
England median daily rate £516 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +29.06% -23.81% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 327 364 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.62% 13.21% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 253 298
10th Percentile £185 £199 £288
25th Percentile £300 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £653 £575
90th Percentile £600 £825 £650
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.72 £17.92
25th Percentile £21.12 £18.48 £19.17
Median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%
75th Percentile £25.47 £45.88 £51.45
90th Percentile £25.90 £83.76 £52.13
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the North West

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cumbria +17 32 £575 +11.65% 2
Manchester - 1 £375 -
Cheshire - 1 £600 -
IPsec
England

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

Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 33 (97.06%) BGP
1 33 (97.06%) OSPF
2 32 (94.12%) HSRP
3 28 (82.35%) EIGRP
4 24 (70.59%) Cisco ASA
4 24 (70.59%) Cisco Firepower
5 22 (64.71%) Firewall
6 8 (23.53%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (17.65%) Network Security
7 6 (17.65%) VPN
7 6 (17.65%) WAN
8 5 (14.71%) LAN
8 5 (14.71%) NetScaler
9 4 (11.76%) Broadband
9 4 (11.76%) Converged Networks
10 1 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (2.94%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (2.94%) DNS
10 1 (2.94%) Multicast
10 1 (2.94%) SSL
General
1 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.94%) Banking
2 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Finance
2 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (97.06%) Network Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Senior
3 3 (8.82%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) ITSM
2 7 (20.59%) Network Management
3 6 (17.65%) ITIL
4 4 (11.76%) Load Balancing
5 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
6 2 (5.88%) B2B
6 2 (5.88%) Network Design
7 1 (2.94%) Architecture Roadmap
7 1 (2.94%) Change Management
7 1 (2.94%) Decision-Making
7 1 (2.94%) Incident Management
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (2.94%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (2.94%) Process Improvement
7 1 (2.94%) Product Management
7 1 (2.94%) Project Management
7 1 (2.94%) Roadmaps
7 1 (2.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) Perl
1 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (91.18%) SC Cleared
1 31 (91.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (14.71%) CCNA
4 2 (5.88%) CCNP
5 1 (2.94%) CCIE
5 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (97.06%) Cisco
2 24 (70.59%) Palo Alto
3 19 (55.88%) CheckPoint
4 7 (20.59%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.94%) Arista
5 1 (2.94%) Citrix
5 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.94%) McAfee
5 1 (2.94%) Meraki
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk