IPsec Contract Job Trends in the North West

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring IPsec skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 80 126
Rank change year-on-year -58 +46 +53
Contract jobs citing IPsec 6 38 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.24% 1.69% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.76% 11.84% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £424 £365 -
25th Percentile £435 £454 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £513 £325
Median % change year-on-year -12.78% +57.69% -38.10%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £375
90th Percentile £700 £588 £405
England median daily rate £430 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -14.00% +11.11% -12.62%

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 340 321 449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.78% 14.24% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 165 329
10th Percentile £170 £207 £285
25th Percentile £352 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £679 £688 £672
England median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 11
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.88 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £23.38 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £48.03 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -51.07% +171.05% -10.87%
75th Percentile £71.19 £51.91 £32.30
90th Percentile £74.26 £52.08 £46.88
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +25.53%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

IPsec job vacancy trend in the North West

IPsec
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IPsec.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IPsec

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the North West over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the North West

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IPsec.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IPsec

IPsec
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 3 December 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 -12 4 £442 -19.59%
Lancashire - 2 £700 - 1
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) 3GPP
1 4 (66.67%) 4G
1 4 (66.67%) 5G
1 4 (66.67%) BGP
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) MPLS
1 4 (66.67%) OSPF
1 4 (66.67%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (66.67%) VLAN
1 4 (66.67%) Wireshark
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Designer
1 4 (66.67%) Network Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Zscaler