IPsec Contracts in Scotland

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 124 162
Rank change year-on-year +11 +38 +15
Contract jobs citing IPsec 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.18% 0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.29% 1.61% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £404 £514 -
25th Percentile £409 £516 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.77% -10.42% +50.00%
75th Percentile £456 £566 £625
90th Percentile - £571 -
UK median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 140 249 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 8.67% 11.22% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 149 227
10th Percentile £200 £187 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £522 £626 £538
90th Percentile £550 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 21
10th Percentile - £15.43 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.69 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in Scotland

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for IPsec in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in Scotland

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Edinburgh +7 4 £413 -21.43% 3
Aberdeen - 1 £438 - 1
IPsec
UK

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (83.33%) SD-WAN
2 5 (83.33%) WAN
3 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 4 (66.67%) Network Security
4 3 (50.00%) Unified Communications
4 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (33.33%) BGP
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
5 2 (33.33%) OSPF
5 2 (33.33%) Wireless
6 1 (16.67%) MPLS
6 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Field Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) High Availability
1 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) F5
2 5 (83.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki