IPsec Contracts in the South East

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 188 231
Rank change year-on-year +3 +43 -29
Contract jobs citing IPsec 19 31 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.55% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.59% 3.17% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 17
10th Percentile £263 £263 £398
25th Percentile £314 £379 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £475 £595 £594
90th Percentile £503 £607 £625
England median daily rate £375 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £42.65
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £44.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £78.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.80% +65.26% +123.53%
75th Percentile £19.50 £80.25 £49.76
90th Percentile - £80.70 £50.37
England median hourly rate £21.25 £63.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year -66.39% +42.09% +157.97%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,197 978 1,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.02% 17.29% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 576 778
10th Percentile £206 £246 £210
25th Percentile £388 £363 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +6.79% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £700 £651
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 71 84
10th Percentile £17.11 £18.25 £13.08
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +179.07% -49.41%
75th Percentile £67.02 £74.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £62.28
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +6.27%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the South East

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the South East.

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the South East

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the South East

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the South East

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Thames Valley 0 11 £400 -28.89% 2
Berkshire -4 11 £400 -
Hampshire -2 7 £287 +4.18% 1
Surrey +6 1 £500 +17.30% 3
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 18 (94.74%) BGP
2 16 (84.21%) Firewall
3 12 (63.16%) OSPF
4 11 (57.89%) MPLS
5 10 (52.63%) VPN
6 9 (47.37%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (47.37%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (42.11%) EIGRP
8 7 (36.84%) LAN
8 7 (36.84%) WAN
9 6 (31.58%) HSRP
10 4 (21.05%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (21.05%) Junos
10 4 (21.05%) Network Security
10 4 (21.05%) SD-WAN
10 4 (21.05%) SNMP
10 4 (21.05%) SSL
10 4 (21.05%) VLAN
11 3 (15.79%) Spanning Tree
11 3 (15.79%) VPLS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Network Support
2 3 (15.79%) Network Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Data Centre
2 4 (21.05%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Migration
1 4 (21.05%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (15.79%) ITIL
2 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
2 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (10.53%) Agile
3 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
3 2 (10.53%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) Scrum
3 2 (10.53%) User Stories
4 1 (5.26%) Adaptive Security
4 1 (5.26%) Communications Security
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.26%) Information Management
4 1 (5.26%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.26%) Network Design
4 1 (5.26%) Process Management
4 1 (5.26%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (5.26%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Cisco Certification
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) CCNA
3 6 (31.58%) CCNP
4 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
5 3 (15.79%) JNCIA
6 1 (5.26%) BC Cleared
6 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.26%) CCDP
6 1 (5.26%) CCIE
6 1 (5.26%) CCIP
6 1 (5.26%) Degree
6 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Juniper
2 15 (78.95%) Cisco
3 6 (31.58%) F5
4 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
5 3 (15.79%) Aruba
6 2 (10.53%) Blue Coat
6 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
6 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
6 2 (10.53%) McAfee
6 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
7 1 (5.26%) ADVA
7 1 (5.26%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (5.26%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (5.26%) Forcepoint
7 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds