IPsec Contract Job Trends in the South West

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring IPsec skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing IPsec 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.030% - 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% - 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £485
25th Percentile £475 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £504
75th Percentile £525 - £513
90th Percentile - - £517
England median daily rate £461 £520 £400
% change year-on-year -11.35% +30.00% -18.12%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 263 253 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 7.84% 14.94% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 168 329
10th Percentile £265 £246 £297
25th Percentile £400 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +2.43% +4.39%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 5 43
10th Percentile £12.71 £33.15 £12.55
25th Percentile £20.83 £65.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +87.50% +308.16%
75th Percentile £71.76 - £68.46
90th Percentile £86.88 - £83.60
England median hourly rate £40.54 £29.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.68% -25.85% +122.22%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

IPsec job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

IPsec
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Video Analytics
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform