IPsec Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring IPsec skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 99 64
Rank change year-on-year +18 -35 +113
Contract jobs citing IPsec 40 14 65
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.16% 0.74% 3.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.29% 5.36% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 2 2
10th Percentile £263 £293 £424
25th Percentile £313 £304 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £333 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -31.79% +14.71%
75th Percentile £400 £364 £541
90th Percentile £475 £378 £561
England median daily rate £447 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.60% +11.11% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 301 261 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.23% 13.77% 20.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 150 227
10th Percentile £243 £170 £200
25th Percentile £325 £300 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £550 £627 £575
90th Percentile £638 £680 £727
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 19
10th Percentile £17.15 £25.38 £22.90
25th Percentile £24.00 £31.56 £24.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +60.00%
75th Percentile £37.50 £41.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £47.40 £52.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.25 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -36.79% +1.52% +37.73%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

IPsec job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

IPsec
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the West Midlands

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Birmingham +24 23 £400 - 5
Warwickshire - 9 £380 -
Solihull -10 4 £363 +9.02%
Herefordshire - 3 £519 - 1
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (5.00%) AWS
1 2 (5.00%) Azure
1 2 (5.00%) GCP
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (87.50%) VPN
2 31 (77.50%) BGP
2 31 (77.50%) WAN
3 20 (50.00%) Firewall
3 20 (50.00%) MPLS
4 17 (42.50%) SSL
5 13 (32.50%) Network Security
6 12 (30.00%) DMVPN
7 11 (27.50%) DNS
7 11 (27.50%) OSPF
7 11 (27.50%) Wireless
8 10 (25.00%) VLAN
9 9 (22.50%) Cisco IPT
10 6 (15.00%) Junos
10 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
11 5 (12.50%) EIGRP
12 3 (7.50%) Unified Communications
12 3 (7.50%) Wireshark
13 2 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (5.00%) Spanning Tree
General
1 12 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 10 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 15 (37.50%) Network Engineer
3 12 (30.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 11 (27.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 11 (27.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) WAN Engineer
6 7 (17.50%) Security Engineer
7 6 (15.00%) Check Point Expert
7 6 (15.00%) Network Support
7 6 (15.00%) Network Support Engineer
8 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
9 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
10 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 2 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (5.00%) Principal Network Engineer
11 2 (5.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 20 (50.00%) PKI
2 8 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Load Balancing
2 11 (27.50%) Change Management
3 9 (22.50%) Inventory Management
3 9 (22.50%) Network Design
3 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.00%) High Availability
4 6 (15.00%) SIEM
5 3 (7.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (7.50%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (7.50%) Project Delivery
6 2 (5.00%) Agile
6 2 (5.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (5.00%) Coaching
6 2 (5.00%) Product Backlog
6 2 (5.00%) Product Management
6 2 (5.00%) Product Requirements
6 2 (5.00%) Product Strategy
6 2 (5.00%) Product Vision
6 2 (5.00%) Scrum
6 2 (5.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (67.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) CCSE
4 3 (7.50%) CCNP
4 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) CCNA
5 1 (2.50%) JNCIA
5 1 (2.50%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Def Stans
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (5.00%) Nagios
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 34 (85.00%) Juniper
2 21 (52.50%) Cisco
3 15 (37.50%) CheckPoint
4 9 (22.50%) Blue Coat
4 9 (22.50%) F5
5 6 (15.00%) Fortinet
6 5 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.00%) Arista
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.00%) Oracle
7 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.50%) Infoblox