IPsec Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 310 419
Rank change year-on-year +35 +109 +115
Contract jobs citing IPsec 29 35 58
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.78% 2.17% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 24
10th Percentile £400 £433 £341
25th Percentile £409 £466 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +5.64% -2.50%
75th Percentile £578 £547 £606
90th Percentile £603 £568 £765
UK median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £19.93 £41.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.06 £70.03
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -69.43% +180.36%
75th Percentile £19.50 £35.44 £80.44
90th Percentile - £54.68 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -20.83% -69.03% +112.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

IPsec
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IPsec trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IPsec
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IPsec.

IPsec daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IPsec over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

IPsec daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IPsec.

IPsec hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (10.34%) AWS KMS
2 3 (10.34%) IaaS
2 3 (10.34%) PaaS
2 3 (10.34%) Route 53
2 3 (10.34%) SaaS
2 3 (10.34%) Serverless
3 2 (6.90%) Akamai
3 2 (6.90%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) Datadog
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 21 (72.41%) VPN
2 19 (65.52%) Firewall
3 18 (62.07%) Network Security
4 17 (58.62%) BGP
4 17 (58.62%) OSPF
5 16 (55.17%) SSL
6 10 (34.48%) TCP/IP
7 9 (31.03%) EIGRP
7 9 (31.03%) TACACS
8 8 (27.59%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (27.59%) HSRP
9 7 (24.14%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (24.14%) DNS
9 7 (24.14%) MPLS
9 7 (24.14%) VLAN
9 7 (24.14%) WAN
10 6 (20.69%) LAN
11 5 (17.24%) SNMP
11 5 (17.24%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (13.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
1 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) GitLab
1 3 (10.34%) Maven
2 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Network Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Security Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Support Specialist
4 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Network Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Principal Network Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Principal Security Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Implementation Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Network Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Network Implementation Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Node.js
1 3 (10.34%) OAuth
1 3 (10.34%) OAuth2
1 3 (10.34%) OpenID
1 3 (10.34%) REST
1 3 (10.34%) SAML
1 3 (10.34%) Spring
1 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
1 3 (10.34%) Web Services
1 3 (10.34%) XACML
2 2 (6.90%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) FMCG
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) SCADA
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Agile
2 6 (20.69%) Network Management
3 5 (17.24%) Load Balancing
3 5 (17.24%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
3 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (17.24%) Security Architecture
4 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
4 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
4 4 (13.79%) ITIL
4 4 (13.79%) Migration
4 4 (13.79%) Project Management
5 3 (10.34%) BPEL
5 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (10.34%) Data Architecture
5 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (10.34%) Network Design
5 3 (10.34%) SOA
5 3 (10.34%) TDD
5 3 (10.34%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Java
1 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (13.79%) CCNP
4 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.90%) CCDP
6 1 (3.45%) BC Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) CCIE
6 1 (3.45%) CCIP
6 1 (3.45%) CCNA
6 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
1 3 (10.34%) RACF
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Packer
2 3 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (10.34%) ZABBIX
3 1 (3.45%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 23 (79.31%) Cisco
2 15 (51.72%) Palo Alto
3 13 (44.83%) F5
4 12 (41.38%) CheckPoint
5 6 (20.69%) SolarWinds
6 4 (13.79%) Juniper
7 2 (6.90%) Arista
7 2 (6.90%) Aruba
7 2 (6.90%) Blue Coat
7 2 (6.90%) Oracle
7 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
8 1 (3.45%) ADVA
8 1 (3.45%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
8 1 (3.45%) Citrix
8 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.45%) Riverbed