IPsec Job Trends in the East of England

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring IPsec skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 164 169
Rank change year-on-year -44 +5 -34
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 6 6 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.071% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.99% 0.90% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £44,125 -
25th Percentile - £44,688 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile - £60,938 £61,875
90th Percentile - £64,875 £62,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +36.79% -7.83% +5.02%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

IPsec falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 604 668 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.15% 20.14% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 403 255 347
10th Percentile £26,075 £26,250 £29,550
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56,000 £58,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IPsec relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

IPsec job vacancy trend in the East of England

IPsec
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing IPsec.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing IPsec

IPsec
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 October 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire - 5 - - 1
Essex - 1 £65,000 - 1
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SSL
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) IT Security Specialist
1 5 (83.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Actionable Insight
1 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
1 5 (83.33%) Security Operations
1 5 (83.33%) SIEM
1 5 (83.33%) Threat Detection
1 5 (83.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) McAfee ePO
1 5 (83.33%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Forcepoint
1 5 (83.33%) McAfee
1 5 (83.33%) Zscaler
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) Sophos
2 1 (16.67%) Ubiquiti
2 1 (16.67%) VMware