IPsec Jobs in England

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring IPsec skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IPsec over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 662 689
Rank change year-on-year +64 +27 +238
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 95 190 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.20% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.03% 1.53% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 79 120 99
10th Percentile £34,500 £26,700 £33,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £30,938 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -9.48%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £63,875 £62,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -8.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,222 12,412 13,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.69% 12.86% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,959 8,535 6,882
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,375 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £38,500 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year -18.95% -7.50% -2.19%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPsec in England.

Salary trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for IPsec in England

IPsec
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +89 35 £50,500 +1.00% 117
South East +82 26 £62,500 +17.92% 60
West Midlands +46 15 £65,000 +137.23% 19
Midlands +45 15 £65,000 +137.23% 34
South West +102 8 £31,750 +5.83% 22
North of England +41 8 £55,000 +40.13% 45
North West -7 6 £70,000 +78.34% 24
East of England +33 3 £52,000 -16.80% 34
Yorkshire +70 2 £44,700 -28.48% 17
IPsec
UK

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (5.26%) Apache Solr
1 5 (5.26%) nginx
1 5 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.05%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.21%) Azure
2 21 (22.11%) AWS
3 13 (13.68%) AWS Direct Connect
4 12 (12.63%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (8.42%) Entra ID
6 7 (7.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.21%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.21%) SaaS
8 1 (1.05%) IaaS
8 1 (1.05%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 68 (71.58%) BGP
2 58 (61.05%) VPN
3 54 (56.84%) WAN
4 52 (54.74%) Firewall
5 50 (52.63%) OSPF
6 47 (49.47%) LAN
7 43 (45.26%) MPLS
8 31 (32.63%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (30.53%) Cisco ASA
10 26 (27.37%) Cisco Firepower
10 26 (27.37%) TCP/IP
11 24 (25.26%) VLAN
12 23 (24.21%) SD-WAN
13 21 (22.11%) EIGRP
14 19 (20.00%) Junos
15 18 (18.95%) Cisco IOS
15 18 (18.95%) DNS
16 17 (17.89%) SSL
16 17 (17.89%) WLAN
17 16 (16.84%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) Couchbase
1 5 (5.26%) MySQL
1 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.05%) Power BI
2 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.05%) GitLab
1 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.00%) Finance
3 16 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Police
7 3 (3.16%) Local Government
7 3 (3.16%) Retail
8 2 (2.11%) Advertising
9 1 (1.05%) Aviation
9 1 (1.05%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (42.11%) Network Engineer
2 22 (23.16%) Architect
3 21 (22.11%) Network Architect
4 9 (9.47%) Analyst
4 9 (9.47%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) Lead
4 9 (9.47%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Network Operations Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Operations Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Senior
6 6 (6.32%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) 802.1X
2 5 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.21%) JSON
3 4 (4.21%) YAML
4 1 (1.05%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (33.68%) Data Centre
2 14 (14.74%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.42%) Driving Licence
4 7 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.32%) IPTV
6 4 (4.21%) PKI
7 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) SCADA
8 1 (1.05%) Smartcard
8 1 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.68%) Windows
2 10 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.16%) Linux
4 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.05%) Solaris
4 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.05%) Unix
4 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.21%) Network Design
2 22 (23.16%) Change Management
3 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
4 16 (16.84%) ITIL
5 14 (14.74%) Requirements Gathering
6 12 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (10.53%) Agile
7 10 (10.53%) Cloud Security
7 10 (10.53%) Network Management
8 9 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (9.47%) Process Improvement
9 8 (8.42%) Business Continuity
9 8 (8.42%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (8.42%) Network Segmentation
9 8 (8.42%) Runbook
10 7 (7.37%) High-Frequency Trading
10 7 (7.37%) Low Latency
10 7 (7.37%) Network Architecture
11 6 (6.32%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.26%) PHP
2 1 (1.05%) Bash
2 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.05%) Python
2 1 (1.05%) R
2 1 (1.05%) Scala
2 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (55.79%) Cisco Certification
2 45 (47.37%) CCNA
3 41 (43.16%) CCNP
3 41 (43.16%) Security Cleared
4 29 (30.53%) SC Cleared
5 20 (21.05%) JNCIS
6 8 (8.42%) Degree
6 8 (8.42%) DV Cleared
7 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.21%) CCIE
8 4 (4.21%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (4.21%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (4.21%) GIAC
8 4 (4.21%) MCSA
9 3 (3.16%) A+ Certification
9 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.16%) CCSA
9 3 (3.16%) CCSE
10 1 (1.05%) CISA
10 1 (1.05%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) SLA
2 5 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.21%) NCSC
4 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (9.47%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.37%) Firmware
2 7 (7.37%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.05%) Docker
4 1 (1.05%) LXC
4 1 (1.05%) Samba
4 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.32%) Ansible
1 6 (6.32%) Terraform
2 5 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.21%) FortiGate
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.05%) Nessus
4 1 (1.05%) WMI
4 1 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (69.47%) Cisco
2 28 (29.47%) Juniper
3 27 (28.42%) CheckPoint
4 26 (27.37%) SolarWinds
5 17 (17.89%) Fortinet
6 15 (15.79%) Meraki
7 13 (13.68%) Dynatrace
8 12 (12.63%) Microsoft
9 11 (11.58%) F5
9 11 (11.58%) Palo Alto
10 10 (10.53%) Infoblox
11 8 (8.42%) Arista
11 8 (8.42%) VMware
12 6 (6.32%) Bloomberg
12 6 (6.32%) Refinitiv
13 5 (5.26%) Avaya
14 4 (4.21%) SevOne
15 3 (3.16%) Aruba
15 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
16 2 (2.11%) HP