IPsec Job Trends in London

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring IPsec skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 387 419
Rank change year-on-year +17 +32 +198
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 12 37 30
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.088% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.71% 1.83% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7 30 25
10th Percentile £39,000 £46,000 £31,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £58,125 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £71,875 £88,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £99,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,688 2,022 2,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.31% 12.79% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 907 1,139 1,773
10th Percentile £28,697 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

IPsec job vacancy trend in London

IPsec
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing IPsec.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing IPsec

IPsec
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec in London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for IPsec in London

IPsec
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the London region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
East London - 2 - - 3
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Direct Connect
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (16.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 10 (83.33%) BGP
2 10 (83.33%) OSPF
2 10 (83.33%) VPN
3 7 (58.33%) SD-WAN
3 7 (58.33%) TCP/IP
3 7 (58.33%) WAN
3 7 (58.33%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (50.00%) Wireless
5 5 (41.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (41.67%) LAN
6 4 (33.33%) MPLS
6 4 (33.33%) SSL
7 3 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (25.00%) NetScaler
7 3 (25.00%) NX-OS
7 3 (25.00%) VLAN
7 3 (25.00%) VXLAN
7 3 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) ICT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Sales Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) iPad
2 2 (16.67%) iPhone
2 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Runbook
3 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) Inventory Management
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Network Design
4 2 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Presales
4 2 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (16.67%) CCIE
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) CCNA
4 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) SolarWinds
3 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 3 (25.00%) Arista
4 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (25.00%) Meraki
4 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (16.67%) Brocade
5 2 (16.67%) Google
6 1 (8.33%) Dell
6 1 (8.33%) HP
6 1 (8.33%) Juniper