IPsec Job Trends in the Midlands

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring IPsec skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 257 226
Rank change year-on-year +37 -31 +125
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 4 30 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.071% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% 2.73% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 15
10th Percentile £58,100 £25,950 £35,375
25th Percentile £59,750 £26,325 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +21.95% -23.36%
75th Percentile £81,875 £56,250 £55,250
90th Percentile £90,500 £59,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +1.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 839 1,099 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.83% 10.95% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 501 609 751
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -3.95% -6.84%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £57,875
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £41,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -18.00% -3.85% -0.95%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the Midlands

IPsec
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IPsec.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IPsec

IPsec
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for IPsec in the Midlands

IPsec
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
West Midlands +19 4 £65,000 +124.91% 8
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (25.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (25.00%) Junos
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Meraki
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper