IPsec Jobs in the UK excluding London

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 612 581
Rank change year-on-year +108 -31 +130
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 73 159 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.04% 1.61% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 70 89 70
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,099 £26,700 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £35,000 £49,625
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -29.47% -9.77%
75th Percentile £70,938 £52,500 £54,875
90th Percentile £82,625 £57,750 £58,750
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,027 9,853 10,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.84% 13.21% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,301 7,110 4,617
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,000 £58,750 £60,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the UK excluding London

IPsec
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IPsec in the UK excluding London

IPsec
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IPsec in the UK excluding London

IPsec
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
South East +86 29 £62,500 +17.92% 26
Midlands +54 17 £66,250 +141.79% 11
West Midlands +36 17 £66,250 +141.79% 5
South West +98 9 £32,000 +6.67% 5
North of England +28 9 £55,000 +57.14% 5
North West -12 7 £62,500 +78.57% 3
Scotland +99 4 £40,000 +20.30% 7
East of England +46 3 £52,000 -16.80% 5
Yorkshire +54 2 £44,700 -28.48%
Northern Ireland +40 2 £85,000 -
Wales +41 1 £37,733 -8.12% 1
IPsec
UK

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (10.96%) Apache Solr
1 8 (10.96%) nginx
1 8 (10.96%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.37%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.37%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.92%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (16.44%) Azure
3 8 (10.96%) OneDrive
4 5 (6.85%) AWS
4 5 (6.85%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.48%) SaaS
5 4 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) GCP
6 1 (1.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (60.27%) BGP
2 34 (46.58%) VPN
3 33 (45.21%) WAN
4 32 (43.84%) LAN
5 25 (34.25%) OSPF
5 25 (34.25%) VLAN
6 24 (32.88%) MPLS
7 23 (31.51%) Firewall
8 21 (28.77%) TCP/IP
9 20 (27.40%) Junos
10 19 (26.03%) Cisco IOS
11 18 (24.66%) DNS
12 17 (23.29%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (21.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 14 (19.18%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (17.81%) SSL
16 10 (13.70%) DHCP
16 10 (13.70%) EIGRP
16 10 (13.70%) HSRP
16 10 (13.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) Couchbase
1 8 (10.96%) MySQL
1 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) GitLab
1 1 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 21 (28.77%) Finance
2 10 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (13.70%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.48%) Police
4 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.11%) Local Government
4 3 (4.11%) Retail
4 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.74%) Advertising
6 1 (1.37%) Aviation
6 1 (1.37%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (31.51%) Architect
2 22 (30.14%) Network Architect
2 22 (30.14%) Network Engineer
3 14 (19.18%) Senior
4 8 (10.96%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (9.59%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) GCP DevOps
6 6 (8.22%) IT Support
6 6 (8.22%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) IT Support Technician
8 4 (5.48%) IT Technician
8 4 (5.48%) Lead
8 4 (5.48%) Lead DevOps
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Support Technician
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (9.59%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.48%) JSON
3 4 (5.48%) YAML
4 1 (1.37%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.37%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.96%) Driving Licence
3 6 (8.22%) PKI
4 4 (5.48%) Replication
5 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) SCADA
7 1 (1.37%) Smartcard
7 1 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.92%) Windows
2 14 (19.18%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.22%) Linux
4 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.37%) Solaris
5 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.37%) Unix
5 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) Network Design
2 21 (28.77%) Technical Leadership
3 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (20.55%) Requirements Gathering
5 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (13.70%) Customer Service
6 9 (12.33%) DevOps
7 8 (10.96%) Agile
7 8 (10.96%) Change Management
7 8 (10.96%) CI/CD
7 8 (10.96%) E-Commerce
7 8 (10.96%) Software Delivery
8 7 (9.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (8.22%) ITIL
10 5 (6.85%) Migration
11 4 (5.48%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (5.48%) Mentoring
11 4 (5.48%) Project Delivery
12 3 (4.11%) Load Balancing
12 3 (4.11%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.96%) PHP
2 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.37%) Bash
3 1 (1.37%) R
3 1 (1.37%) Scala
3 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (61.64%) Security Cleared
2 41 (56.16%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (47.95%) CCNP
4 34 (46.58%) CCNA
5 33 (45.21%) SC Cleared
6 21 (28.77%) JNCIS
7 8 (10.96%) DV Cleared
8 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (5.48%) Degree
10 3 (4.11%) A+ Certification
11 1 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.55%) SLA
2 5 (6.85%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) Hyper-V
2 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.74%) Firmware
5 1 (1.37%) Docker
5 1 (1.37%) LXC
5 1 (1.37%) Samba
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Ansible
1 9 (12.33%) Terraform
2 8 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.48%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.74%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.74%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.37%) Nessus
6 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.37%) WMI
6 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (61.64%) Cisco
2 30 (41.10%) Juniper
3 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.96%) CheckPoint
4 8 (10.96%) VMware
5 7 (9.59%) F5
5 7 (9.59%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.11%) Aruba
7 2 (2.74%) Oracle
7 2 (2.74%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.37%) Avaya
8 1 (1.37%) Dell
8 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.37%) HP
8 1 (1.37%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.37%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.37%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.37%) Riverbed
8 1 (1.37%) Tufin
8 1 (1.37%) Veeam