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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 607 581
Rank change year-on-year +114 -26 +123
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 80 152 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.33% 1.56% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 73 85 67
10th Percentile £33,500 £26,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £26,700 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £32,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -34.34% -5.71%
75th Percentile £71,250 £52,500 £54,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £57,500 £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 6,004 9,767 10,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.36% 13.76% 18.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,209 7,083 4,769
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,934
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% -3.23%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,550 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,074 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -5.00% -4.76%

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 11 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 11 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 +103 31 £62,500 +17.92% 28
West Midlands +43 19 £65,000 +137.23% 3
Midlands +39 19 £65,000 +137.23% 5
North of England +43 12 £52,500 +50.00% 15
South West +98 10 £32,250 +7.50% 2
North West -15 10 £55,000 +57.14% 7
Scotland +106 4 £40,000 +23.08% 8
Northern Ireland +39 3 £85,000 - 1
Yorkshire +61 2 £44,700 -28.48% 8
East of England +39 2 £58,500 -6.40% 8
Wales +32 1 £37,733 -8.12%
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 9 (11.25%) Apache Solr
1 9 (11.25%) nginx
2 8 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (2.50%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (15.00%) Azure
3 8 (10.00%) AWS
3 8 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.00%) SaaS
5 4 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) GCP
6 2 (2.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 45 (56.25%) BGP
2 38 (47.50%) VPN
3 36 (45.00%) WAN
4 34 (42.50%) LAN
5 28 (35.00%) Firewall
6 24 (30.00%) MPLS
6 24 (30.00%) OSPF
6 24 (30.00%) VLAN
7 22 (27.50%) TCP/IP
8 21 (26.25%) Junos
9 19 (23.75%) Cisco IOS
9 19 (23.75%) DNS
10 17 (21.25%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
11 16 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (17.50%) SSL
13 12 (15.00%) Wireless
14 10 (12.50%) EIGRP
14 10 (12.50%) HSRP
15 9 (11.25%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) Couchbase
1 9 (11.25%) MySQL
1 9 (11.25%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
General
1 24 (30.00%) Finance
2 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.00%) Local Government
3 4 (5.00%) Police
4 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.50%) Advertising
5 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (1.25%) Aviation
6 1 (1.25%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 23 (28.75%) Architect
3 22 (27.50%) Network Architect
4 17 (21.25%) Senior
5 8 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) IT Support
8 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) GCP DevOps
8 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) IT Support Technician
9 4 (5.00%) IT Technician
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Support Technician
9 4 (5.00%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (7.50%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.00%) JSON
3 4 (5.00%) YAML
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.25%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 6 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.25%) PKI
5 4 (5.00%) Replication
6 3 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.00%) Windows
2 13 (16.25%) Windows Server
3 7 (8.75%) Linux
4 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.25%) Solaris
6 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.50%) Network Design
2 21 (26.25%) Technical Leadership
3 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
5 12 (15.00%) DevOps
6 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.50%) Customer Service
8 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
8 9 (11.25%) E-Commerce
8 9 (11.25%) ITIL
8 9 (11.25%) Software Delivery
9 8 (10.00%) Agile
10 7 (8.75%) Change Management
10 7 (8.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (7.50%) Mentoring
12 5 (6.25%) Migration
13 4 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
13 4 (5.00%) Load Balancing
13 4 (5.00%) Network Monitoring
13 4 (5.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.25%) PHP
2 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.25%) Bash
3 1 (1.25%) R
3 1 (1.25%) Scala
3 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 44 (55.00%) Cisco Certification
3 39 (48.75%) CCNP
4 37 (46.25%) CCNA
5 34 (42.50%) SC Cleared
6 21 (26.25%) JNCIS
7 7 (8.75%) DV Cleared
7 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (7.50%) Degree
9 3 (3.75%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) SLA
2 7 (8.75%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Hyper-V
2 7 (8.75%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.00%) Firmware
3 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.25%) Docker
4 1 (1.25%) LXC
4 1 (1.25%) Samba
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) Terraform
2 10 (12.50%) Ansible
3 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.00%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.50%) Proxmox
6 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 48 (60.00%) Cisco
2 31 (38.75%) Juniper
3 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
4 10 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 8 (10.00%) CheckPoint
6 7 (8.75%) F5
6 7 (8.75%) VMware
7 3 (3.75%) Aruba
7 3 (3.75%) Oracle
7 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.50%) Hyperion
8 2 (2.50%) JD Edwards
8 2 (2.50%) Meraki
8 2 (2.50%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (1.25%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.25%) HP
9 1 (1.25%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.25%) Meru Networks
9 1 (1.25%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.25%) Tufin