Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IKE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IKE over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 717 821 -
Rank change year-on-year +104 - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing IKE 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.001% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.008% 0.009% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,861 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,373 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.93% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,884 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £51,373 -
% change year-on-year +11.93% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IKE 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,608 11,209 12,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.55% 12.89% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,107 6,092 7,065
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £27,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -40.00% - -5.26%

IKE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IKE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IKE in the UK

IKE
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IKE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IKE

IKE
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IKE within the UK over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +102 1 £57,500 +11.93% 2
England +93 1 £57,500 +11.93% 2
South East - 1 £57,500 -

IKE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto