Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 699 747
Rank change year-on-year +121 +48 +194
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 122 205 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.54% 1.52% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 105 130 106
10th Percentile £37,500 £26,700 £35,813
25th Percentile £46,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,563 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £32,500 £49,625
% change year-on-year +92.31% -34.51% -5.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,925 13,519 15,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.53% 13.64% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,345 9,433 8,018
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -2.64%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPsec.

Salary trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +93 111 £62,500 +31.58% 90
UK excluding London +106 80 £62,500 +92.31% 65
Work from Home +89 44 £72,500 +52.63% 54
London +96 36 £57,750 +15.50% 52
South East +101 31 £62,500 +17.92% 27
Midlands +43 19 £65,000 +137.23% 5
West Midlands +39 19 £65,000 +137.23% 3
North of England +39 12 £52,500 +50.00% 15
South West +102 10 £32,250 +7.50% 2
North West -4 10 £55,000 +57.14% 7
Scotland +116 4 £40,000 +23.08% 7
Northern Ireland +35 3 £85,000 - 1
Yorkshire +55 2 £44,700 -28.48% 8
East of England +42 2 £58,500 -6.40% 8
Wales +33 1 £37,733 -8.12%

IPsec
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (10.66%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.20%) Apache Solr
2 10 (8.20%) nginx
3 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.82%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.82%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.64%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 30 (24.59%) Azure
2 23 (18.85%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (16.39%) AWS
4 13 (10.66%) Entra ID
5 10 (8.20%) AWS Direct Connect
6 8 (6.56%) OneDrive
6 8 (6.56%) SaaS
7 6 (4.92%) Mimecast
7 6 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.10%) IaaS
9 4 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.28%) PaaS
10 2 (1.64%) GCP
10 2 (1.64%) OCI
11 1 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 72 (59.02%) BGP
2 69 (56.56%) VPN
3 60 (49.18%) WAN
4 55 (45.08%) Firewall
5 51 (41.80%) OSPF
6 50 (40.98%) LAN
7 45 (36.89%) MPLS
8 33 (27.05%) DNS
8 33 (27.05%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (24.59%) TCP/IP
10 27 (22.13%) Cisco ASA
10 27 (22.13%) VLAN
11 25 (20.49%) Cisco Firepower
11 25 (20.49%) SD-WAN
12 22 (18.03%) DHCP
13 21 (17.21%) Junos
13 21 (17.21%) SSL
14 19 (15.57%) Cisco IOS
15 18 (14.75%) EIGRP
16 17 (13.93%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) Couchbase
1 10 (8.20%) MySQL
1 10 (8.20%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.46%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.82%) Power BI
General
1 28 (22.95%) Finance
2 24 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.38%) Banking
5 5 (4.10%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.28%) Local Government
6 4 (3.28%) Police
7 2 (1.64%) Advertising
7 2 (1.64%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.64%) Retail
8 1 (0.82%) Aviation
8 1 (0.82%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (36.07%) Network Engineer
2 27 (22.13%) Senior
3 23 (18.85%) Architect
4 22 (18.03%) Network Architect
5 10 (8.20%) Lead
6 9 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (6.56%) Analyst
7 8 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Cisco Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) IT Support
9 6 (4.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Network Operations Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.20%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (7.38%) 802.1X
3 4 (3.28%) JSON
3 4 (3.28%) YAML
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.82%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (24.59%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.02%) Management Information System
2 11 (9.02%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.56%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.74%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.10%) IPTV
5 5 (4.10%) PKI
6 4 (3.28%) Replication
7 3 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.82%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.82%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 23 (18.85%) Windows
2 13 (10.66%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.74%) Linux
4 4 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.64%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.82%) Solaris
6 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.05%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (22.13%) Network Design
3 21 (17.21%) Technical Leadership
4 20 (16.39%) ITIL
5 19 (15.57%) Change Management
6 18 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (12.30%) Requirements Gathering
8 13 (10.66%) DevOps
9 11 (9.02%) Agile
9 11 (9.02%) Network Management
10 10 (8.20%) CI/CD
10 10 (8.20%) Customer Service
10 10 (8.20%) E-Commerce
10 10 (8.20%) Software Delivery
11 8 (6.56%) Cloud Security
11 8 (6.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (5.74%) Business Continuity Planning
12 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (5.74%) Process Improvement
12 7 (5.74%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.20%) PHP
2 8 (6.56%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.46%) C++
4 1 (0.82%) Bash
4 1 (0.82%) R
4 1 (0.82%) Scala
4 1 (0.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (45.08%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (38.52%) CCNA
3 45 (36.89%) CCNP
3 45 (36.89%) Security Cleared
4 34 (27.87%) SC Cleared
5 21 (17.21%) JNCIS
6 12 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (7.38%) Degree
8 7 (5.74%) DV Cleared
9 5 (4.10%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (4.10%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (4.10%) GIAC
9 5 (4.10%) MCSA
10 3 (2.46%) A+ Certification
10 3 (2.46%) CCIE
11 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.64%) CCSA
11 2 (1.64%) CCSE
12 1 (0.82%) CISA
12 1 (0.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.30%) SLA
2 7 (5.74%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.10%) NCSC
4 5 (4.10%) QA
5 4 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (12.30%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.20%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.56%) Firmware
5 1 (0.82%) Docker
5 1 (0.82%) LXC
5 1 (0.82%) Samba
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (10.66%) Terraform
2 11 (9.02%) Ansible
2 11 (9.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (8.20%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.10%) FortiGate
5 4 (3.28%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.64%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.82%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 70 (57.38%) Cisco
2 31 (25.41%) Juniper
3 26 (21.31%) Microsoft
4 25 (20.49%) CheckPoint
5 24 (19.67%) SolarWinds
6 16 (13.11%) Fortinet
6 16 (13.11%) Meraki
6 16 (13.11%) Palo Alto
7 14 (11.48%) VMware
8 10 (8.20%) Dynatrace
8 10 (8.20%) F5
9 9 (7.38%) Arista
10 8 (6.56%) Infoblox
11 5 (4.10%) Bloomberg
11 5 (4.10%) Refinitiv
12 4 (3.28%) Riverbed
13 3 (2.46%) Aruba
13 3 (2.46%) Avaya
13 3 (2.46%) Citrix
13 3 (2.46%) Oracle