IPsec Jobs in the West Midlands

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 218 243
Rank change year-on-year +32 +25 +30
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 16 40 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.38% 0.50% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.31% 4.05% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 16 30 11
10th Percentile - £25,950 £35,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £26,700 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £27,400 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +141.79% -39.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £77,500 £31,200 £47,500
90th Percentile £80,625 £60,375 £55,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -9.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 483 987 1,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.55% 12.23% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 306 788 501
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,125 £31,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -3.23%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,950 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,650 £73,751
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the West Midlands

IPsec
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for IPsec in the West Midlands

IPsec
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for IPsec in the West Midlands

IPsec
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Birmingham +32 12 £65,000 +137.23% 6
Solihull +2 3 £75,000 +178.81%
Staffordshire - 1 £53,688 -
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (6.25%) Apache Solr
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) BGP
2 14 (87.50%) MPLS
2 14 (87.50%) WAN
3 13 (81.25%) Junos
3 13 (81.25%) LAN
4 12 (75.00%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (6.25%) DNS
5 1 (6.25%) Firewall
5 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security
5 1 (6.25%) OSPF
5 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (6.25%) VPN
5 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Couchbase
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Advertising
3 1 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Architect
1 14 (87.50%) Network Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Network Architect
2 1 (6.25%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Juniper Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Lead
2 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Team Leader
2 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
2 1 (6.25%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Network Design
1 14 (87.50%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (56.25%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (6.25%) Availability Management
3 1 (6.25%) Change Management
3 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL
3 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.25%) Network Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.25%) Release Management
3 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
3 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) CCNP
1 15 (93.75%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (87.50%) CCNA
2 14 (87.50%) JNCIS
2 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
3 12 (75.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (62.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Cisco
1 15 (93.75%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) Aruba
2 1 (6.25%) F5