Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 23 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for IPsec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IPsec over the 6 months to 23 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
23 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 504 326 265
Rank change year-on-year -178 -61 +11
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 52 14 22
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.74% 0.96% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 46 11 9
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £43,750 £54,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £90,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +50.00% +25.65%
75th Percentile £78,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £82,500 - -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £54,486
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.12% +3.78%

IPsec is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,992 1,454 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.29% 13.45% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,301 1,284 908
10th Percentile £35,750 £33,575 £34,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £77,875
UK median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.00% +5.26% -

IPsec
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IPsec trend for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec.

IPsec salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IPsec over the 6 months to 23 January 2022.

IPsec salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 23 January 2022, IPsec job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for IPsec.

1 48 (92.31%) VPN
2 46 (88.46%) Firewall
3 35 (67.31%) Cisco
4 30 (57.69%) BGP
5 29 (55.77%) DNS
6 26 (50.00%) SSL
7 25 (48.08%) OSPF
8 24 (46.15%) Windows
8 24 (46.15%) Azure
9 23 (44.23%) Linux
10 21 (40.38%) Microsoft
10 21 (40.38%) DHCP
10 21 (40.38%) Network Security
11 20 (38.46%) Windows Server
12 19 (36.54%) WAN
12 19 (36.54%) LAN
13 18 (34.62%) Degree
13 18 (34.62%) VMware
14 17 (32.69%) Broadband
15 15 (28.85%) TCP/IP
15 15 (28.85%) Red Hat
15 15 (28.85%) Palo Alto
16 14 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (26.92%) High Availability
16 14 (26.92%) iptables
16 14 (26.92%) Project Management
16 14 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
16 14 (26.92%) Migration
16 14 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
16 14 (26.92%) PowerShell

IPsec
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (15.38%) IIS
2 8 (15.38%) Oracle Workflow
2 8 (15.38%) WordPress
3 6 (11.54%) CMS
3 6 (11.54%) Confluence
3 6 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 6 (11.54%) Sitecore CMS
3 6 (11.54%) Umbraco
4 2 (3.85%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) Azure
2 14 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 10 (19.23%) AWS
4 10 (19.23%) IaaS
5 8 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (11.54%) Mimecast
6 6 (11.54%) OneDrive
6 6 (11.54%) PaaS
6 6 (11.54%) SaaS
7 2 (3.85%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.92%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.92%) GCP
8 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 48 (92.31%) VPN
2 46 (88.46%) Firewall
3 30 (57.69%) BGP
4 29 (55.77%) DNS
5 26 (50.00%) SSL
6 25 (48.08%) OSPF
7 21 (40.38%) DHCP
7 21 (40.38%) Network Security
8 19 (36.54%) LAN
8 19 (36.54%) WAN
9 17 (32.69%) Broadband
10 15 (28.85%) TCP/IP
11 13 (25.00%) IPv6
11 13 (25.00%) SNMP
12 11 (21.15%) MPLS
13 8 (15.38%) iSCSI
13 8 (15.38%) VLAN
13 8 (15.38%) VoIP
14 6 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) MariaDB
1 7 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) JIRA
1 6 (11.54%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.92%) Git (software)
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 5 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Finance
6 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Network Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) IT Manager
2 6 (11.54%) Support Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Analyst
4 4 (7.69%) Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 4 (7.69%) IP Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Remote Support Analyst
4 4 (7.69%) Remote Support Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Support Analyst
5 3 (5.77%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.54%) User Experience
3 5 (9.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (46.15%) Windows
2 23 (44.23%) Linux
3 20 (38.46%) Windows Server
4 13 (25.00%) CentOS
5 8 (15.38%) Android
5 8 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (15.38%) Solaris
5 8 (15.38%) Unix
5 8 (15.38%) Windows 10
6 6 (11.54%) Apple iOS
6 6 (11.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
1 14 (26.92%) High Availability
1 14 (26.92%) Migration
1 14 (26.92%) Project Management
2 13 (25.00%) Network Management
2 13 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 12 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
4 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (17.31%) Change Management
5 9 (17.31%) Computer Science
5 9 (17.31%) Incident Management
5 9 (17.31%) ITIL
5 9 (17.31%) Project Delivery
6 8 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (15.38%) IT Strategy
6 8 (15.38%) ITSM
6 8 (15.38%) Problem Management
6 8 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (15.38%) Server Management
6 8 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 10 (19.23%) Python
3 1 (1.92%) Perl
3 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Degree
2 9 (17.31%) CCNP
2 9 (17.31%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) CCNA
6 1 (1.92%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) NCSC
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) iptables
1 14 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (17.31%) Active Directory
3 8 (15.38%) NFS
3 8 (15.38%) vSphere
4 4 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.85%) Squid
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Ansible
1 13 (25.00%) Icinga
1 13 (25.00%) ZABBIX
2 10 (19.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (15.38%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 7 (13.46%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (13.46%) Nagios
4 7 (13.46%) Puppet
5 6 (11.54%) Grafana
6 2 (3.85%) cPanel
6 2 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.92%) Opscode Chef
7 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (67.31%) Cisco
2 21 (40.38%) Microsoft
3 18 (34.62%) VMware
4 15 (28.85%) Palo Alto
4 15 (28.85%) Red Hat
5 11 (21.15%) Juniper
6 10 (19.23%) SolarWinds
7 9 (17.31%) ServiceNow
8 8 (15.38%) Oracle
9 7 (13.46%) Fortinet
9 7 (13.46%) Huawei
9 7 (13.46%) Nokia
10 6 (11.54%) CheckPoint
10 6 (11.54%) HP
10 6 (11.54%) Sage
10 6 (11.54%) Sitecore
10 6 (11.54%) Sophos
11 5 (9.62%) MikroTik
12 3 (5.77%) Meraki
13 2 (3.85%) Apple