IPsec Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 472 583
Rank change year-on-year +33 +111 +207
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 28 124 44
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.36% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.50% 2.46% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18 54 41
10th Percentile £43,799 £33,005 £38,353
25th Percentile £53,875 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,250 £67,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £47,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +22.11% -11.21% -2.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,583 5,039 4,181
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.07% 14.81% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,996 3,112 3,257
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,750 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £53,951 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £74,258 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% -6.86% -2.86%

IPsec
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IPsec trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IPsec.

IPsec salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IPsec over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

IPsec salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (7.14%) Apache Solr
1 2 (7.14%) nginx
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) AWS Direct Connect
3 9 (32.14%) Azure
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (89.29%) BGP
2 21 (75.00%) OSPF
3 20 (71.43%) MPLS
4 17 (60.71%) VPN
4 17 (60.71%) WAN
5 16 (57.14%) Firewall
6 13 (46.43%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (46.43%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
7 12 (42.86%) LAN
7 12 (42.86%) WLAN
8 11 (39.29%) SD-WAN
9 10 (35.71%) NX-OS
10 7 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (25.00%) VXLAN
11 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
12 5 (17.86%) DNS
12 5 (17.86%) NetScaler
13 4 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (14.29%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Couchbase
1 2 (7.14%) MySQL
1 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Local Government
3 2 (7.14%) Police
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Senior
3 6 (21.43%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Lead
4 5 (17.86%) Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Infoblox Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Network Operations Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Software Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Software Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Network Architect
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) JSON
1 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (7.14%) YAML
2 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 15 (53.57%) Data Centre
2 10 (35.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) PKI
3 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Change Management
2 10 (35.71%) Cloud Security
2 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (17.86%) Data Centre Operations
5 5 (17.86%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (17.86%) Network Architecture
5 5 (17.86%) Network Design
5 5 (17.86%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (17.86%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (17.86%) Process Improvement
5 5 (17.86%) Product Management
5 5 (17.86%) Product Requirements
5 5 (17.86%) Runbook
5 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) C++
2 2 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) CCNP
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) CCNA
4 4 (14.29%) JNCIS
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
6 1 (3.57%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 4 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Firmware
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Cisco
2 14 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 11 (39.29%) SolarWinds
4 10 (35.71%) Dynatrace
4 10 (35.71%) Infoblox
5 7 (25.00%) Juniper
6 5 (17.86%) Fortinet
6 5 (17.86%) Meraki
7 2 (7.14%) F5
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
7 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.57%) LogRhythm
8 1 (3.57%) Tufin
8 1 (3.57%) VMware