Hybrid/Remote IPsec Job Trends

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring IPsec skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 398 422
Rank change year-on-year +52 +24 +231
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 19 42 46
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.37% 1.87% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12 30 39
10th Percentile £32,800 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,783 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.85% +23.81%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,188 £76,250
90th Percentile - £87,500 £84,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.17% +14.29% -4.55%

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 1,388 2,244 2,821
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.18% 13.17% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 908 1,281 2,383
10th Percentile £27,780 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,238 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,875 £86,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IPsec and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IPsec job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IPsec.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IPsec

IPsec
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IPsec over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

IPsec salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (21.05%) SaaS
3 4 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) Google Workspace
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.53%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (89.47%) VPN
2 15 (78.95%) BGP
3 13 (68.42%) Firewall
4 12 (63.16%) LAN
4 12 (63.16%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (57.89%) OSPF
6 9 (47.37%) WAN
7 8 (42.11%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (42.11%) MPLS
8 7 (36.84%) DNS
8 7 (36.84%) SD-WAN
8 7 (36.84%) VLAN
9 6 (31.58%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (26.32%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (26.32%) DHCP
10 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
11 4 (21.05%) Junos
11 4 (21.05%) NetScaler
11 4 (21.05%) NX-OS
11 4 (21.05%) VXLAN
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Network Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (21.05%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Design Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Firewall Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Network Design Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Design Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Network Design Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Data Centre
2 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.53%) Driving Licence
4 2 (10.53%) iPad
4 2 (10.53%) iPhone
4 2 (10.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
2 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) ITIL
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (21.05%) Network Design
3 4 (21.05%) Network Segmentation
3 4 (21.05%) Project Management
3 4 (21.05%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (21.05%) Runbook
3 4 (21.05%) Zero Trust
4 3 (15.79%) Change Control
4 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.79%) SIEM
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.53%) High Availability
5 2 (10.53%) Inventory Management
5 2 (10.53%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) CCNP
1 9 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (21.05%) CCNA
4 4 (21.05%) JNCIS
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (10.53%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.79%) Firmware
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.53%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 7 (36.84%) Meraki
2 7 (36.84%) SolarWinds
3 6 (31.58%) VMware
4 5 (26.32%) CheckPoint
4 5 (26.32%) Palo Alto
5 4 (21.05%) Dynatrace
5 4 (21.05%) Fortinet
5 4 (21.05%) Juniper
5 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (15.79%) Dell
6 3 (15.79%) Zscaler
7 2 (10.53%) Google
8 1 (5.26%) F5