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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 455 455
Rank change year-on-year +46 0 +324
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 20 52 57
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.22% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.11% 1.40% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7 36 53
10th Percentile £55,600 - £38,353
25th Percentile £60,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,500 £60,625 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,600 £68,750 £92,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%

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 1,804 3,712 3,301
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.11% 15.90% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,043 1,607 2,760
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

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

IPsec
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing IPsec

IPsec
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IPsec over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

IPsec salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
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 1 (5.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
1 10 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) BGP
1 18 (90.00%) VPN
2 15 (75.00%) Firewall
2 15 (75.00%) OSPF
3 13 (65.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 13 (65.00%) MPLS
3 13 (65.00%) WAN
3 13 (65.00%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (60.00%) SD-WAN
5 11 (55.00%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (50.00%) NX-OS
6 10 (50.00%) WLAN
7 9 (45.00%) LAN
8 5 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (25.00%) NetScaler
8 5 (25.00%) VXLAN
9 4 (20.00%) DNS
10 3 (15.00%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (15.00%) DHCP
10 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Lead
4 5 (25.00%) Infoblox Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Network Operations Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Design Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Network Design Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Design Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Network Design Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) ICT Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) GCP DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Change Management
1 10 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 5 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 5 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 5 (25.00%) Runbook
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Network Design
4 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (10.00%) Change Control
5 2 (10.00%) High Availability
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) CCNP
1 7 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) CCNA
3 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) JNCIS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Firmware
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) pfSense
4 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) SolarWinds
3 11 (55.00%) CheckPoint
4 10 (50.00%) Dynatrace
4 10 (50.00%) Infoblox
5 7 (35.00%) Meraki
6 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
7 3 (15.00%) Juniper
7 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
7 3 (15.00%) VMware
8 2 (10.00%) Dell
8 2 (10.00%) Zscaler
9 1 (5.00%) Microsoft