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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 479 616
Rank change year-on-year +93 +137 +118
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 46 104 46
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.31% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.48% 1.97% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 33 41 43
10th Percentile £43,799 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,384 £45,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £57,500 £60,473
90th Percentile £87,500 £63,750 £89,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -8.70%

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 3,109 5,274 4,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.95% 15.58% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,624 3,414 3,541
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%

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

IPsec
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IPsec over the 6 months to 7 May 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 10 (21.74%) Apache Solr
1 10 (21.74%) nginx
2 1 (2.17%) IIS
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (4.35%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) AWS Direct Connect
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.70%) SaaS
5 4 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.35%) GCP
6 2 (4.35%) OCI
7 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (58.70%) BGP
2 24 (52.17%) VPN
3 23 (50.00%) OSPF
4 22 (47.83%) Firewall
5 20 (43.48%) MPLS
5 20 (43.48%) WAN
6 18 (39.13%) DNS
6 18 (39.13%) TCP/IP
7 14 (30.43%) SD-WAN
8 13 (28.26%) LAN
9 11 (23.91%) Cisco Firepower
9 11 (23.91%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (21.74%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (21.74%) HTTPS
10 10 (21.74%) WLAN
11 9 (19.57%) Wireless
12 8 (17.39%) NX-OS
13 7 (15.22%) VLAN
14 6 (13.04%) DHCP
14 6 (13.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) Couchbase
1 10 (21.74%) MySQL
1 10 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
General
1 18 (39.13%) Finance
2 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Local Government
4 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.52%) Police
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) Senior
2 13 (28.26%) Network Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Lead
5 6 (13.04%) GCP DevOps
5 6 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Consultant
6 5 (10.87%) Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Software Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Software Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Network Architect
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (8.70%) JSON
2 4 (8.70%) YAML
3 3 (6.52%) 802.1X
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.17%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.39%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.87%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.70%) PKI
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Linux
2 7 (15.22%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.17%) Solaris
4 1 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (36.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (32.61%) DevOps
4 14 (30.43%) Change Management
5 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 10 (21.74%) E-Commerce
5 10 (21.74%) Software Delivery
6 8 (17.39%) Cloud Security
6 8 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (13.04%) ITIL
8 5 (10.87%) Coaching
8 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
8 5 (10.87%) Network Design
8 5 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (10.87%) Product Management
8 5 (10.87%) Product Requirements
8 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
9 4 (8.70%) Data Centre Operations
9 4 (8.70%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) PHP
2 3 (6.52%) C++
3 1 (2.17%) Bash
3 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (19.57%) CCNP
3 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
4 8 (17.39%) CCNA
5 4 (8.70%) JNCIS
6 2 (4.35%) Degree
7 1 (2.17%) CCIE
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 4 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.70%) Firmware
2 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) LXC
3 1 (2.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 13 (28.26%) Terraform
2 11 (23.91%) Ansible
3 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.35%) Proxmox
5 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (43.48%) Cisco
2 12 (26.09%) CheckPoint
3 11 (23.91%) SolarWinds
4 8 (17.39%) Dynatrace
4 8 (17.39%) Infoblox
5 7 (15.22%) Juniper
6 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
7 4 (8.70%) F5
7 4 (8.70%) Fortinet
7 4 (8.70%) Meraki
7 4 (8.70%) Palo Alto
8 3 (6.52%) Oracle
8 3 (6.52%) VMware
9 2 (4.35%) Avaya
9 2 (4.35%) ForeScout
9 2 (4.35%) Hyperion
9 2 (4.35%) JD Edwards
9 2 (4.35%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (4.35%) SevOne
10 1 (2.17%) LogRhythm