IPsec Contracts in England

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for IPsec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IPsec over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 521 598
Rank change year-on-year +145 +77 -47
Contract jobs citing IPsec 177 126 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.64% 2.11% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 53 119
10th Percentile £263 £313 £375
25th Percentile £325 £388 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £515 £688 £632
90th Percentile £554 £830 £725
UK median daily rate £400 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 6
10th Percentile £18.98 £28.36 £26.50
25th Percentile £19.69 £62.00 £30.50
Median hourly rate £21.25 £69.11 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.25% +55.30% +157.97%
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.25 £48.38
90th Percentile £23.33 £80.78 £49.76
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £77.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -72.58% +112.33% +71.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,859 5,983 7,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 12.22% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,933 3,910 5,113
10th Percentile £208 £235 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 431 302
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.83
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.90 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.24
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.25
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.51% +4.63%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPsec in England.

Daily rate trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in England

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPsec in England.

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +91 85 £350 -17.65% 7
West Midlands +77 85 £350 -17.65% 7
London +100 50 £525 -25.00% 15
South East +15 18 £400 -11.11% 2
North of England +26 15 £513 +46.43% 2
North West +17 15 £513 +51.85% 2
South West +18 6 £504 - 1
IPsec
UK

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (2.26%) Apache Solr
1 4 (2.26%) MQSeries
1 4 (2.26%) nginx
2 2 (1.13%) IIS
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 22 (12.43%) Azure
2 18 (10.17%) AWS
3 12 (6.78%) GCP
4 7 (3.95%) OCI
4 7 (3.95%) SaaS
5 5 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (2.26%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.69%) PaaS
8 2 (1.13%) IaaS
8 2 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.56%) GitHub
9 1 (0.56%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 138 (77.97%) BGP
2 112 (63.28%) MPLS
3 102 (57.63%) WAN
4 95 (53.67%) VPN
5 79 (44.63%) Firewall
6 62 (35.03%) OSPF
7 53 (29.94%) Junos
8 39 (22.03%) LAN
9 37 (20.90%) Cisco ASA
10 31 (17.51%) Wireless
11 28 (15.82%) HSRP
12 26 (14.69%) DNS
12 26 (14.69%) EIGRP
13 23 (12.99%) Cisco Nexus
14 21 (11.86%) Cisco Firepower
14 21 (11.86%) SNMP
15 19 (10.73%) Cisco ISE
15 19 (10.73%) Spanning Tree
16 17 (9.60%) Wi-Fi
17 16 (9.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.26%) Couchbase
1 4 (2.26%) MySQL
1 4 (2.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 24 (13.56%) Public Sector
2 16 (9.04%) Finance
3 13 (7.34%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.82%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.26%) Legal
7 3 (1.69%) Banking
7 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Advertising
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (53.11%) Network Engineer
2 38 (21.47%) Network Support
3 34 (19.21%) WAN Engineer
4 29 (16.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 28 (15.82%) 3rd Line Support
6 21 (11.86%) Senior
7 20 (11.30%) Senior Network Engineer
8 17 (9.60%) Support Engineer
9 15 (8.47%) 2nd Line Support
10 11 (6.21%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 11 (6.21%) Architect
10 11 (6.21%) Network Support Engineer
11 10 (5.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 10 (5.65%) Network Specialist
12 9 (5.08%) Network Architect
13 7 (3.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 7 (3.95%) Cisco Engineer
13 7 (3.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 6 (3.39%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 6 (3.39%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.78%) 802.1X
1 12 (6.78%) Jinja
2 5 (2.82%) LDAP
3 4 (2.26%) JSON
3 4 (2.26%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.26%) SAML
3 4 (2.26%) YAML
4 2 (1.13%) Web Services
5 1 (0.56%) OAuth
5 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.56%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 78 (44.07%) PKI
2 30 (16.95%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) IoT
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.91%) Linux
2 8 (4.52%) Unix
3 6 (3.39%) Windows
4 4 (2.26%) CentOS
5 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.68%) Load Balancing
2 28 (15.82%) Network Design
3 25 (14.12%) Change Management
4 22 (12.43%) ITIL
5 21 (11.86%) Migration
6 18 (10.17%) DevOps
6 18 (10.17%) ITSM
7 17 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (7.91%) Network Management
10 11 (6.21%) Configuration Management
11 9 (5.08%) Agile
11 9 (5.08%) Incident Management
12 8 (4.52%) Kalman Filter
12 8 (4.52%) Roadmaps
12 8 (4.52%) Threat Management
13 7 (3.95%) Network Virtualisation
13 7 (3.95%) Problem Management
14 6 (3.39%) Computer Science
14 6 (3.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.30%) Python
2 15 (8.47%) Perl
3 12 (6.78%) Tcl
4 4 (2.26%) PHP
4 4 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (59.89%) Security Cleared
2 54 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 52 (29.38%) Cisco Certification
4 47 (26.55%) CCNP
5 32 (18.08%) CCNA
6 8 (4.52%) CCIE
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.82%) Degree
8 3 (1.69%) JNCIA
8 3 (1.69%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.13%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.13%) CCDP
9 2 (1.13%) CCIP
9 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.08%) SLA
2 6 (3.39%) QA
3 4 (2.26%) GDPR
3 4 (2.26%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.26%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (10.73%) Firmware
2 6 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.26%) Samba
5 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) NFS
6 1 (0.56%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (10.73%) Ansible
2 13 (7.34%) Terraform
3 12 (6.78%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.39%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (2.82%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.13%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (62.15%) Juniper
2 77 (43.50%) Cisco
3 41 (23.16%) Palo Alto
4 26 (14.69%) SolarWinds
5 21 (11.86%) F5
6 14 (7.91%) Citrix
6 14 (7.91%) Microsoft
7 13 (7.34%) CheckPoint
8 12 (6.78%) Fortinet
8 12 (6.78%) Infoblox
9 9 (5.08%) Google
10 6 (3.39%) Extreme Networks
10 6 (3.39%) VMware
11 4 (2.26%) Nokia
11 4 (2.26%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.69%) Arista
12 3 (1.69%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.69%) New Relic
13 2 (1.13%) SonicWALL
13 2 (1.13%) Zscaler