IPsec Contracts in the UK excluding London

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 265 371 413
Rank change year-on-year +106 +42 -33
Contract jobs citing IPsec 129 80 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.88% 2.28% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 29 54
10th Percentile £263 £285 £375
25th Percentile £313 £338 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £413 £459
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -10.13% +14.75%
75th Percentile £455 £525 £549
90th Percentile £515 £585 £625
UK median daily rate £400 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 6
10th Percentile - £18.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £56.68 £26.19
Median hourly rate £19.00 £63.23 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.95% +42.09% +196.67%
75th Percentile £19.50 £78.12 £48.38
90th Percentile - £80.25 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,326 3,507 4,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.24% 14.99% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,901 2,205 2,609
10th Percentile £200 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +6.86% +11.13%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 322 236
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.88
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.47 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.85% -14.12% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.43 £60.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the UK excluding London

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the UK excluding London

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the UK excluding London

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the UK excluding London

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +42 4 £538 -2.27% 3
Wales +15 1 - -
IPsec
UK

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.10%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.10%) nginx
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (3.88%) PaaS
2 4 (3.10%) GCP
2 4 (3.10%) OCI
2 4 (3.10%) SaaS
3 3 (2.33%) Azure
4 1 (0.78%) AWS
4 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.78%) IaaS
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 102 (79.07%) BGP
2 94 (72.87%) MPLS
3 80 (62.02%) WAN
4 59 (45.74%) VPN
5 53 (41.09%) Junos
6 33 (25.58%) Firewall
7 25 (19.38%) OSPF
8 21 (16.28%) Cisco ASA
8 21 (16.28%) Cisco Firepower
9 20 (15.50%) HSRP
10 19 (14.73%) EIGRP
11 17 (13.18%) SNMP
12 16 (12.40%) Cisco ISE
12 16 (12.40%) Spanning Tree
13 15 (11.63%) LAN
14 13 (10.08%) NetScaler
14 13 (10.08%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (6.20%) DNS
16 7 (5.43%) TCP/IP
17 6 (4.65%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.10%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.10%) MySQL
1 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
General
1 21 (16.28%) Public Sector
2 6 (4.65%) Social Skills
3 5 (3.88%) Finance
4 4 (3.10%) Legal
4 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.78%) Advertising
5 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (49.61%) Network Engineer
2 36 (27.91%) Network Support
3 33 (25.58%) WAN Engineer
4 28 (21.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 27 (20.93%) 3rd Line Support
6 15 (11.63%) 2nd Line Support
6 15 (11.63%) Support Engineer
7 12 (9.30%) Senior
7 12 (9.30%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 9 (6.98%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (6.98%) Network Support Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 7 (5.43%) Architect
11 6 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Network Architect
13 4 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
14 3 (2.33%) Cloud Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.30%) Jinja
2 4 (3.10%) 802.1X
2 4 (3.10%) JSON
2 4 (3.10%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (3.10%) YAML
3 3 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.55%) LDAP
5 1 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (48.06%) PKI
2 12 (9.30%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.10%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.43%) Linux
2 4 (3.10%) CentOS
3 2 (1.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.78%) VMS
4 1 (0.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (37.21%) Load Balancing
2 25 (19.38%) Network Design
3 17 (13.18%) DevOps
4 16 (12.40%) ITIL
5 15 (11.63%) Change Management
6 13 (10.08%) Network Management
7 12 (9.30%) ITSM
8 10 (7.75%) Migration
9 9 (6.98%) Incident Management
10 7 (5.43%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (4.65%) Agile
12 5 (3.88%) CI/CD
12 5 (3.88%) Configuration Management
12 5 (3.88%) Microservices
13 4 (3.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (3.10%) Cost Reduction
13 4 (3.10%) Data Migration
13 4 (3.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 4 (3.10%) Network Monitoring
13 4 (3.10%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.30%) Perl
1 12 (9.30%) Python
1 12 (9.30%) Tcl
2 4 (3.10%) PHP
3 1 (0.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (76.74%) Security Cleared
2 47 (36.43%) SC Cleared
3 29 (22.48%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (18.60%) CCNA
5 23 (17.83%) CCNP
6 3 (2.33%) JNCIA
6 3 (2.33%) JNCIS
7 2 (1.55%) Degree
8 1 (0.78%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.78%) CCDP
8 1 (0.78%) CCIP
8 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.88%) QA
2 4 (3.10%) GDPR
2 4 (3.10%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.10%) NIST
3 3 (2.33%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (10.08%) Firmware
2 3 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) NFS
3 1 (0.78%) Samba
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (12.40%) Ansible
2 4 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.10%) Terraform
3 1 (0.78%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 98 (75.97%) Juniper
2 35 (27.13%) Cisco
3 16 (12.40%) Palo Alto
4 14 (10.85%) SolarWinds
5 13 (10.08%) Citrix
6 5 (3.88%) F5
7 4 (3.10%) Google
7 4 (3.10%) Oracle
8 3 (2.33%) Okta
9 2 (1.55%) Forcepoint
9 2 (1.55%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.55%) VMware
10 1 (0.78%) ADVA
10 1 (0.78%) Alcatel-Lucent
10 1 (0.78%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (0.78%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.78%) Red Hat