Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 562 612
Rank change year-on-year +154 +50 -5
Contract jobs citing IPsec 182 144 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.36% 2.01% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 65 151
10th Percentile £263 £313 £375
25th Percentile £325 £400 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £518 £588 £638
90th Percentile £554 £823 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £444 £459
% change year-on-year -15.49% -3.32% -15.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 8
10th Percentile £18.98 £38.22 £21.00
25th Percentile £19.69 £62.00 £24.94
Median hourly rate £21.25 £77.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.58% +112.33% +71.76%
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.25 £47.63
90th Percentile £23.33 £82.62 £49.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £63.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year -69.95% +42.09% +196.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,417 7,157 9,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.70% 12.42% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,232 4,624 6,284
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £694 £722 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 470 369
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.20
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -10.42%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England +155 174 £400 -18.12% 31
UK excluding London +107 127 £375 -15.49% 16
Midlands +85 83 £350 -17.65% 6
West Midlands +78 83 £350 -17.65% 6
London +89 49 £525 -25.00% 17
Work from Home +97 31 £515 +8.42% 10
South East +17 18 £400 -11.11% 2
North West +16 15 £513 +36.67% 3
North of England +11 15 £513 +17.14% 4
South West +10 6 £504 - 1
Scotland +41 4 £538 -2.27% 3
Wales +18 1 - -

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.20%) Apache Solr
1 4 (2.20%) MQSeries
1 4 (2.20%) nginx
2 2 (1.10%) IIS
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.64%) Azure
2 18 (9.89%) AWS
3 12 (6.59%) GCP
4 10 (5.49%) OCI
4 10 (5.49%) SaaS
5 6 (3.30%) PaaS
6 5 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (2.20%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.10%) IaaS
10 1 (0.55%) GitHub
10 1 (0.55%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 136 (74.73%) BGP
2 111 (60.99%) MPLS
3 102 (56.04%) WAN
4 101 (55.49%) VPN
5 83 (45.60%) Firewall
6 62 (34.07%) OSPF
7 52 (28.57%) Junos
8 41 (22.53%) LAN
9 37 (20.33%) Cisco ASA
10 31 (17.03%) Wireless
11 27 (14.84%) EIGRP
11 27 (14.84%) HSRP
12 26 (14.29%) DNS
13 23 (12.64%) Cisco Nexus
14 21 (11.54%) Cisco Firepower
14 21 (11.54%) SNMP
15 20 (10.99%) Network Security
16 19 (10.44%) Cisco ISE
17 18 (9.89%) Spanning Tree
17 18 (9.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.20%) Couchbase
1 4 (2.20%) MySQL
1 4 (2.20%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Git
2 3 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
General
1 28 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.24%) Finance
3 13 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.75%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.20%) Legal
7 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 92 (50.55%) Network Engineer
2 38 (20.88%) Network Support
3 32 (17.58%) WAN Engineer
4 28 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 28 (15.38%) 3rd Line Support
5 22 (12.09%) Senior
6 19 (10.44%) Senior Network Engineer
7 18 (9.89%) Support Engineer
8 15 (8.24%) 2nd Line Support
9 11 (6.04%) Architect
9 11 (6.04%) Network Support Engineer
10 10 (5.49%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 10 (5.49%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (5.49%) Network Specialist
11 9 (4.95%) Network Architect
12 6 (3.30%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 6 (3.30%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (3.30%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 5 (2.75%) Cisco Engineer
13 5 (2.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.59%) 802.1X
1 12 (6.59%) Jinja
2 8 (4.40%) LDAP
3 4 (2.20%) JSON
3 4 (2.20%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.20%) SAML
3 4 (2.20%) YAML
4 3 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.65%) Web Services
5 1 (0.55%) OAuth
5 1 (0.55%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.55%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 76 (41.76%) PKI
2 28 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.40%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.10%) Shadow IT
9 1 (0.55%) Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) IoT
9 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.69%) Linux
2 8 (4.40%) Unix
3 6 (3.30%) Windows
4 4 (2.20%) CentOS
5 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.37%) Load Balancing
2 28 (15.38%) Change Management
2 28 (15.38%) Network Design
3 24 (13.19%) Migration
4 22 (12.09%) ITIL
5 19 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (9.89%) DevOps
6 18 (9.89%) ITSM
7 15 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (7.69%) Network Management
9 12 (6.59%) Kalman Filter
10 11 (6.04%) Configuration Management
11 10 (5.49%) Agile
12 9 (4.95%) Incident Management
13 8 (4.40%) Roadmaps
13 8 (4.40%) Threat Management
14 7 (3.85%) Network Virtualisation
14 7 (3.85%) Problem Management
15 6 (3.30%) Computer Science
15 6 (3.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.99%) Python
2 15 (8.24%) Perl
3 12 (6.59%) Tcl
4 4 (2.20%) PHP
4 4 (2.20%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 54 (29.67%) Cisco Certification
3 53 (29.12%) SC Cleared
4 48 (26.37%) CCNP
5 34 (18.68%) CCNA
6 8 (4.40%) CCIE
7 5 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.75%) Degree
8 3 (1.65%) JNCIA
8 3 (1.65%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.10%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.10%) CCDP
9 2 (1.10%) CCIP
9 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.95%) SLA
2 6 (3.30%) QA
3 5 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.20%) GDPR
4 4 (2.20%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.20%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (10.44%) Firmware
2 9 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.20%) Samba
6 1 (0.55%) NFS
6 1 (0.55%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (10.44%) Ansible
2 13 (7.14%) FortiGate
2 13 (7.14%) Terraform
3 6 (3.30%) SolarWinds Orion
4 5 (2.75%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.10%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.55%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (59.34%) Juniper
2 77 (42.31%) Cisco
3 42 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 26 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 21 (11.54%) F5
6 16 (8.79%) Citrix
7 14 (7.69%) Microsoft
8 13 (7.14%) CheckPoint
9 12 (6.59%) Infoblox
10 11 (6.04%) Fortinet
11 9 (4.95%) Google
12 6 (3.30%) Extreme Networks
12 6 (3.30%) VMware
13 5 (2.75%) Oracle
13 5 (2.75%) Zscaler
14 4 (2.20%) Nokia
14 4 (2.20%) Red Hat
15 3 (1.65%) Dynatrace
15 3 (1.65%) New Relic
15 3 (1.65%) Okta