IPsec Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 528 621
Rank change year-on-year +137 +93 -11
Contract jobs citing IPsec 189 155 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.48% 2.18% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 72 154
10th Percentile £263 £313 £375
25th Percentile £325 £400 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £520 £583 £625
90th Percentile £555 £812 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £450 £468
% change year-on-year -16.67% -3.85% -18.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 7
10th Percentile £18.98 £18.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £19.69 £62.00 £23.88
Median hourly rate £21.25 £76.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.13% +71.34% +97.78%
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.25 £48.00
90th Percentile £23.33 £82.22 £49.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year -69.66% +40.71% +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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +127 177 £400 -15.97% 39
UK excluding London +71 129 £375 -16.67% 27
Midlands +80 84 £350 -17.65% 5
West Midlands +72 84 £350 -17.65% 4
London +100 47 £525 -25.00% 15
Work from Home +101 40 £515 +3.00% 32
South East +2 19 £400 -8.57% 7
North of England +8 16 £513 +13.89% 7
North West +7 16 £513 +15.49% 6
South West +5 5 £520 -
Scotland +37 4 £538 -2.27% 6
Wales +16 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 (2.12%) Apache Solr
1 4 (2.12%) nginx
2 2 (1.06%) IIS
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.06%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.23%) Azure
2 20 (10.58%) AWS
3 14 (7.41%) GCP
4 10 (5.29%) OCI
4 10 (5.29%) SaaS
5 6 (3.17%) PaaS
6 5 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (2.12%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.06%) IaaS
10 1 (0.53%) GitHub
10 1 (0.53%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 145 (76.72%) BGP
2 111 (58.73%) MPLS
3 105 (55.56%) WAN
4 101 (53.44%) VPN
5 90 (47.62%) Firewall
6 71 (37.57%) OSPF
7 55 (29.10%) Junos
8 46 (24.34%) Cisco ASA
9 41 (21.69%) LAN
10 40 (21.16%) EIGRP
11 37 (19.58%) HSRP
12 33 (17.46%) Cisco Firepower
13 29 (15.34%) Cisco ISE
13 29 (15.34%) Wireless
14 27 (14.29%) DNS
15 24 (12.70%) NetScaler
16 21 (11.11%) Network Security
16 21 (11.11%) SNMP
17 20 (10.58%) SD-WAN
18 19 (10.05%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.12%) Couchbase
1 4 (2.12%) MySQL
1 4 (2.12%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.06%) JIRA
2 1 (0.53%) Git
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
General
1 28 (14.81%) Public Sector
2 14 (7.41%) Finance
3 12 (6.35%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.12%) Legal
5 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.53%) Advertising
7 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (50.79%) Network Engineer
2 38 (20.11%) Network Support
3 33 (17.46%) WAN Engineer
4 31 (16.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 29 (15.34%) 3rd Line Support
6 21 (11.11%) Senior
7 18 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
7 18 (9.52%) Support Engineer
8 14 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support
9 12 (6.35%) Architect
10 11 (5.82%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 11 (5.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 11 (5.82%) Network Support Engineer
11 10 (5.29%) Network Architect
11 10 (5.29%) Network Specialist
12 9 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 5 (2.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 5 (2.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 4 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
14 4 (2.12%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.35%) Jinja
2 11 (5.82%) 802.1X
3 6 (3.17%) LDAP
4 4 (2.12%) JSON
4 4 (2.12%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (2.12%) SAML
4 4 (2.12%) YAML
5 3 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.59%) Web Services
6 1 (0.53%) OAuth
6 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.53%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 77 (40.74%) PKI
2 26 (13.76%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.06%) Shadow IT
9 1 (0.53%) Clustering
9 1 (0.53%) IoT
9 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.76%) Linux
2 6 (3.17%) Windows
3 4 (2.12%) CentOS
4 3 (1.59%) Unix
5 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.53%) VMS
5 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.93%) Load Balancing
2 28 (14.81%) Change Management
2 28 (14.81%) Network Design
3 27 (14.29%) ITSM
3 27 (14.29%) Migration
4 23 (12.17%) Network Management
5 21 (11.11%) ITIL
6 18 (9.52%) DevOps
6 18 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (6.35%) Agile
9 11 (5.82%) Kalman Filter
10 9 (4.76%) Incident Management
11 8 (4.23%) Threat Management
12 7 (3.70%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (3.70%) Problem Management
13 6 (3.17%) Configuration Management
13 6 (3.17%) Mentoring
13 6 (3.17%) Risk Assessment
13 6 (3.17%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.99%) Python
2 12 (6.35%) Perl
2 12 (6.35%) Tcl
3 4 (2.12%) PHP
3 4 (2.12%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (60.32%) Security Cleared
2 60 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 55 (29.10%) Cisco Certification
4 49 (25.93%) CCNP
5 36 (19.05%) CCNA
6 9 (4.76%) CCIE
7 5 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.12%) Degree
9 3 (1.59%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.59%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.06%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.06%) CCDP
10 2 (1.06%) CCIP
10 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.76%) SLA
2 6 (3.17%) QA
3 5 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.12%) GDPR
4 4 (2.12%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.12%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (10.05%) Firmware
2 9 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.06%) Samba
6 1 (0.53%) NFS
6 1 (0.53%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (8.47%) Ansible
2 13 (6.88%) FortiGate
2 13 (6.88%) Terraform
3 6 (3.17%) SolarWinds Orion
4 5 (2.65%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.06%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.53%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (58.73%) Juniper
2 85 (44.97%) Cisco
3 55 (29.10%) Palo Alto
4 35 (18.52%) SolarWinds
5 26 (13.76%) Citrix
6 20 (10.58%) F5
7 14 (7.41%) Microsoft
8 13 (6.88%) CheckPoint
9 12 (6.35%) Fortinet
9 12 (6.35%) Infoblox
10 9 (4.76%) Google
11 7 (3.70%) Zscaler
12 6 (3.17%) Extreme Networks
13 5 (2.65%) Oracle
14 3 (1.59%) Aruba
14 3 (1.59%) Dynatrace
14 3 (1.59%) New Relic
14 3 (1.59%) Okta
14 3 (1.59%) VMware
15 2 (1.06%) SonicWALL