IPsec Contracts with Work from Home Options

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring IPsec skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IPsec over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 404 528
Rank change year-on-year +99 +124 -65
Contract jobs citing IPsec 36 53 95
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.35% 1.89% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 69
10th Percentile £418 £344 £350
25th Percentile £463 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -13.79%
75th Percentile £552 £550 £600
90th Percentile £590 £741 £715
UK median daily rate £400 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile £18.98 £18.50 £22.15
25th Percentile £19.69 £51.37 £23.88
Median hourly rate £21.25 £78.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.93% +175.44% -46.23%
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.25 £39.50
90th Percentile £23.33 £81.00 £45.05
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £76.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -72.13% +71.34% +97.78%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,531 2,803 4,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,872 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 99 105
10th Percentile £12.53 £19.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.07 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

IPsec
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IPsec trend for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec.

IPsec daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IPsec over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

IPsec daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPsec.

IPsec hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IPsec
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 4 (11.11%) Apache Solr
1 4 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) GCP
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (83.33%) Firewall
2 24 (66.67%) BGP
2 24 (66.67%) OSPF
3 19 (52.78%) EIGRP
4 17 (47.22%) Cisco ASA
4 17 (47.22%) VPN
5 14 (38.89%) Cisco Firepower
5 14 (38.89%) HSRP
5 14 (38.89%) NetScaler
6 13 (36.11%) Cisco ISE
7 11 (30.56%) Network Security
8 9 (25.00%) DNS
9 8 (22.22%) SNMP
9 8 (22.22%) TCP/IP
9 8 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (19.44%) LAN
10 7 (19.44%) WAN
11 6 (16.67%) MPLS
11 6 (16.67%) SD-WAN
11 6 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Couchbase
1 4 (11.11%) MySQL
1 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Legal
4 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (72.22%) Network Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Implementation Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Citrix Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Citrix Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Field Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) IT Director
7 1 (2.78%) Network Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Network Specialist
7 1 (2.78%) Network Support
7 1 (2.78%) Network Support Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Programme Director
7 1 (2.78%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Jinja
2 4 (11.11%) JSON
2 4 (11.11%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (11.11%) YAML
3 2 (5.56%) LDAP
4 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Data Centre
1 5 (13.89%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) Shadow IT
4 1 (2.78%) IoT
4 1 (2.78%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) CentOS
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Network Management
2 13 (36.11%) ITSM
3 11 (30.56%) Change Management
4 10 (27.78%) DevOps
4 10 (27.78%) Migration
5 8 (22.22%) ITIL
6 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.89%) Agile
7 5 (13.89%) Information Security
8 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 4 (11.11%) Configuration Management
8 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
8 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (11.11%) Microservices
8 4 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (11.11%) SDLC
8 4 (11.11%) Software Delivery
9 3 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Perl
1 6 (16.67%) Python
1 6 (16.67%) Tcl
2 4 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (41.67%) Security Cleared
3 14 (38.89%) CCNP
3 14 (38.89%) SC Cleared
4 11 (30.56%) CCNA
5 2 (5.56%) BC Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.56%) CCDP
5 2 (5.56%) CCIP
6 1 (2.78%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (11.11%) GDPR
3 4 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 4 (11.11%) NIST
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Firmware
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Ansible
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 27 (75.00%) Cisco
2 20 (55.56%) Palo Alto
3 16 (44.44%) Citrix
4 15 (41.67%) SolarWinds
5 4 (11.11%) Google
6 3 (8.33%) F5
6 3 (8.33%) Juniper
7 2 (5.56%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 2 (5.56%) Zscaler
8 1 (2.78%) ADVA
8 1 (2.78%) Aruba
8 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.78%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.78%) Nokia