Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IPsec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IPsec over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 699 746 942
Rank change year-on-year +47 +196 -189
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 205 228 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.52% 1.45% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 130 106 237
10th Percentile £26,700 £35,813 £33,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £53,563 £58,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £49,625 £52,500
% change year-on-year -34.51% -5.48% -12.50%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,519 15,777 20,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.57% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,018 11,667
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPsec.

Salary trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +75 166 £47,500 -8.65% 24
UK excluding London -14 152 £32,500 -34.51% 15
Work from Home +130 103 £47,500 -9.52% 12
London +105 47 £50,000 -11.11% 11
Midlands +8 45 £27,400 -39.11% 7
West Midlands +37 36 £27,400 -39.11% 7
North of England +40 32 £35,000 -22.22% 2
South East -29 29 £53,000 +0.95% 1
North West +25 27 £35,000 -39.13% 2
Scotland -56 20 £32,500 -40.91% 3
South West -12 19 £30,000 -31.43% 1
East Midlands -23 9 £45,000 -
Yorkshire +77 8 £62,500 +19.05%
Wales +7 8 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +23 5 - -
East of England +20 3 £62,500 +4.17% 1
North East -10 3 £62,500 +66.67%

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 54 (26.34%) Apache
2 11 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.98%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 59 (28.78%) Azure
2 56 (27.32%) Amazon S3
3 19 (9.27%) AWS
4 17 (8.29%) Entra ID
5 16 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (5.37%) OneDrive
7 9 (4.39%) IaaS
8 6 (2.93%) GCP
9 5 (2.44%) AWS Direct Connect
9 5 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (2.44%) PaaS
10 2 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.98%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.98%) OpenDNS
11 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.49%) SaaS
11 1 (0.49%) Serverless
11 1 (0.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 164 (80.00%) VPN
2 146 (71.22%) Firewall
3 91 (44.39%) WAN
4 68 (33.17%) LAN
5 65 (31.71%) BGP
5 65 (31.71%) DNS
6 64 (31.22%) SNMP
7 57 (27.80%) Internet
8 55 (26.83%) DHCP
9 54 (26.34%) MPLS
9 54 (26.34%) OSPF
10 42 (20.49%) Wireless
11 40 (19.51%) VLAN
12 39 (19.02%) Wi-Fi
13 36 (17.56%) SSL
14 31 (15.12%) TCP/IP
15 21 (10.24%) IPv4
15 21 (10.24%) IPv6
15 21 (10.24%) Spanning Tree
16 18 (8.78%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (26.34%) Elasticsearch
1 54 (26.34%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.41%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.98%) Couchbase
3 2 (0.98%) MySQL
General
1 63 (30.73%) Finance
2 22 (10.73%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.41%) Legal
4 7 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (1.95%) Aviation
5 4 (1.95%) Avionics
6 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.98%) Billing
7 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.98%) Law
7 2 (0.98%) Welsh Language
8 1 (0.49%) Marketing
8 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (34.63%) Network Engineer
2 55 (26.83%) Consultant
3 54 (26.34%) NetApp Consultant
4 17 (8.29%) Senior
5 15 (7.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 15 (7.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 14 (6.83%) WAN Engineer
7 13 (6.34%) Network Support
8 12 (5.85%) 3rd Line Support
9 11 (5.37%) Architect
10 10 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.88%) Support Engineer
10 10 (4.88%) Technical Specialist
11 8 (3.90%) Network Technician
12 7 (3.41%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) Systems Architect
13 6 (2.93%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
13 6 (2.93%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 6 (2.93%) Infrastructure Team Leader
13 6 (2.93%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (27.32%) RabbitMQ
2 54 (26.34%) YAML
3 23 (11.22%) 802.1X
4 7 (3.41%) HTML
4 7 (3.41%) XML
5 2 (0.98%) LAMP
5 2 (0.98%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.49%) OAuth
6 1 (0.49%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.49%) OpenID
6 1 (0.49%) SAML
6 1 (0.49%) Web Services
6 1 (0.49%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (45.85%) Data Centre
2 32 (15.61%) PKI
3 10 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.39%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.95%) Replication
7 4 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 73 (35.61%) Windows
2 72 (35.12%) Linux
3 54 (26.34%) Data ONTAP
4 19 (9.27%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.90%) Unix
6 6 (2.93%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.44%) Android
7 5 (2.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (29.76%) Project Management
3 56 (27.32%) Storage Management
4 55 (26.83%) Actionable Insight
5 54 (26.34%) Infrastructure Management
5 54 (26.34%) Project Planning
5 54 (26.34%) Release Management
6 24 (11.71%) Mentoring
7 18 (8.78%) Load Balancing
8 17 (8.29%) Customer Service
8 17 (8.29%) ITIL
8 17 (8.29%) Roadmaps
9 16 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (6.83%) Information Security
11 12 (5.85%) Capacity Planning
11 12 (5.85%) Computer Science
11 12 (5.85%) Network Management
11 12 (5.85%) Network Monitoring
11 12 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (5.37%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.68%) Python
2 14 (6.83%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.95%) SQL
4 2 (0.98%) PHP
Qualifications
1 59 (28.78%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (23.90%) Security Cleared
3 39 (19.02%) SC Cleared
4 33 (16.10%) CCNA
5 26 (12.68%) CCNP
6 13 (6.34%) Degree
7 8 (3.90%) A+ Certification
8 6 (2.93%) CCIE
9 5 (2.44%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.44%) GIAC
9 5 (2.44%) JNCIE
9 5 (2.44%) MCSA
9 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.95%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.46%) CCDA
11 3 (1.46%) JNCIA
12 2 (0.98%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.93%) SLA
3 5 (2.44%) NCSC
4 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (30.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 58 (28.29%) Docker
3 24 (11.71%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.98%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.98%) pfSense
6 2 (0.98%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.49%) RACF
Systems Management
1 62 (30.24%) Ansible
2 58 (28.29%) Kubernetes
3 54 (26.34%) Prometheus
3 54 (26.34%) vCenter Server
4 10 (4.88%) Puppet
5 8 (3.90%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.44%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (1.46%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.98%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.98%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.98%) Grafana
8 2 (0.98%) Nessus
8 2 (0.98%) Terraform
8 2 (0.98%) WhatsUp Gold
8 2 (0.98%) WSUS
9 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (34.63%) Palo Alto
2 65 (31.71%) VMware
3 62 (30.24%) Juniper
4 57 (27.80%) Cisco
5 54 (26.34%) NetApp
5 54 (26.34%) Red Hat
5 54 (26.34%) SolidFire
6 23 (11.22%) Fortinet
7 20 (9.76%) Microsoft
8 15 (7.32%) F5
9 14 (6.83%) SolarWinds
10 11 (5.37%) Meraki
11 9 (4.39%) Google
12 8 (3.90%) Arista
12 8 (3.90%) Tufin
13 6 (2.93%) Dell
13 6 (2.93%) HP
13 6 (2.93%) Veeam
14 5 (2.44%) CheckPoint
15 3 (1.46%) Avaya