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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 684 723 951
Rank change year-on-year +39 +228 -190
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 213 231 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.58% 1.48% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 137 105 227
10th Percentile £26,700 £35,375 £34,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £44,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £66,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £49,625 £53,500
% change year-on-year -29.47% -7.24% -10.83%

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 13,460 15,589 21,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 15.83% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,379 7,833 11,758
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

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 23 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 23 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 +75 174 £47,500 -9.52% 39
UK excluding London -5 156 £35,000 -29.47% 25
Work from Home +128 107 £47,500 -13.64% 26
London +120 50 £50,000 -13.04% 16
Midlands +9 47 £27,400 -39.11% 5
West Midlands +35 37 £27,400 -39.11% 5
North of England +28 32 £35,000 -22.22% 7
South East -21 31 £53,000 +0.95% 8
North West +12 27 £35,000 -39.13% 6
Scotland -47 20 £32,500 - 5
South West -7 19 £30,000 -44.83%
East Midlands -15 10 £45,000 -
Yorkshire +70 8 £62,500 +19.05% 1
Wales +11 7 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +23 5 - -
East of England +9 4 £62,500 +4.17%
North East -11 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 (25.35%) Apache
2 11 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.94%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.94%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.47%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (28.17%) Azure
2 56 (26.29%) Amazon S3
3 21 (9.86%) AWS
4 17 (7.98%) Entra ID
5 16 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (5.16%) OneDrive
7 8 (3.76%) IaaS
8 7 (3.29%) GCP
9 5 (2.35%) AWS Direct Connect
9 5 (2.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.88%) PaaS
11 2 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.94%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.94%) OpenDNS
11 2 (0.94%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 170 (79.81%) VPN
2 155 (72.77%) Firewall
3 94 (44.13%) WAN
4 71 (33.33%) BGP
5 70 (32.86%) LAN
6 65 (30.52%) DNS
7 64 (30.05%) SNMP
8 61 (28.64%) OSPF
9 59 (27.70%) MPLS
10 57 (26.76%) DHCP
10 57 (26.76%) Internet
11 44 (20.66%) Wireless
12 43 (20.19%) VLAN
13 39 (18.31%) Wi-Fi
14 35 (16.43%) SSL
15 31 (14.55%) TCP/IP
16 21 (9.86%) EIGRP
16 21 (9.86%) IPv4
16 21 (9.86%) IPv6
16 21 (9.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (25.35%) Elasticsearch
1 54 (25.35%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.94%) Couchbase
3 2 (0.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 66 (30.99%) Finance
2 22 (10.33%) Social Skills
3 17 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.76%) Legal
5 7 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.35%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.88%) Aviation
7 4 (1.88%) Avionics
8 3 (1.41%) Billing
8 3 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Law
9 2 (0.94%) Retail
9 2 (0.94%) Welsh Language
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (35.68%) Network Engineer
2 56 (26.29%) Consultant
3 54 (25.35%) NetApp Consultant
4 17 (7.98%) Senior
5 15 (7.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 15 (7.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 14 (6.57%) WAN Engineer
7 13 (6.10%) Network Support
8 12 (5.63%) 3rd Line Support
9 10 (4.69%) Architect
9 10 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.69%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.69%) Technical Specialist
10 8 (3.76%) Network Technician
11 7 (3.29%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 7 (3.29%) Infrastructure Team Leader
11 7 (3.29%) Lead
11 7 (3.29%) Senior Network Engineer
11 7 (3.29%) Systems Architect
11 7 (3.29%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.29%) RabbitMQ
2 54 (25.35%) YAML
3 23 (10.80%) 802.1X
4 7 (3.29%) HTML
4 7 (3.29%) XML
5 2 (0.94%) LAMP
5 2 (0.94%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.47%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.47%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 96 (45.07%) Data Centre
2 32 (15.02%) PKI
3 10 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.23%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.35%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.35%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.88%) Replication
7 4 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 76 (35.68%) Linux
2 73 (34.27%) Windows
3 54 (25.35%) Data ONTAP
4 19 (8.92%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.76%) Unix
6 6 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.35%) Android
7 5 (2.35%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.94%) VMS
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (28.64%) Project Management
3 56 (26.29%) Storage Management
4 54 (25.35%) Actionable Insight
4 54 (25.35%) Infrastructure Management
4 54 (25.35%) Project Planning
4 54 (25.35%) Release Management
5 25 (11.74%) Mentoring
6 20 (9.39%) Load Balancing
7 18 (8.45%) ITIL
8 17 (7.98%) Customer Service
8 17 (7.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (7.98%) Roadmaps
9 15 (7.04%) Network Management
10 14 (6.57%) Information Security
11 13 (6.10%) Network Monitoring
12 12 (5.63%) Capacity Planning
12 12 (5.63%) Computer Science
12 12 (5.63%) Network Design
12 12 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.39%) Python
2 14 (6.57%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.41%) SQL
4 2 (0.94%) PHP
5 1 (0.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (28.64%) Cisco Certification
2 48 (22.54%) Security Cleared
3 38 (17.84%) SC Cleared
4 35 (16.43%) CCNA
5 28 (13.15%) CCNP
6 13 (6.10%) Degree
7 8 (3.76%) A+ Certification
8 6 (2.82%) CCIE
9 5 (2.35%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (2.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.35%) GIAC
9 5 (2.35%) JNCIE
9 5 (2.35%) MCSA
9 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.88%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.41%) CCDA
11 3 (1.41%) JNCIA
12 2 (0.94%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.29%) SLA
3 5 (2.35%) NCSC
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (29.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 58 (27.23%) Docker
3 24 (11.27%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.23%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.94%) pfSense
6 2 (0.94%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (29.58%) Ansible
2 58 (27.23%) Kubernetes
3 54 (25.35%) Prometheus
3 54 (25.35%) vCenter Server
4 10 (4.69%) Puppet
5 8 (3.76%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.35%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (1.41%) Terraform
8 2 (0.94%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.94%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.94%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.94%) Grafana
8 2 (0.94%) Nessus
8 2 (0.94%) WhatsUp Gold
8 2 (0.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (35.21%) Palo Alto
2 65 (30.52%) VMware
3 63 (29.58%) Juniper
4 60 (28.17%) Cisco
5 54 (25.35%) NetApp
5 54 (25.35%) Red Hat
5 54 (25.35%) SolidFire
6 24 (11.27%) Fortinet
7 22 (10.33%) Microsoft
8 17 (7.98%) F5
9 16 (7.51%) SolarWinds
10 11 (5.16%) Meraki
11 9 (4.23%) Arista
11 9 (4.23%) Google
12 8 (3.76%) Tufin
13 7 (3.29%) Dell
14 6 (2.82%) HP
14 6 (2.82%) Veeam
15 5 (2.35%) CheckPoint
16 4 (1.88%) Citrix