IPsec Contracts in England

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 503 613
Rank change year-on-year +137 +110 -71
Contract jobs citing IPsec 177 136 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.67% 2.27% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 61 119
10th Percentile £263 £288 £375
25th Percentile £325 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £515 £600 £625
90th Percentile £550 £830 £713
UK median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 5
10th Percentile £18.98 £18.50 £32.75
25th Percentile £19.69 £56.68 £41.75
Median hourly rate £21.25 £63.23 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.39% +42.09% +157.97%
75th Percentile £22.69 £80.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £23.33 £80.70 £49.96
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
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,829 5,995 8,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.08% 12.56% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,897 3,907 5,307
10th Percentile £213 £240 £226
25th Percentile £350 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £646 £618
90th Percentile £697 £735 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 407 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.96%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.01 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in England

IPsec
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in England

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands +83 84 £350 -17.65% 5
West Midlands +73 84 £350 -17.65% 4
London +106 47 £525 -25.00% 17
South East 0 19 £400 - 7
North of England +14 16 £513 +13.89% 7
North West +2 16 £513 +15.49% 6
South West +9 5 £520 -
IPsec
UK

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.26%) Apache Solr
1 4 (2.26%) nginx
2 2 (1.13%) IIS
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.13%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.56%) Azure
2 20 (11.30%) AWS
3 14 (7.91%) GCP
4 7 (3.95%) OCI
4 7 (3.95%) SaaS
5 5 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (2.26%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.69%) PaaS
8 2 (1.13%) IaaS
9 1 (0.56%) GitHub
9 1 (0.56%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 140 (79.10%) BGP
2 109 (61.58%) MPLS
3 103 (58.19%) WAN
4 93 (52.54%) VPN
5 81 (45.76%) Firewall
6 66 (37.29%) OSPF
7 55 (31.07%) Junos
8 42 (23.73%) Cisco ASA
9 40 (22.60%) LAN
10 35 (19.77%) EIGRP
11 33 (18.64%) HSRP
12 29 (16.38%) Cisco Firepower
12 29 (16.38%) Wireless
13 27 (15.25%) DNS
14 26 (14.69%) Cisco ISE
15 21 (11.86%) SNMP
16 20 (11.30%) NetScaler
17 19 (10.73%) Cisco Nexus
17 19 (10.73%) SD-WAN
18 18 (10.17%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.26%) Couchbase
1 4 (2.26%) MySQL
1 4 (2.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.13%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 23 (12.99%) Public Sector
2 14 (7.91%) Finance
3 12 (6.78%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.26%) Legal
5 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.56%) Advertising
7 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (50.85%) Network Engineer
2 38 (21.47%) Network Support
3 33 (18.64%) WAN Engineer
4 31 (17.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 29 (16.38%) 3rd Line Support
6 18 (10.17%) Senior
7 17 (9.60%) Senior Network Engineer
7 17 (9.60%) Support Engineer
8 14 (7.91%) 2nd Line Support
9 12 (6.78%) Architect
10 11 (6.21%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 11 (6.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 11 (6.21%) Network Support Engineer
11 10 (5.65%) Network Architect
11 10 (5.65%) Network Specialist
12 8 (4.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 5 (2.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 5 (2.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 4 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
14 4 (2.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.78%) Jinja
2 11 (6.21%) 802.1X
3 4 (2.26%) JSON
3 4 (2.26%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.26%) SAML
3 4 (2.26%) YAML
4 3 (1.69%) LDAP
4 3 (1.69%) Web Services
5 1 (0.56%) OAuth
5 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.56%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 77 (43.50%) PKI
2 26 (14.69%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.52%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.95%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.56%) Clustering
9 1 (0.56%) IoT
9 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.08%) Linux
2 6 (3.39%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) CentOS
4 3 (1.69%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.68%) Load Balancing
2 28 (15.82%) Network Design
3 25 (14.12%) Change Management
4 24 (13.56%) ITSM
4 24 (13.56%) Migration
5 21 (11.86%) ITIL
6 19 (10.73%) Network Management
7 18 (10.17%) DevOps
8 16 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (6.21%) Agile
11 9 (5.08%) Incident Management
12 8 (4.52%) Kalman Filter
12 8 (4.52%) Threat Management
13 7 (3.95%) Network Virtualisation
13 7 (3.95%) Problem Management
14 6 (3.39%) Configuration Management
14 6 (3.39%) Mentoring
14 6 (3.39%) Risk Assessment
14 6 (3.39%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.60%) Python
2 12 (6.78%) Perl
2 12 (6.78%) Tcl
3 4 (2.26%) PHP
3 4 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (62.71%) Security Cleared
2 58 (32.77%) SC Cleared
3 53 (29.94%) Cisco Certification
4 48 (27.12%) CCNP
5 34 (19.21%) CCNA
6 9 (5.08%) CCIE
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.26%) Degree
9 3 (1.69%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.69%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.13%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.13%) CCDP
10 2 (1.13%) CCIP
10 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.08%) SLA
2 6 (3.39%) QA
3 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.26%) GDPR
4 4 (2.26%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.26%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (10.73%) Firmware
2 6 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.13%) Samba
5 1 (0.56%) NFS
5 1 (0.56%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (9.04%) Ansible
2 13 (7.34%) Terraform
3 12 (6.78%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.39%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (2.82%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.13%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (62.71%) Juniper
2 79 (44.63%) Cisco
3 50 (28.25%) Palo Alto
4 31 (17.51%) SolarWinds
5 20 (11.30%) Citrix
5 20 (11.30%) F5
6 14 (7.91%) Microsoft
7 13 (7.34%) CheckPoint
8 12 (6.78%) Infoblox
9 11 (6.21%) Fortinet
10 9 (5.08%) Google
11 6 (3.39%) Extreme Networks
12 4 (2.26%) Zscaler
13 3 (1.69%) Aruba
13 3 (1.69%) Dynatrace
13 3 (1.69%) New Relic
13 3 (1.69%) VMware
14 2 (1.13%) Alcatel-Lucent
14 2 (1.13%) McAfee
14 2 (1.13%) Red Hat