IPsec Contracts in the West Midlands

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 40 108 160
Rank change year-on-year +68 +52 -35
Contract jobs citing IPsec 78 21 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.82% 0.95% 0.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.08% 5.60% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 4 9
10th Percentile £263 £339 £405
25th Percentile £313 £378 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -14.14% +46.67%
75th Percentile £388 £488 £700
90th Percentile - £510 £720
England median daily rate £375 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £21.25 £63.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year -66.39% +42.09% +157.97%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 370 375 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.12% 16.95% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 223 279
10th Percentile £200 £253 £163
25th Percentile £300 £323 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £451 £413
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +9.21% -0.60%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £545
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 11
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.63 £13.63
Median hourly rate £19.95 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.98% +28.06% +16.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £37.58 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for IPsec in the West Midlands

IPsec
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPsec in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPsec in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPsec in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for IPsec in the West Midlands

IPsec
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Solihull +6 48 £375 - 5
Birmingham +27 29 £350 -9.68% 3
IPsec
England

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (1.28%) AWS
1 1 (1.28%) Azure
1 1 (1.28%) IaaS
1 1 (1.28%) PaaS
1 1 (1.28%) SaaS
1 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 76 (97.44%) MPLS
2 65 (83.33%) BGP
2 65 (83.33%) WAN
3 47 (60.26%) Junos
4 42 (53.85%) VPN
5 6 (7.69%) LAN
6 5 (6.41%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (2.56%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.28%) CATAPAN
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.28%) Firewall
8 1 (1.28%) HSRP
8 1 (1.28%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.28%) OSPF
8 1 (1.28%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (1.28%) SSL
8 1 (1.28%) VLAN
General
1 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 5 (6.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (39.74%) Network Support
2 29 (37.18%) Network Engineer
3 26 (33.33%) WAN Engineer
4 24 (30.77%) 3rd Line Support
5 23 (29.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 12 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
7 10 (12.82%) Support Engineer
8 8 (10.26%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 7 (8.97%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (7.69%) Architect
11 5 (6.41%) Network Architect
11 5 (6.41%) Network Support Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) Lead
12 3 (3.85%) Project Engineer
13 2 (2.56%) Lead Architect
14 1 (1.28%) Cisco Architect
14 1 (1.28%) Cisco Network Architect
14 1 (1.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.28%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (65.38%) PKI
2 5 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (52.56%) Load Balancing
2 22 (28.21%) Network Design
3 9 (11.54%) Incident Management
4 4 (5.13%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (3.85%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (1.28%) Agile
6 1 (1.28%) ArchiMate
6 1 (1.28%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (1.28%) BPEL
6 1 (1.28%) CI/CD
6 1 (1.28%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (1.28%) Data Architecture
6 1 (1.28%) Design Patterns
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (1.28%) Project Delivery
6 1 (1.28%) Roadmaps
6 1 (1.28%) SOA
6 1 (1.28%) Software Architecture
6 1 (1.28%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (1.28%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (91.03%) Security Cleared
2 28 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.41%) CCNP
3 5 (6.41%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.85%) CCNA
4 3 (3.85%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) SLA
Vendors
1 77 (98.72%) Juniper
2 6 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (1.28%) F5
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft