The first table below looks at the demand for Wireshark skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wireshark over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireshark
Rank 199 - 243
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 2 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.032% - 0.030%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.238% - 0.304%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £563 - £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £355 £338
% change year-on-year
-15.49% +5.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £16.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+72.72% -58.75%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
841 1013 987
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.36% 13.02% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 689 644
Average daily rate £393 £413 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.84% +6.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 42 69
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +6.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.30 £17.75 £13.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Wireshark
London

Wireshark
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Wireshark across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London Wireshark Jobs Demand Trend

Wireshark
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Wireshark across the City of London region.

City of London Wireshark Daily Rate Trend

Wireshark
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Wireshark also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Wireshark.

1 7 (87.50%) HP
1 7 (87.50%) Banking
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) Juniper
3 5 (62.50%) OpenView
3 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) LAN
3 5 (62.50%) WAN
3 5 (62.50%) Wireless
3 5 (62.50%) OmniPeek
4 4 (50.00%) Network Management
4 4 (50.00%) Lync
4 4 (50.00%) Verint
4 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) Infovista
4 4 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) CMS
4 4 (50.00%) Avaya
4 4 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (50.00%) PKI
4 4 (50.00%) Ethernet
4 4 (50.00%) VoIP
4 4 (50.00%) WLAN
4 4 (50.00%) IPv6
4 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (37.50%) Nortel
5 3 (37.50%) PSTN

Wireshark
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Wireshark also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Wireshark. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) CMS
1 4 (50.00%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
1 1 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) Wireless
2 5 (62.50%) LAN
2 5 (62.50%) WAN
2 5 (62.50%) OmniPeek
3 4 (50.00%) Ethernet
3 4 (50.00%) VoIP
3 4 (50.00%) WLAN
3 4 (50.00%) IPv6
4 3 (37.50%) PSTN
5 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (25.00%) SAN
5 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (25.00%) tcpdump
6 1 (12.50%) Network Security
6 1 (12.50%) 802.11
6 1 (12.50%) OSPF
6 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
6 1 (12.50%) VPN
6 1 (12.50%) RIP
General
1 7 (87.50%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Voice Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Voice Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Network Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Forensic Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
2 2 (25.00%) CentOS
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Forensics
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) PHP
1 2 (25.00%) Ruby
1 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) RHCE
2 1 (12.50%) GIAC
2 1 (12.50%) GCIA
2 1 (12.50%) GCIH
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (12.50%) COBIT
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Snort
3 1 (12.50%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) OpenView
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) HP
2 6 (75.00%) Juniper
3 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) Infovista
4 4 (50.00%) Avaya
4 4 (50.00%) Verint
5 3 (37.50%) Mitel
5 3 (37.50%) Nortel
6 2 (25.00%) VMware
6 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (12.50%) F5