The first table below looks at the demand for Wireshark skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wireshark over the 3 months to 23 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 England 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireshark
Rank 491 485 557
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +72
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 27 77 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.065% 0.144% 0.028%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.442% 0.917% 0.214%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 8
Average daily rate £350 £345 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £243 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £408 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £355 £338
% change year-on-year
-15.49% +5.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
Average hourly rate £25.00 £16.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+51.51% -58.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £16.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+72.72% -58.75%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6103 8393 7485
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.70% 15.72% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3062 3926 3458
Average daily rate £350 £366 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.29% +4.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 565 757
Average hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
Wireshark
UK

Wireshark
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Wireshark Daily Rate Trend

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Wireshark across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Wireshark Daily Rate Histogram

Wireshark
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Wireshark across the England region.

England Wireshark Hourly Rate Trend

Wireshark
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East +18 16 £285 +3.63%
London +18 8 £451 +32.50%
East of England +18 1 £265 +32.50%
South West 0 1 £350 -6.66%
East Midlands - 1 £350 -
Wireshark
UK

Wireshark
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 38 (51.35%) Telecoms
2 32 (43.24%) 2G
2 32 (43.24%) 3G
3 31 (41.89%) 3GPP
4 30 (40.54%) NetHawk
5 28 (37.84%) GSM
6 27 (36.49%) WCDMA
7 26 (35.14%) Radio Access Network
8 25 (33.78%) ISEB
9 22 (29.73%) Ericsson
9 22 (29.73%) Windows
10 21 (28.38%) RNC
10 21 (28.38%) Migration
11 19 (25.68%) Cisco
12 18 (24.32%) RANAP
13 17 (22.97%) Firewall
14 14 (18.92%) HP
15 13 (17.57%) Linux
16 11 (14.86%) TCP/IP
16 11 (14.86%) Juniper
17 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
17 10 (13.51%) UNIX
18 9 (12.16%) HTML
18 9 (12.16%) JavaScript
19 8 (10.81%) VPN
19 8 (10.81%) WAN
19 8 (10.81%) LAN
19 8 (10.81%) OpenView
19 8 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
19 8 (10.81%) Banking

Wireshark
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 Development
1 9 (12.16%) HTML
2 6 (8.108%) .NET
3 4 (5.405%) XML
4 3 (4.054%) Cocoa
4 3 (4.054%) ASP.NET
4 3 (4.054%) JSP
4 3 (4.054%) Cocoa Touch
5 2 (2.703%) soapUI
5 2 (2.703%) REST
5 2 (2.703%) SOAP
5 2 (2.703%) Web Services
5 2 (2.703%) EJB
5 2 (2.703%) XSL
5 2 (2.703%) JSON
6 1 (1.351%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.351%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.351%) FIXML
6 1 (1.351%) OLE DB
6 1 (1.351%) ODBC
6 1 (1.351%) WML
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.757%) CMS
1 5 (6.757%) Lync
2 4 (5.405%) Apache
3 3 (4.054%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.703%) Confluence
4 2 (2.703%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.351%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.351%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.351%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.405%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.054%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.703%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.351%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.054%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.351%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 32 (43.24%) 2G
1 32 (43.24%) 3G
2 31 (41.89%) 3GPP
3 28 (37.84%) GSM
4 27 (36.49%) WCDMA
5 26 (35.14%) Radio Access Network
6 21 (28.38%) RNC
7 18 (24.32%) RANAP
8 17 (22.97%) Firewall
9 11 (14.86%) TCP/IP
10 8 (10.81%) VPN
10 8 (10.81%) WAN
10 8 (10.81%) LAN
11 7 (9.459%) Wireless
11 7 (9.459%) SSL
11 7 (9.459%) VoIP
12 6 (8.108%) tcpdump
12 6 (8.108%) OmniPeek
12 6 (8.108%) IPv6
13 5 (6.757%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.351%) SAP BW
1 1 (1.351%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (1.351%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (1.351%) MySQL
1 1 (1.351%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.351%) Data Mining
1 1 (1.351%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 5 (6.757%) Selenium
2 4 (5.405%) JIRA
3 3 (4.054%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.703%) Redmine
4 2 (2.703%) Git (software)
4 2 (2.703%) LoadRunner
4 2 (2.703%) Maven
4 2 (2.703%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.703%) Subversion
5 1 (1.351%) TestDirector
5 1 (1.351%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.351%) WinDbg
General
1 38 (51.35%) Telecoms
2 8 (10.81%) Banking
3 6 (8.108%) Finance
4 5 (6.757%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.054%) Games
6 1 (1.351%) Law
6 1 (1.351%) Legal
6 1 (1.351%) Billing
Job Titles
1 34 (45.95%) Test Engineer
2 21 (28.38%) RAN Engineer
3 10 (13.51%) 3G Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Network Engineer
5 7 (9.459%) Analyst
6 5 (6.757%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.757%) Voice Engineer
6 5 (6.757%) Senior Voice Engineer
7 4 (5.405%) Senior Tester
7 4 (5.405%) Tester
8 2 (2.703%) Test Analyst
8 2 (2.703%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (2.703%) Network Support
8 2 (2.703%) Senior Support Engineer
8 2 (2.703%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (2.703%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.703%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (2.703%) Security Analyst
8 2 (2.703%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.703%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.459%) PKI
2 5 (6.757%) STB
3 3 (4.054%) Replication
3 3 (4.054%) Statistics
3 3 (4.054%) IPTV
3 3 (4.054%) Video on Demand
3 3 (4.054%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.703%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.703%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.703%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.351%) Handset
5 1 (1.351%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.351%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.351%) MPEG
5 1 (1.351%) Open Source
5 1 (1.351%) SWIFT
5 1 (1.351%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (29.73%) Windows
2 13 (17.57%) Linux
3 10 (13.51%) UNIX
4 7 (9.459%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (9.459%) Windows 7
5 5 (6.757%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (6.757%) Android
5 5 (6.757%) Apple iOS
6 3 (4.054%) Windows 2000
6 3 (4.054%) Windows XP
7 2 (2.703%) Mac OS X
7 2 (2.703%) Windows Vista
7 2 (2.703%) Windows 2000 Server
7 2 (2.703%) CentOS
7 2 (2.703%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.351%) HPUX
8 1 (1.351%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.38%) Migration
2 6 (8.108%) Network Management
2 6 (8.108%) Test Scripting
3 4 (5.405%) Manual Testing
3 4 (5.405%) Validation
4 3 (4.054%) Regression Testing
4 3 (4.054%) Scrum
4 3 (4.054%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (4.054%) TDD
4 3 (4.054%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (4.054%) Problem Management
4 3 (4.054%) Benchmarking
4 3 (4.054%) DRM
4 3 (4.054%) Project Management
4 3 (4.054%) BDD
4 3 (4.054%) Test Strategy
4 3 (4.054%) Functional Testing
4 3 (4.054%) User Stories
5 2 (2.703%) Automation Testing
5 2 (2.703%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.16%) JavaScript
2 6 (8.108%) Perl
3 5 (6.757%) Objective-C
3 5 (6.757%) Ruby
3 5 (6.757%) Java
3 5 (6.757%) Python
4 3 (4.054%) PHP
5 2 (2.703%) Bash shell
5 2 (2.703%) C
5 2 (2.703%) C#
5 2 (2.703%) C++
5 2 (2.703%) VB
6 1 (1.351%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.351%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.351%) SQL
6 1 (1.351%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (33.78%) ISEB
2 8 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (9.459%) Degree
3 7 (9.459%) CCNA
4 6 (8.108%) ISTQB
5 5 (6.757%) Security Cleared
6 4 (5.405%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.405%) MCSE
6 4 (5.405%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.405%) RHCE
7 2 (2.703%) MCP
7 2 (2.703%) CISSP
7 2 (2.703%) GIAC
7 2 (2.703%) RHCT
7 2 (2.703%) GCIA
7 2 (2.703%) GCIH
8 1 (1.351%) CCIE
8 1 (1.351%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.054%) QA
2 2 (2.703%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.703%) COBIT
2 2 (2.703%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.703%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (9.459%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.757%) Nmap
3 3 (4.054%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.054%) Terminal Services
4 2 (2.703%) Snort
5 1 (1.351%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.351%) Shibboleth
5 1 (1.351%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) OpenView
2 4 (5.405%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (4.054%) Tivoli
3 3 (4.054%) Netcool
3 3 (4.054%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 2 (2.703%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 2 (2.703%) Puppet
4 2 (2.703%) YUM
4 2 (2.703%) CiscoWorks
4 2 (2.703%) MIIS
5 1 (1.351%) Nessus
5 1 (1.351%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 30 (40.54%) NetHawk
2 22 (29.73%) Ericsson
3 19 (25.68%) Cisco
4 14 (18.92%) HP
5 11 (14.86%) Juniper
6 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
7 7 (9.459%) CheckPoint
8 6 (8.108%) Avaya
9 5 (6.757%) VMware
9 5 (6.757%) Agilent
9 5 (6.757%) IBM
9 5 (6.757%) Infovista
9 5 (6.757%) Verint
9 5 (6.757%) F5
10 4 (5.405%) Nokia Siemens Networks
10 4 (5.405%) SolarWinds
10 4 (5.405%) Oracle
10 4 (5.405%) Nortel
10 4 (5.405%) Red Hat
11 3 (4.054%) OPNET
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