The first table below looks at the demand for Wireshark skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 377 384 429
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +45
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 8 22 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.037% 0.082% 0.026%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.280% 0.600% 0.236%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 5
Average daily rate £451 £340 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.50% -32.00%
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2861 3664 3392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.25% 13.68% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1759 2236 1957
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £237
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 135 145 211
Average hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.44% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hounslow - 3 £450 -
City of London - 2 £563 -
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 9 (45.00%) Linux
1 9 (45.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) Banking
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) HP
3 7 (35.00%) Juniper
3 7 (35.00%) Wireless
4 6 (30.00%) CheckPoint
4 6 (30.00%) OpenView
4 6 (30.00%) Cisco
4 6 (30.00%) WAN
4 6 (30.00%) Windows
4 6 (30.00%) LAN
4 6 (30.00%) OmniPeek
5 5 (25.00%) Network Management
5 5 (25.00%) Lync
5 5 (25.00%) Verint
5 5 (25.00%) ISTQB
5 5 (25.00%) PKI
5 5 (25.00%) UNIX
5 5 (25.00%) Python
5 5 (25.00%) Perl
5 5 (25.00%) Ethernet
5 5 (25.00%) VoIP
5 5 (25.00%) WLAN
5 5 (25.00%) IPv6
5 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 5 (25.00%) ISEB
5 5 (25.00%) Avaya
5 5 (25.00%) Telecoms

Wireshark
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 Development
1 4 (20.00%) HTML
2 3 (15.00%) Cocoa
2 3 (15.00%) Cocoa Touch
3 2 (10.00%) EJB
3 2 (10.00%) XSL
4 1 (5.000%) ODBC
4 1 (5.000%) WSDL
4 1 (5.000%) FIXML
4 1 (5.000%) OLE DB
4 1 (5.000%) XML
4 1 (5.000%) .NET
4 1 (5.000%) J2EE
4 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
4 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) CMS
1 5 (25.00%) Lync
2 3 (15.00%) Apache
2 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (10.00%) Confluence
4 1 (5.000%) IIS
4 1 (5.000%) Alfresco
4 1 (5.000%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (15.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (5.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Firewall
2 7 (35.00%) Wireless
3 6 (30.00%) OmniPeek
3 6 (30.00%) LAN
3 6 (30.00%) WAN
4 5 (25.00%) Ethernet
4 5 (25.00%) VoIP
4 5 (25.00%) WLAN
4 5 (25.00%) IPv6
5 3 (15.00%) SSL
5 3 (15.00%) PSTN
5 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (10.00%) VPN
6 2 (10.00%) RIP
6 2 (10.00%) LDAP
6 2 (10.00%) 802.11
6 2 (10.00%) OSPF
6 2 (10.00%) SAN
6 2 (10.00%) tcpdump
6 2 (10.00%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) MySQL
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.000%) MS Access
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Selenium
2 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.00%) Redmine
3 2 (10.00%) Subversion
3 2 (10.00%) Maven
3 2 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (10.00%) Git (software)
4 1 (5.000%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.000%) WinDbg
General
1 8 (40.00%) Banking
2 5 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Games
4 1 (5.000%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Voice Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Senior Voice Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Tester
2 3 (15.00%) Senior Tester
3 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Security Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Forensic Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Agile Tester
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) STB
1 5 (25.00%) PKI
2 3 (15.00%) IPTV
2 3 (15.00%) Video on Demand
2 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.00%) Digital Media
4 1 (5.000%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (5.000%) SWIFT
4 1 (5.000%) MPEG
4 1 (5.000%) Blackberry
4 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Windows
3 5 (25.00%) UNIX
4 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (15.00%) Android
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (10.00%) CentOS
5 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (10.00%) Mac OS X
6 1 (5.000%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Migration
1 5 (25.00%) Network Management
2 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (15.00%) BDD
3 3 (15.00%) Scrum
3 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (15.00%) DRM
3 3 (15.00%) Project Management
3 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (15.00%) TDD
3 3 (15.00%) User Stories
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Information Security
4 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.00%) Digital Forensics
5 1 (5.000%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Perl
1 5 (25.00%) Python
1 5 (25.00%) Ruby
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Objective-C
4 2 (10.00%) Bash shell
4 2 (10.00%) C
4 2 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) PHP
5 1 (5.000%) SQL
5 1 (5.000%) VBScript
5 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) ISEB
1 5 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (20.00%) RHCE
3 2 (10.00%) GIAC
3 2 (10.00%) GCIA
3 2 (10.00%) GCIH
3 2 (10.00%) RHCT
3 2 (10.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (10.00%) MCSE
4 1 (5.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (10.00%) COBIT
1 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.000%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Nmap
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.000%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) OpenView
2 2 (10.00%) YUM
2 2 (10.00%) Puppet
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (40.00%) HP
2 7 (35.00%) Juniper
3 6 (30.00%) Cisco
3 6 (30.00%) CheckPoint
4 5 (25.00%) Avaya
4 5 (25.00%) Infovista
4 5 (25.00%) Verint
5 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (15.00%) Nortel
6 3 (15.00%) Mitel
7 2 (10.00%) VMware
8 1 (5.000%) Alias
8 1 (5.000%) Oracle
8 1 (5.000%) Remedy
8 1 (5.000%) IBM
8 1 (5.000%) Plumtree
8 1 (5.000%) BMC
8 1 (5.000%) Lotus
8 1 (5.000%) Agilent