The first table below looks at the demand for Wireshark skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wireshark over the 3 months to 24 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 South West 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireshark
Rank 107 105 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 1 31 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.050% 0.958% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.339% 5.860% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
Average daily rate £350 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
295 529 371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.63% 16.35% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 270 151
Average daily rate £350 £400 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +15.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £265 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 38 54
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% -22.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.93 £20.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.10 £42.50 £41.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Wireshark Daily Rate Trend

Wireshark
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Bristol - 1 £350 -
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
1 3 (75.00%) Terminal Services
1 3 (75.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (75.00%) Netcool
1 3 (75.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) Compuware
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) SNMP
1 3 (75.00%) HP
1 3 (75.00%) OPNET
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
1 3 (75.00%) Statistics
1 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (75.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) OpenView
3 1 (25.00%) ISUP
3 1 (25.00%) INAP
3 1 (25.00%) Ericsson
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) NetHawk
3 1 (25.00%) Agilent
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Wireshark
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) ISUP
3 1 (25.00%) INAP
3 1 (25.00%) MGW
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (75.00%) Netcool
1 3 (75.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 2 (50.00%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (50.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) Compuware
1 3 (75.00%) HP
1 3 (75.00%) OPNET
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
1 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (75.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Ericsson
2 1 (25.00%) NetHawk
2 1 (25.00%) Agilent
2 1 (25.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks