Wireshark Contracts in the UK excluding London

Wireshark
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Wireshark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wireshark over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 393 477
Rank change year-on-year +46 +84 -74
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 49 54 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.47% 1.54% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 18
10th Percentile £313 £288 £307
25th Percentile £425 £369 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £550
90th Percentile £658 £525 £588
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +6.76% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.58 £73.82
UK median hourly rate - £70.25 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +6.76% +31.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Wireshark is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,328 3,498 4,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 14.91% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,201 2,615
10th Percentile £201 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 321 234
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.01
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Wireshark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the UK excluding London

Wireshark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in the UK excluding London

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the UK excluding London

Wireshark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Wireshark in the UK excluding London

Wireshark
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
South West +10 14 £488 +21.88% 4
South East +21 10 £300 -40.00% 3
North of England +25 9 £515 +58.46% 3
East of England +16 9 £550 +41.94% 1
Midlands +38 6 £550 +23.60%
Yorkshire +23 5 £515 +14.44% 1
West Midlands +23 4 £550 +23.60%
North West +7 4 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland +38 1 £310 -38.00% 8
Wireshark
UK

Wireshark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.12%) IIS
1 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) MQSeries
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (10.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) Azure
2 5 (10.20%) Akamai
2 5 (10.20%) AWS
2 5 (10.20%) Cloudflare
3 4 (8.16%) GCP
4 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (44.90%) Radio Access Network
2 18 (36.73%) 4G
2 18 (36.73%) LTE
2 18 (36.73%) Wireless
3 14 (28.57%) DNS
4 13 (26.53%) Firewall
5 12 (24.49%) 3GPP
6 10 (20.41%) 5G
7 9 (18.37%) LAN
7 9 (18.37%) TCP/IP
7 9 (18.37%) WAN
8 7 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (12.24%) 3G
9 6 (12.24%) Diameter Protocol
9 6 (12.24%) GGSN
9 6 (12.24%) RANAP
9 6 (12.24%) SGSN
9 6 (12.24%) VoLTE
10 5 (10.20%) DHCP
10 5 (10.20%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.04%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) JIRA
2 4 (8.16%) gcov
2 4 (8.16%) GDB
2 4 (8.16%) Git
2 4 (8.16%) Gradle
2 4 (8.16%) Subversion
3 3 (6.12%) Fiddler
4 1 (2.04%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 28 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.41%) Multimedia
4 6 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Retail
7 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Finance
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 5 (10.20%) Architect
2 5 (10.20%) Network Support
2 5 (10.20%) Network Support Engineer
2 5 (10.20%) Support Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) Administrator
3 4 (8.16%) C++ Developer
3 4 (8.16%) Developer
3 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 4 (8.16%) Security Architect
4 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
4 3 (6.12%) SharePoint Administrator
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) LAN Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) .NET
1 3 (6.12%) .NET Framework
1 3 (6.12%) SAML
2 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.04%) LDAP
2 1 (2.04%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.04%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Linux
2 6 (12.24%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Computer Science
2 12 (24.49%) High Availability
2 12 (24.49%) Network Design
2 12 (24.49%) Project Management
3 7 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 6 (12.24%) Network Architecture
4 6 (12.24%) Performance Improvement
4 6 (12.24%) Statistics
5 5 (10.20%) Change Management
5 5 (10.20%) Load Balancing
5 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.20%) RAD
5 5 (10.20%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (8.16%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (8.16%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (6.12%) DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) OWASP
7 3 (6.12%) SIEM
8 2 (4.08%) Customer Service
8 2 (4.08%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.16%) C
1 4 (8.16%) C++
1 4 (8.16%) Python
2 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) Degree
2 14 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (20.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (16.33%) CCNA
5 6 (12.24%) CCNP
6 4 (8.16%) CCIE
6 4 (8.16%) VCAP
7 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) GDPR
1 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Samba
2 1 (2.04%) Snort
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) OpenView
2 3 (6.12%) SCOM
2 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) Iperf
3 1 (2.04%) Kibana
3 1 (2.04%) Nagios
3 1 (2.04%) Nessus
3 1 (2.04%) Nmap
3 1 (2.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Actix
1 12 (24.49%) Ericsson
1 12 (24.49%) Huawei
1 12 (24.49%) Nokia
2 10 (20.41%) Cisco
2 10 (20.41%) SolarWinds
3 8 (16.33%) F5
4 6 (12.24%) Empirix
4 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.24%) NetScout
5 4 (8.16%) Klocwork
5 4 (8.16%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (8.16%) Perforce
6 3 (6.12%) CheckPoint
6 3 (6.12%) Splunk
7 2 (4.08%) Meraki
8 1 (2.04%) AlienVault
8 1 (2.04%) LogRhythm
8 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.04%) VMware