Wireshark Contracts with Work from Home Options

Wireshark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 321 405 564
Rank change year-on-year +84 +159 -131
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 20 63 51
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.28% 2.18% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 42 39
10th Percentile - £400 £400
25th Percentile £300 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £633 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.37% +26.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £588 £900 £563
90th Percentile £658 - £588
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +23.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,567 2,884 4,286
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.39% 11.50% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 1,907 2,899
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.10 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

Wireshark
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wireshark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Wireshark trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Wireshark.

Wireshark daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Wireshark daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Akamai
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) Network Security
2 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (35.00%) tcpdump
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 5 (25.00%) SNMP
4 5 (25.00%) WAN
5 4 (20.00%) BGP
5 4 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (20.00%) IPsec
5 4 (20.00%) MPLS
5 4 (20.00%) OSPF
5 4 (20.00%) VPN
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (15.00%) DHCP
6 3 (15.00%) DNS
6 3 (15.00%) HTTP
6 3 (15.00%) SSL
7 2 (10.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (20.00%) Tableau
2 2 (10.00%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Integration Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Technology Integration Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.00%) LAN Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) OLE
2 3 (15.00%) LDAP
3 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (20.00%) YARA
2 3 (15.00%) Clustering
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Shadow IT
4 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) SIEM
2 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (20.00%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (20.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 4 (20.00%) Use Case
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) High Availability
4 3 (15.00%) Investment Management
4 3 (15.00%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CCDP
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Snort
2 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kibana
2 2 (10.00%) Nagios
2 2 (10.00%) Nessus
2 2 (10.00%) Nmap
2 2 (10.00%) OpenView
3 1 (5.00%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Splunk
2 8 (40.00%) Cisco
3 6 (30.00%) Zscaler
4 4 (20.00%) Arista
4 4 (20.00%) Google
4 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (15.00%) Aruba
5 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (15.00%) Infoblox
5 3 (15.00%) Meraki
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (10.00%) AlienVault
6 2 (10.00%) Citrix
6 2 (10.00%) F5
7 1 (5.00%) LogRhythm