The first table below looks at the demand for Wireshark skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Wireshark over the 3 months to 19 June 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireshark
Rank 306 314 315
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 17 9 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.142% 0.068% 0.133%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.796% 0.426% 1.090%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 17
Average salary £60,000 £45,000 £61,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -26.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,900 £30,000 £44,600
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £59,200 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +50.00%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2136 2115 1926
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 17.79% 16.06% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1900 1904 1762
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Wireshark
London

Wireshark
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Wireshark Jobs Demand Trend

Wireshark
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Wireshark across the City of London region.

City of London Wireshark Salary Trend

Wireshark
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Wireshark across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Wireshark Salary Histogram

Wireshark
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Wireshark.

1 25 (75.76%) Linux
2 24 (72.73%) HP
3 22 (66.67%) Finance
4 20 (60.61%) Firewall
4 20 (60.61%) VMware
4 20 (60.61%) TCP/IP
5 19 (57.58%) Juniper
5 19 (57.58%) Perl
5 19 (57.58%) tcpdump
6 18 (54.55%) PHP
6 18 (54.55%) Windows
6 18 (54.55%) Configuration Management
7 17 (51.52%) SAN
7 17 (51.52%) Bash shell
8 16 (48.48%) Puppet
8 16 (48.48%) iSCSI
8 16 (48.48%) Red Hat
8 16 (48.48%) Ruby
9 15 (45.45%) Cisco
9 15 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
9 15 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
9 15 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (39.39%) Problem Management
11 11 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (30.30%) DNS
13 9 (27.27%) UNIX
13 9 (27.27%) ITIL
14 8 (24.24%) CCNA
15 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
16 6 (18.18%) VPN

Wireshark
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Wireshark. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (6.061%) Middleware
2 1 (3.030%) Regular Expression
2 1 (3.030%) Java SE
2 1 (3.030%) Ajax
2 1 (3.030%) LAMP
2 1 (3.030%) CSS
2 1 (3.030%) Web Services
2 1 (3.030%) HTML
2 1 (3.030%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.091%) Apache
1 3 (9.091%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.061%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
1 2 (6.061%) MS Visio
1 2 (6.061%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (60.61%) Firewall
1 20 (60.61%) TCP/IP
2 19 (57.58%) tcpdump
3 17 (51.52%) SAN
4 16 (48.48%) iSCSI
5 10 (30.30%) DNS
6 6 (18.18%) VPN
6 6 (18.18%) Ethernet
7 5 (15.15%) Network Security
7 5 (15.15%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (15.15%) SNMP
7 5 (15.15%) OSPF
8 4 (12.12%) MPLS
8 4 (12.12%) Broadband
8 4 (12.12%) TELNET
8 4 (12.12%) VPLS
9 3 (9.091%) NetScaler
9 3 (9.091%) VoIP
9 3 (9.091%) DHCP
10 2 (6.061%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.030%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.030%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.061%) Subversion
2 1 (3.030%) Trac
2 1 (3.030%) Git (software)
General
1 22 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Banking
2 5 (15.15%) Telecoms
3 4 (12.12%) Investment Banking
4 3 (9.091%) Advertising
5 2 (6.061%) Law
6 1 (3.030%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Network Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) NOC Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) Network Support
4 3 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (9.091%) Administrator
5 2 (6.061%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Team Leader
5 2 (6.061%) Applications Support
5 2 (6.061%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) UNIX Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.061%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (6.061%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) UNIX Support
5 2 (6.061%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.061%) Equities
2 1 (3.030%) Digital Media
2 1 (3.030%) Open Source
2 1 (3.030%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 25 (75.76%) Linux
2 18 (54.55%) Windows
3 15 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (27.27%) UNIX
5 5 (15.15%) CentOS
6 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (12.12%) Solaris
7 1 (3.030%) Fedora
7 1 (3.030%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Configuration Management
2 13 (39.39%) Problem Management
3 9 (27.27%) ITIL
4 6 (18.18%) Change Control
5 4 (12.12%) Network Management
6 3 (9.091%) Load Testing
6 3 (9.091%) Knowledge Management
6 3 (9.091%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (6.061%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (3.030%) Load Balancing
8 1 (3.030%) Service Delivery
8 1 (3.030%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (3.030%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Perl
2 18 (54.55%) PHP
3 17 (51.52%) Bash shell
4 16 (48.48%) Ruby
5 6 (18.18%) Java
6 4 (12.12%) Python
6 4 (12.12%) SQL
7 1 (3.030%) sed
7 1 (3.030%) PHP5
7 1 (3.030%) AWK
7 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.030%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (24.24%) CCNA
3 6 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (18.18%) JNCIA
4 5 (15.15%) Degree
4 5 (15.15%) RHCE
5 4 (12.12%) CCNP
6 3 (9.091%) CCSP
7 1 (3.030%) CCSE
7 1 (3.030%) HND
7 1 (3.030%) MCSE
7 1 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) SLA
2 3 (9.091%) QA
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (15.15%) vSphere
3 3 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (6.061%) Samba
5 1 (3.030%) Varnish
5 1 (3.030%) Xen
5 1 (3.030%) NFS
5 1 (3.030%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 16 (48.48%) Puppet
2 4 (12.12%) ServiceCenter
2 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 3 (9.091%) OpenView
4 2 (6.061%) CiscoWorks
4 2 (6.061%) Nagios
4 2 (6.061%) Cacti
4 2 (6.061%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 24 (72.73%) HP
2 20 (60.61%) VMware
3 19 (57.58%) Juniper
4 16 (48.48%) Red Hat
5 15 (45.45%) Cisco
6 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
7 5 (15.15%) CheckPoint
7 5 (15.15%) NetApp
8 4 (12.12%) Brocade
8 4 (12.12%) Foundry
8 4 (12.12%) Nimsoft
9 3 (9.091%) Riverbed
9 3 (9.091%) Citrix
9 3 (9.091%) Dell
10 2 (6.061%) IBM
10 2 (6.061%) TIBCO
10 2 (6.061%) Oracle
10 2 (6.061%) F5
10 2 (6.061%) SolarWinds
11 1 (3.030%) Mitel
City of London
Must have: - Security, F5, Juniper and Netscreen experience. High proficiency with checkpoint firewall, juniper firewall and switches, BIG-IP and tcp/ip... Exposure to wireless and VoIP environments...
ITHR
Salary: £1600 - £1750 per week
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Firewall Engineer (network security infrastructure) sought by leading investment bank based in the city of London.Essential:-Extensive experience in the support and implementation of network security infrastructure.-...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
City, London
Technical Skills *Very strong Fedora/RedHat/CentOS knowledge... *Solid experience configuring, monitoring, tuning and maintaining Apache, Java (standard edition), Tomcat, Subversion (or similar version control system), SQL databases (...
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Market Leading Package and bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Successful applicants will; - Have experience of DTT (DVB) and IPTV testing projects - Have experience in Set-Top Box testing - Have experience in technical functional testing of devices such...
CPH Consulting
Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum plus bonus and benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013