Wireshark Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Wireshark
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Wireshark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 65 72
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 20 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.91% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.66% 2.44% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £485 - £400
% change year-on-year - - +37.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

Wireshark falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 158 82 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.97% 11.47% 23.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 44 91
10th Percentile £225 £163 £220
25th Percentile £274 £205 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £378 £375
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% +0.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £580 £475
90th Percentile £575 £613 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £407 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -18.55% +25.00% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £44.35 £25.13 -
25th Percentile £44.88 £30.94 £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £41.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.94% -36.54% -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £51.65 £56.38 £69.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% +18.56%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wireshark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Wireshark job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Wireshark
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Wireshark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Akamai
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
1 8 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) BIG-IP
1 11 (55.00%) DNS
1 11 (55.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 11 (55.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 11 (55.00%) HTTP
1 11 (55.00%) SSL
1 11 (55.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (40.00%) Firewall
3 5 (25.00%) DMZ
4 1 (5.00%) BGP
4 1 (5.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.00%) OSPF
4 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.00%) VLAN
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
4 1 (5.00%) Wireless
4 1 (5.00%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Fiddler
General
1 11 (55.00%) Banking
1 11 (55.00%) Investment Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) IP Network Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Web Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Junior
4 3 (15.00%) Junior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 5 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Load Balancing
2 8 (40.00%) Application Security
2 8 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 8 (40.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (35.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 7 (35.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 6 (30.00%) OWASP
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Security Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Migration
5 5 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Network Management
7 1 (5.00%) Network Optimisation
7 1 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CCNP
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Firmware
1 7 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) CSIRT
2 6 (30.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (95.00%) F5
2 11 (55.00%) Blue Coat
2 11 (55.00%) McAfee
2 11 (55.00%) NetApp
3 8 (40.00%) Splunk
4 7 (35.00%) VMware
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco
6 1 (5.00%) Juniper
6 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds