Wireshark Contract Job Trends in Central London

Wireshark
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Wireshark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 125 133
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.051% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.16% 0.47% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £323 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +228.13%
75th Percentile £644 - £538
90th Percentile £723 - -
London median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 232 211 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.33% 10.78% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 148 136
10th Percentile £288 £261 £276
25th Percentile £405 £379 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +2.10% -2.78%
75th Percentile £634 £667 £625
90th Percentile £712 £775 £755
London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £19.42 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £21.88 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% - -
75th Percentile £64.69 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £76.88 £61.54 -
London median hourly rate £37.00 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +47.12% -8.55% -22.03%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in Central London

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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Wireshark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Wireshark

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in Central London over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Wireshark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Wireshark

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
City of London -11 5 £475 - 3
Wireshark
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) RTP
1 2 (40.00%) tcpdump
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) HSRP
2 1 (20.00%) INAP
2 1 (20.00%) Intelligent Network
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) Multicast
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) RTCP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Fiddler
1 2 (40.00%) MSI
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Locust
2 1 (20.00%) Newman
2 1 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (20.00%) TestCafe
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) Servlets
2 1 (20.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (20.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) User Experience
1 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (20.00%) API Integration
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Metaswitch
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dialogic
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto