tcpdump Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

tcpdump
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring tcpdump skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £377 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 - -
75th Percentile £412 - -
90th Percentile £417 - -
North West median daily rate £398 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

tcpdump 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 125 63 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.14% 14.93% 18.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 45 66
10th Percentile £333 £202 £114
25th Percentile £364 £263 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +14.59% -14.14% +0.41%
75th Percentile £594 £525 £538
90th Percentile £643 £608 £582
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £18.68
25th Percentile £15.50 - £20.11
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.55%
75th Percentile £17.75 - £24.25
90th Percentile £18.50 - £25.30
North West median hourly rate £58.10 £24.59 £26.00
% change year-on-year +136.32% -5.44% +7.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

tcpdump job vacancy trend in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing tcpdump.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing tcpdump

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing tcpdump within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
Knutsford - 2 £398 -
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North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIA
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Suricata
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto