Wireshark Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Wireshark
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Wireshark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.57% - 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.31% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £543 - -
North West median daily rate £447 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 121 77 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.14% 15.81% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 38 77
10th Percentile £315 £291 £140
25th Percentile £365 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £563 £606 £586
90th Percentile £688 £750 £613
North West median daily rate £458 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.06 - -
90th Percentile £67.25 - -
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
% change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Wireshark
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Wireshark

Wireshark
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 Wireshark within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 November 2025. 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
Chester - 4 £475 - 1
Wireshark
North West

Wireshark
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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Junior
1 2 (50.00%) Junior Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Malware Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (50.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) McAfee
1 2 (50.00%) VMware