Wireshark Contract Job Trends in Chester

Wireshark
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester 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 20 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 3.54% - 1.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.12% - 5.88%
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 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 33 25 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 29.20% 37.31% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 4
10th Percentile £413 £400 £228
25th Percentile £431 £447 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +57.14%
75th Percentile £588 £644 £625
90th Percentile £598 £738 £648
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -9.00% -6.54% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in Chester

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Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Wireshark

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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