Wireshark Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Wireshark
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 135 124 126
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +34
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.056% 0.049%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.58% 0.56% 0.52%
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 - - -54.35%
75th Percentile £644 - £538
90th Percentile £723 - -
Central London median daily rate £475 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +228.13%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 194 179 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.54% 10.10% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 126 112
10th Percentile £294 £263 £350
25th Percentile £400 £381 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £526
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.33% -3.53%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £715 £775 £762
Central London median daily rate £515 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £19.39 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £19.46 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% - -
75th Percentile £39.50 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £54.80 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
% change year-on-year +2.02% - -

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Wireshark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Wireshark

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Wireshark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Wireshark

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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