Wireshark Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Wireshark
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Wireshark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 16 36
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 1 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.11% 6.86% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.33% 24.14% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% -2.56% -
75th Percentile - £488 £494
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £450 £450 £575
% change year-on-year - -21.74% +15.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12 29 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 13.33% 28.43% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 11
10th Percentile - £223 £170
25th Percentile £146 £243 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% -5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £540 £488 £638
90th Percentile - £688 -
South West median daily rate £533 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +6.50% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 30
10th Percentile - - £53.29
25th Percentile - - £56.49
Median hourly rate - - £57.24
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.03%
75th Percentile - - £65.98
90th Percentile - - £69.72
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £67.26 £56.49
% change year-on-year -25.66% +19.07% -13.09%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in Dorset

Wireshark
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Bournemouth - 1 £300 -
Wireshark
South West

Wireshark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5