Network Packet Capture Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Network Packet Capture
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Network Packet Capture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 84 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Network Packet Capture 15 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.94% 0.088% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% - -
England median daily rate £617 £650 -
% change year-on-year -5.11% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £48.94 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.19 - -
90th Percentile £84.88 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Network Packet Capture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,340 956 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.38% 84.01% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 411 795
10th Percentile £187 £231 £247
25th Percentile £363 £338 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £585 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 184 359
10th Percentile £14.11 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.40 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.88 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.42% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Network Packet Capture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Packet Capture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Network Packet Capture job vacancy trend in the East of England

Network Packet Capture
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Packet Capture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Packet Capture

Network Packet Capture
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Packet Capture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Packet Capture

Network Packet Capture
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Packet Capture in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Packet Capture in the East of England

Network Packet Capture
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Packet Capture within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Hertfordshire -3 15 £680 +18.26% 4
Network Packet Capture
England

Network Packet Capture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) DNS
1 15 (100.00%) FTP
1 15 (100.00%) HTTP
1 15 (100.00%) Network Security
1 15 (100.00%) SMTP
1 15 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 13 (86.67%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (86.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Analyst
1 15 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Senior
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Cyberattack
2 13 (86.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (86.67%) CSOC
2 13 (86.67%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (86.67%) Management Information System
2 13 (86.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 15 (100.00%) Information Security
2 14 (93.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (93.33%) SIEM
3 13 (86.67%) AI
3 13 (86.67%) Analytics
3 13 (86.67%) Behavioural Analytics
3 13 (86.67%) Incident Response
3 13 (86.67%) Information Management
3 13 (86.67%) Machine Learning
3 13 (86.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 13 (86.67%) Runbook
3 13 (86.67%) Security Operations
3 13 (86.67%) SOAR
3 13 (86.67%) Threat Detection
4 12 (80.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) PowerShell
1 13 (86.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) DV Cleared