Wireshark Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Wireshark
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Wireshark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.25% - 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.83% - 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.94%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £368 - -
England median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 328 214 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.67% 15.91% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 88 121
10th Percentile £313 £188 £213
25th Percentile £384 £309 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +30.95% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £575
90th Percentile £608 £700 £588
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 65 52
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £16.30
25th Percentile £22.27 £16.30 £21.37
Median hourly rate £66.25 £45.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.22% -16.28% -17.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.54 -
England median hourly rate £38.72 £34.00 £57.43
% change year-on-year +13.88% -40.79% +1.66%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in the East of England

Wireshark
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Wireshark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Wireshark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Wireshark

Wireshark
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 Wireshark within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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
Suffolk - 6 £367 - 4
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) RTP
1 6 (100.00%) VoIP
2 3 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 3 (50.00%) RTCP
2 3 (50.00%) tcpdump
3 2 (33.33%) INAP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) JMeter
2 2 (33.33%) Locust
2 2 (33.33%) Robot Framework
2 2 (33.33%) TestCafe
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Voice Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (50.00%) Servlets
2 2 (33.33%) Taurus
2 2 (33.33%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Media Streaming
1 1 (16.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) CentOS
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Conversational AI
3 2 (33.33%) Conversational UI
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) MOS
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Metaswitch
2 2 (33.33%) Dialogic
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle