tcpdump Contract Job Trends in England

tcpdump
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring tcpdump skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 525 570
Rank change year-on-year +34 +45 +172
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 10 8 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.024% 0.071%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.20% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 11
10th Percentile £595 - £388
25th Percentile £618 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £722 £488 £600
90th Percentile £756 - £775
UK median daily rate £650 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +36.84% -5.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

tcpdump 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,293 3,936 5,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.86% 12.04% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,057 2,306 3,599
10th Percentile £230 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 218 280
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.47 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.84 £24.03
Median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.85% -10.60% +36.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing tcpdump as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for tcpdump in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing tcpdump.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing tcpdump

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing tcpdump in England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for tcpdump in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing tcpdump.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing tcpdump

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing tcpdump within the England region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
London - 7 £650 - 4
South West +19 2 - -
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (10.00%) Multicast
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 2 (20.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (10.00%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (20.00%) Digital Currency
3 1 (10.00%) BYOD
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) MISP
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Automated Trading
4 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Data Extraction
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (20.00%) Kanban
4 2 (20.00%) OOP
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (20.00%) Nessus
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) OpenVAS
3 1 (10.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Solace
2 1 (10.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (10.00%) Carbon Black
2 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Intel
2 1 (10.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys
2 1 (10.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Tenable
2 1 (10.00%) TIBCO