tcpdump Contract Job Trends in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring tcpdump skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 473 538
Rank change year-on-year -55 +65 +143
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 13 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.041% 0.048% 0.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.39% 0.37% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile £360 - £496
25th Percentile £464 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £544
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -12.64% -5.43%
75th Percentile £675 £488 £563
90th Percentile £688 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £524
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.31% -2.56%

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 3,347 3,503 5,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.61% 12.80% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,162 2,048 3,110
10th Percentile £204 £220 £206
25th Percentile £356 £376 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +0.50% -2.93%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 103 311
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.04 £20.24 £24.13
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -38.04% +121.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.25 £73.25 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +15.38% -42.47% +125.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

tcpdump job vacancy trend 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 8 January 2026.

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 8 January 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
London - 10 £570 - 1
South West -12 3 £300 -36.84%
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Wireshark
2 4 (30.77%) Multicast
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) BGP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) OSPF
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Metasploit
2 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (38.46%) Front Office
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Mac Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) FIX Protocol
1 5 (38.46%) Middleware
2 4 (30.77%) Ultra Messaging
3 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Digital Currency
3 1 (7.69%) BYOD
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Low Latency
3 5 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (38.46%) Electronic Trading
3 5 (38.46%) Observability
4 4 (30.77%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (30.77%) Benchmarking
4 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
4 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
4 4 (30.77%) Service-Level Objective
4 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) E-business
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Bash
2 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Objective-C
4 1 (7.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Grafana
1 5 (38.46%) ITRS Geneos
1 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Solace
2 4 (30.77%) TIBCO
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) Intel
4 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Tenable