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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 510 515
Rank change year-on-year -110 +5 +65
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 9 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.020% 0.029% 0.009%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.24% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £376 £595 -
25th Percentile £395 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £650 £400
Median % change year-on-year -35.96% +62.50% -18.99%
75th Percentile £420 £738 -
90th Percentile - £760 -
UK median daily rate £416 £650 £400
% change year-on-year -35.96% +62.50% -18.99%

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 4,304 3,367 4,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.22% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,091 2,476
10th Percentile £263 £245 £243
25th Percentile £400 £374 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 168 266
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.72 £43.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.86% -22.86% -1.32%
75th Percentile £65.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.78% -7.50% -11.49%

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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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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 26 August 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
North West -47 3 £420 -
North of England -70 3 £420 - 1
London -79 3 - - 2
South West -43 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £413 -
Midlands - 1 £413 -
South East - 1 £413 -
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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 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (11.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Wireshark
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
3 4 (44.44%) 5G
3 4 (44.44%) Firewall
3 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
3 4 (44.44%) VPN
4 3 (33.33%) 4G
4 3 (33.33%) VLAN
5 2 (22.22%) 2G
5 2 (22.22%) 3G
5 2 (22.22%) BGP
5 2 (22.22%) DHCP
5 2 (22.22%) Diameter Protocol
5 2 (22.22%) LAN
5 2 (22.22%) LTE
5 2 (22.22%) OSPF
5 2 (22.22%) SCCP
5 2 (22.22%) SS7
5 2 (22.22%) TCAP
5 2 (22.22%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technologist
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Change Control
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) CCNA
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) GCIA
2 1 (11.11%) GCIH
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIA
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIS
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) PhD
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) KVM
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Suricata
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Aruba
2 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 2 (22.22%) Infoblox
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto