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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 497 523
Rank change year-on-year -120 +26 +40
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 14 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.030% 0.036% 0.027%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.31% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £337 £595 -
25th Percentile £366 £618 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -43.54% +36.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £722 £488
90th Percentile £612 £756 -
UK median daily rate £367 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -43.58% +36.84% -5.00%

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 4,345 3,273 3,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.34% 11.75% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,564 2,061 2,306
10th Percentile £250 £225 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.21% +1.25%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 168 194
10th Percentile £16.02 £15.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £21.33 £24.75 £23.90
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.66 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -30.85% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -22.94% -15.84% -10.60%

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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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -94 9 £543 -16.54% 13
East of England - 3 £367 - 3
South West -37 2 - - 1
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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 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) BlazeMeter
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) Wireshark
2 7 (50.00%) 5G
3 5 (35.71%) 3GPP
3 5 (35.71%) NGN
3 5 (35.71%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (28.57%) RTP
4 4 (28.57%) VoIP
5 3 (21.43%) DNS
5 3 (21.43%) Firewall
5 3 (21.43%) INAP
5 3 (21.43%) VPN
6 2 (14.29%) 2G
6 2 (14.29%) 3G
6 2 (14.29%) 4G
6 2 (14.29%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (14.29%) LTE
6 2 (14.29%) SCCP
6 2 (14.29%) SS7
6 2 (14.29%) TCAP
6 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) JMeter
2 3 (21.43%) Locust
2 3 (21.43%) Robot Framework
2 3 (21.43%) TestCafe
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.14%) Newman
General
1 9 (64.29%) Telecoms
2 8 (57.14%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
3 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Technologist
2 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) VoIP Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) VoIP Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) QA Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Taurus
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) CentOS
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) AI
3 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
3 5 (35.71%) Network Optimisation
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Validation
5 3 (21.43%) Build Automation
5 3 (21.43%) ITIL
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Test Management
6 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
1 5 (35.71%) Master's Degree
1 5 (35.71%) PhD
2 4 (28.57%) MOS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) KVM
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Dialogic
1 3 (21.43%) Metaswitch
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Arista
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto