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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 465 532
Rank change year-on-year -124 +67 +116
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 6 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.015% 0.029% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £331 - £350
25th Percentile £373 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% -7.32% -4.65%
75th Percentile £420 - £553
90th Percentile £460 - £563
UK median daily rate £420 £438 £510
% change year-on-year -4.00% -14.22% -5.12%

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 3,824 3,190 5,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.78% 13.10% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,422 2,006 3,157
10th Percentile £225 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £480
% change year-on-year +2.56% +1.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 120 390
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.64 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.25 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.13% +1.32% +100.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £68.77
UK median hourly rate £43.85 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +16.94% - +97.37%

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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 9 April 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 9 April 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 - 3 £420 -
North of England - 3 £420 -
South East -56 2 £456 -3.95% 1
South West - 1 £300 -
West Midlands - 1 £413 -
Midlands - 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 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (16.67%) Route 53
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) OSPF
2 4 (66.67%) VLAN
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) 5G
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) MPLS
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) WAN
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (16.67%) NetScaler
5 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Core Network Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Core Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IP Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IP Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IP Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Runbook
2 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Test Management
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNA
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) GCIA
2 1 (16.67%) GCIH
2 1 (16.67%) JNCIA
2 1 (16.67%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Suricata
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Aruba
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) NetScout