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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 522 559
Rank change year-on-year +9 +37 +170
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 15 10 23
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.053% 0.031% 0.057%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.45% 0.26% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 9
10th Percentile £455 - £388
25th Percentile £497 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £488 £600
90th Percentile £741 - £793
UK median daily rate £595 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +25.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 3,313 3,860 5,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.66% 12.16% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,123 2,222 3,526
10th Percentile £213 £235 £213
25th Percentile £360 £381 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £610
90th Percentile £688 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 142 308
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.65 £17.29
25th Percentile £19.73 £26.44 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £56.13 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -41.61% -0.65% +36.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.40
% change year-on-year -29.98% -13.90% +41.00%

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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 22 October 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 22 October 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 - 12 £595 -
South West +8 2 - -
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 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 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) Wireshark
2 5 (33.33%) Multicast
2 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Front Office
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Network Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Mac Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (40.00%) Middleware
2 5 (33.33%) Ultra Messaging
3 4 (26.67%) RESTful
4 2 (13.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Currency
2 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) BYOD
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) MISP
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (46.67%) Electronic Trading
2 7 (46.67%) Low Latency
3 6 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Observability
4 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 5 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
4 5 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (26.67%) Benchmarking
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
5 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (26.67%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Bash
2 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) Objective-C
4 1 (6.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Grafana
1 6 (40.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 6 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Nessus
4 1 (6.67%) OpenVAS
4 1 (6.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Solace
2 5 (33.33%) TIBCO
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) ArcSight
4 1 (6.67%) Carbon Black
4 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Intel
4 1 (6.67%) LogRhythm
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Qualys
4 1 (6.67%) Rapid7
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Tenable