Wireshark Contracts in England

Wireshark
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Wireshark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireshark over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 469 538
Rank change year-on-year +47 +69 +174
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 63 73 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.98% 1.46% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 69
10th Percentile £335 £305 £287
25th Percentile £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +4.76% -3.89%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £900
90th Percentile £691 £669 -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -18.18% +7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £78.20
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.98%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Wireshark 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 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Wireshark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in England.

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in England.

Hourly rate trend for Wireshark in England

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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 Wireshark within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +43 29 £525 -4.55% 22
South East +60 23 £450 +50.00% 13
South West +37 6 £340 -30.26% 2
Midlands +16 1 £145 -73.64% 6
North West +15 1 - - 3
North of England +12 1 - - 3
West Midlands +10 1 £145 -73.64% 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) AWS
2 8 (12.70%) Azure
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.59%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.59%) Datadog
4 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.59%) GCP
4 1 (1.59%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (39.68%) Firewall
2 21 (33.33%) WAN
3 20 (31.75%) MPLS
4 19 (30.16%) LAN
5 18 (28.57%) LTE
5 18 (28.57%) VPN
6 17 (26.98%) Network Security
7 16 (25.40%) ATM
7 16 (25.40%) Ethernet
7 16 (25.40%) Frame Relay
7 16 (25.40%) GPRS
7 16 (25.40%) GSM
7 16 (25.40%) SAN
7 16 (25.40%) SDH
7 16 (25.40%) UMTS
8 10 (15.87%) 5G
8 10 (15.87%) BGP
8 10 (15.87%) EIGRP
8 10 (15.87%) OSPF
9 8 (12.70%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) GitLab
2 2 (3.17%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.59%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.59%) JMeter
3 1 (1.59%) JProfiler
3 1 (1.59%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.59%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.59%) Toad
General
1 36 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 25 (39.68%) Telecoms
3 20 (31.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.70%) Finance
5 3 (4.76%) Banking
5 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.17%) Back Office
6 2 (3.17%) Front Office
6 2 (3.17%) Multimedia
6 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (47.62%) Network Engineer
2 15 (23.81%) IP Engineer
2 15 (23.81%) Test Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Analyst
3 6 (9.52%) Deployment Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Network Design Specialist
3 6 (9.52%) Network Specialist
3 6 (9.52%) Senior
4 5 (7.94%) IP Network Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Applications Support
5 4 (6.35%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Consultant
6 3 (4.76%) Network Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) 802.1X
2 5 (7.94%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (6.35%) JSON
3 4 (6.35%) XML
4 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.59%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.40%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.76%) Eurex
3 3 (4.76%) Replication
4 2 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) PKI
5 1 (1.59%) Bitcoin
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.59%) Equities
5 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.59%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 24 (38.10%) Linux
2 18 (28.57%) Unix
3 3 (4.76%) CentOS
3 3 (4.76%) Windows
4 2 (3.17%) Rocky
5 1 (1.59%) Debian
5 1 (1.59%) Fedora
5 1 (1.59%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.59%) Solaris
5 1 (1.59%) SUSE
5 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.59%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.27%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (26.98%) Network Monitoring
3 16 (25.40%) Fault Management
3 16 (25.40%) Project Management
3 16 (25.40%) Regression Testing
3 16 (25.40%) Test Strategy
4 10 (15.87%) Matrix Organization
4 10 (15.87%) Network Design
5 8 (12.70%) Service Management
6 7 (11.11%) Process Improvement
7 6 (9.52%) Computer Science
8 5 (7.94%) Client Onboarding
8 5 (7.94%) Customer Experience
8 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (7.94%) Load Balancing
9 4 (6.35%) Database Tuning
9 4 (6.35%) Network Architecture
9 4 (6.35%) SIEM
9 4 (6.35%) Validation
10 3 (4.76%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.75%) Java
2 15 (23.81%) Python
3 7 (11.11%) SQL
4 6 (9.52%) Bash
5 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.76%) Perl
7 1 (1.59%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (42.86%) CCNP
1 27 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (25.40%) ISEB
2 16 (25.40%) ISTQB
2 16 (25.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
4 6 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (9.52%) Degree
5 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.17%) CCIE
6 2 (3.17%) CCNA
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.59%) CCSA
7 1 (1.59%) CEH
7 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (4.76%) iptables
2 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (14.29%) Ansible
2 6 (9.52%) ZABBIX
3 5 (7.94%) Rundeck
3 5 (7.94%) Terraform
4 3 (4.76%) Cacti
4 3 (4.76%) Grafana
4 3 (4.76%) Nagios
4 3 (4.76%) Netcool
4 3 (4.76%) Proxmox
4 3 (4.76%) Puppet
5 2 (3.17%) Iperf
5 2 (3.17%) Nessus
5 2 (3.17%) OPNET
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco LMS
6 1 (1.59%) Graylog
6 1 (1.59%) logstash
6 1 (1.59%) OpenVAS
6 1 (1.59%) Perfmon
6 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.59%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (53.97%) Cisco
2 23 (36.51%) Juniper
3 20 (31.75%) Microsoft
4 11 (17.46%) F5
5 10 (15.87%) Palo Alto
6 9 (14.29%) Nokia
7 8 (12.70%) CheckPoint
8 7 (11.11%) SolarWinds
8 7 (11.11%) Splunk
9 6 (9.52%) Ericsson
9 6 (9.52%) NetScout
10 4 (6.35%) Bloomberg
10 4 (6.35%) Infoblox
10 4 (6.35%) Zscaler
11 3 (4.76%) Fortinet
11 3 (4.76%) Meraki
11 3 (4.76%) Oracle
11 3 (4.76%) Patsystems
11 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
11 3 (4.76%) Trayport