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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 494 537
Rank change year-on-year +79 +43 +131
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 71 65 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.20% 1.35% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 66
10th Percentile £388 £315 £231
25th Percentile £448 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +9.09% -16.30%
75th Percentile £534 £638 £620
90th Percentile £700 £659 £900
UK median daily rate £450 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -12.20% +5.13% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.67% +13.98%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £77.56
90th Percentile - - £77.68
UK median hourly rate - £47.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -36.67% +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 3,224 4,817 5,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.84% 12.86% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,995 2,871 3,877
10th Percentile £230 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £361 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 396 411
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.68 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +141.47% -23.23%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £60.60
90th Percentile £81.35 £73.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.48 £45.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +136.84% -33.23%

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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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +55 26 £500 -6.98% 37
South East +55 21 £450 -4.26% 14
Midlands +14 10 £335 -39.09% 9
West Midlands +10 10 £335 -39.09% 7
South West +41 5 £508 - 3
North of England +14 5 £442 -14.13% 21
North West +3 5 £442 - 17
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Wireshark
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 5 (7.04%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.72%) AWS
2 7 (9.86%) Azure
3 4 (5.63%) Akamai
4 2 (2.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.41%) Datadog
5 1 (1.41%) GCP
5 1 (1.41%) GitHub
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (49.30%) Firewall
2 26 (36.62%) WAN
3 23 (32.39%) LAN
3 23 (32.39%) MPLS
4 22 (30.99%) BGP
4 22 (30.99%) Network Security
4 22 (30.99%) OSPF
5 18 (25.35%) VPN
6 15 (21.13%) ATM
6 15 (21.13%) Ethernet
6 15 (21.13%) Frame Relay
6 15 (21.13%) GPRS
6 15 (21.13%) GSM
6 15 (21.13%) LTE
6 15 (21.13%) SAN
6 15 (21.13%) SDH
6 15 (21.13%) UMTS
7 13 (18.31%) EIGRP
8 10 (14.08%) DNS
8 10 (14.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) GitLab
2 2 (2.82%) Git
2 2 (2.82%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.41%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.41%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.41%) JMeter
3 1 (1.41%) JProfiler
3 1 (1.41%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.41%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.41%) Toad
General
1 35 (49.30%) Social Skills
2 25 (35.21%) Telecoms
3 19 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 41 (57.75%) Network Engineer
2 18 (25.35%) Test Engineer
3 14 (19.72%) IP Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Network Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Network Security Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Security Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Designer
6 5 (7.04%) IP Network Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Network Designer
6 5 (7.04%) Senior
7 3 (4.23%) Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) Juniper Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Network Operations Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) IP Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.68%) 802.1X
2 4 (5.63%) JSON
2 4 (5.63%) XML
3 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth
4 1 (1.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (12.68%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.04%) Operational Technology
4 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.23%) Replication
6 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.82%) PKI
7 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.41%) MISP
7 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (28.17%) Linux
2 16 (22.54%) Unix
3 3 (4.23%) Windows
4 1 (1.41%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.21%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (22.54%) Network Monitoring
3 15 (21.13%) Fault Management
3 15 (21.13%) Project Management
3 15 (21.13%) Regression Testing
3 15 (21.13%) Test Strategy
4 10 (14.08%) Service Management
5 8 (11.27%) High Availability
6 7 (9.86%) Matrix Organization
7 6 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (8.45%) Mentoring
8 5 (7.04%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (7.04%) Load Balancing
9 4 (5.63%) Database Tuning
9 4 (5.63%) DevOps
9 4 (5.63%) Network Segmentation
9 4 (5.63%) Remote Testing
9 4 (5.63%) SIEM
9 4 (5.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.76%) Java
2 13 (18.31%) Python
3 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.63%) SQL
5 2 (2.82%) Bash
6 1 (1.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (42.25%) CCNP
1 30 (42.25%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (22.54%) Security Cleared
3 15 (21.13%) ISEB
3 15 (21.13%) ISTQB
3 15 (21.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
5 6 (8.45%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.63%) CCIE
7 3 (4.23%) CCNA
7 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.23%) Degree
8 2 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.41%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (1.41%) CEH
9 1 (1.41%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.41%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) SLA
2 1 (1.41%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (4.23%) iptables
3 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (15.49%) Ansible
2 4 (5.63%) FortiGate
2 4 (5.63%) HP ALM
2 4 (5.63%) Terraform
3 3 (4.23%) Cacti
3 3 (4.23%) Grafana
3 3 (4.23%) Nagios
3 3 (4.23%) Netcool
3 3 (4.23%) Proxmox
3 3 (4.23%) Puppet
3 3 (4.23%) ZABBIX
4 2 (2.82%) Iperf
4 2 (2.82%) Nessus
4 2 (2.82%) OpenView
5 1 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.41%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (1.41%) Graylog
5 1 (1.41%) logstash
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.41%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 44 (61.97%) Cisco
2 29 (40.85%) Juniper
3 19 (26.76%) Microsoft
4 15 (21.13%) F5
5 14 (19.72%) SolarWinds
6 9 (12.68%) Fortinet
7 8 (11.27%) Palo Alto
8 7 (9.86%) Splunk
9 6 (8.45%) CheckPoint
10 5 (7.04%) Dell
11 4 (5.63%) HP
11 4 (5.63%) Micro Focus
11 4 (5.63%) NetScout
11 4 (5.63%) Progress
11 4 (5.63%) Zscaler
12 3 (4.23%) Infoblox
12 3 (4.23%) Nokia
12 3 (4.23%) VMware
13 2 (2.82%) Blue Coat
13 2 (2.82%) BMC