Wireshark Contract Job Trends in London

Wireshark
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Wireshark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 318 364
Rank change year-on-year -92 +46 +83
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 6 28 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.43% 2.15% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 21
10th Percentile £410 - £300
25th Percentile £415 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -38.89%
75th Percentile £495 £603 £638
90th Percentile £663 £669 £725
England median daily rate £430 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -18.19% -4.55% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,402 1,304 1,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.10% 10.30% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 848 1,170
10th Percentile £300 £263 £205
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £607
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 63
10th Percentile £20.38 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.02 £27.47 £18.36
Median hourly rate £25.79 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +98.86% -42.11%
75th Percentile £39.75 £54.31 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.13 £66.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.38 £36.57 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.87% +4.49% +84.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wireshark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Wireshark job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Wireshark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Wireshark

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in London over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Wireshark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Wireshark

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) IBM Watson
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) Multicast
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) 4G
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (16.67%) GLBP
3 1 (16.67%) HSRP
3 1 (16.67%) Junos
3 1 (16.67%) LTE
3 1 (16.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (16.67%) SSH
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
1 1 (16.67%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Core Network Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Network Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Network Design Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Network Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (16.67%) Performance Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Test Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Kali Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
1 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
2 1 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (16.67%) Observability
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Red Team
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Register
2 1 (16.67%) Runbook
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) GPEN
1 1 (16.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Nmap
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Arista
3 2 (33.33%) SevOne
4 1 (16.67%) Actix
4 1 (16.67%) Aruba
4 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Ericsson
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) IBM
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) McAfee
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki
4 1 (16.67%) NetScout
4 1 (16.67%) Nokia
4 1 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (16.67%) VMware