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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 346 366
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +77
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 27 21 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.15% 1.49% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 13
10th Percentile £414 - £485
25th Percentile - £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% -34.91%
75th Percentile £547 £675 £638
90th Percentile £619 £753 £725
England median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -5.17%

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 1,253 1,411 1,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.74% 9.90% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 869 1,243
10th Percentile £300 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £628 £628
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -1.60% +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 59
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £31.13 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £75.31 £76.50
England median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +10.00% -38.04% +121.53%

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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 January 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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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the London region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Central London -2 2 - - 3
Wireshark
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) Akamai
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) Firewall
2 9 (33.33%) 3GPP
2 9 (33.33%) 4G
2 9 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (29.63%) TCP/IP
4 7 (25.93%) LTE
4 7 (25.93%) tcpdump
5 6 (22.22%) BGP
5 6 (22.22%) DNS
5 6 (22.22%) OSPF
5 6 (22.22%) VPN
6 5 (18.52%) Network Security
7 4 (14.81%) Multicast
7 4 (14.81%) SSL
8 2 (7.41%) DHCP
8 2 (7.41%) IPsec
8 2 (7.41%) MPLS
8 2 (7.41%) SNMP
8 2 (7.41%) VLAN
8 2 (7.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Metasploit
2 1 (3.70%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.70%) Fiddler
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Telecoms
3 5 (18.52%) Front Office
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Network Design Specialist
1 7 (25.93%) Network Specialist
1 7 (25.93%) Performance Specialist
2 5 (18.52%) Network Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Support
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms Test Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) FIX Protocol
1 5 (18.52%) Middleware
2 4 (14.81%) Ultra Messaging
3 3 (11.11%) SAML
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (3.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.41%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Kali Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) High Availability
2 7 (25.93%) Network Design
2 7 (25.93%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (18.52%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (18.52%) Low Latency
4 5 (18.52%) Observability
4 5 (18.52%) Zero Trust
5 4 (14.81%) Benchmarking
5 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
5 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
5 4 (14.81%) Performance Analysis
5 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
5 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
5 4 (14.81%) Service-Level Objective
5 4 (14.81%) SIEM
5 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Bash
1 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
1 8 (29.63%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) Objective-C
2 1 (3.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) CEH
1 1 (3.70%) GPEN
1 1 (3.70%) OSCP
1 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Grafana
1 5 (18.52%) ITRS Geneos
1 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
2 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.41%) Ansible
3 2 (7.41%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.70%) CSIRT
4 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.70%) Nessus
4 1 (3.70%) Nmap
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Actix
1 7 (25.93%) Ericsson
1 7 (25.93%) Nokia
2 6 (22.22%) Splunk
3 5 (18.52%) Solace
4 4 (14.81%) TIBCO
4 4 (14.81%) Zscaler
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco
5 3 (11.11%) F5
5 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.41%) Dell
6 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.70%) Aruba
7 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (3.70%) Intel
7 1 (3.70%) Juniper
7 1 (3.70%) Meraki
7 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds