Wireshark Contracts in London

Wireshark
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 393 449
Rank change year-on-year +60 +56 +89
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 27 14 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.079% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.00% 0.83% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 30
10th Percentile - £300 £150
25th Percentile £463 £350 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £627
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -16.27% -3.54%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £900
90th Percentile £633 £638 £1,225
England median daily rate £463 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -10.19% +8.42% -17.39%

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 1,349 1,684 2,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.29% 9.56% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,115 1,865
10th Percentile £263 £226 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £624 £619 £670
90th Percentile £716 £738 £775
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 49 48
10th Percentile £19.14 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.78 £16.86 £22.75
Median hourly rate £33.75 £23.80 £38.27
Median % change year-on-year +41.81% -37.81% +39.16%
75th Percentile £49.69 £41.25 £69.63
90th Percentile £62.25 £60.00 £76.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireshark in London

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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 3 July 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
Central London +7 1 £586 +11.62% 7
Wireshark
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Akamai
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) Datadog
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (77.78%) Firewall
2 16 (59.26%) Network Security
3 12 (44.44%) BGP
3 12 (44.44%) OSPF
4 8 (29.63%) EIGRP
4 8 (29.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 7 (25.93%) Cisco IOS
5 7 (25.93%) Cisco ISE
5 7 (25.93%) HSRP
5 7 (25.93%) RIP
5 7 (25.93%) SNMP
5 7 (25.93%) Spanning Tree
5 7 (25.93%) VRRP
6 6 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (22.22%) NX-OS
7 5 (18.52%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (14.81%) DNS
8 4 (14.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
9 3 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Fiddler
3 1 (3.70%) IntelliJ
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) JMeter
3 1 (3.70%) JProfiler
3 1 (3.70%) LoadRunner
3 1 (3.70%) Postman
3 1 (3.70%) Toad
General
1 11 (40.74%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (85.19%) Network Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Deployment Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Network Deployment Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Network Operations Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Citrix Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Performance Test Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) 802.1X
2 4 (14.81%) JSON
2 4 (14.81%) XML
3 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.70%) SAML
4 1 (3.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.70%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (25.93%) Matrix Organization
3 6 (22.22%) Service Management
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Database Tuning
5 4 (14.81%) High Availability
5 4 (14.81%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis
6 3 (11.11%) Event Correlation
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.11%) Load Balancing
6 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (11.11%) SIEM
6 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.41%) Cloud Security
7 2 (7.41%) Observability
7 2 (7.41%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) Java
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) CCNP
1 8 (29.63%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) CCNA
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) CCIE
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (11.11%) iptables
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) FortiGate
3 3 (11.11%) Cacti
3 3 (11.11%) Grafana
3 3 (11.11%) Nagios
3 3 (11.11%) Netcool
3 3 (11.11%) Proxmox
3 3 (11.11%) Puppet
3 3 (11.11%) ZABBIX
4 2 (7.41%) Terraform
5 1 (3.70%) CASB
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (3.70%) Graylog
5 1 (3.70%) logstash
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.70%) OPNET
5 1 (3.70%) Perfmon
5 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.70%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Cisco
2 11 (40.74%) F5
3 8 (29.63%) Juniper
4 7 (25.93%) Fortinet
4 7 (25.93%) SolarWinds
4 7 (25.93%) Splunk
5 6 (22.22%) CheckPoint
5 6 (22.22%) Palo Alto
6 4 (14.81%) Zscaler
7 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
7 3 (11.11%) Nokia
7 3 (11.11%) VMware
8 2 (7.41%) Blue Coat
8 2 (7.41%) Citrix
8 2 (7.41%) Infoblox
8 2 (7.41%) Meraki
8 2 (7.41%) NetScout
9 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
9 1 (3.70%) Refinitiv
9 1 (3.70%) Spotify