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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 340 385
Rank change year-on-year -81 +45 +52
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 20 25 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.100% 0.19% 0.068%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.22% 1.81% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 10
10th Percentile £425 £461 £390
25th Percentile - £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +15.07%
75th Percentile £511 £528 £588
90th Percentile £538 £579 £783
England median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -36.67%

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 1,640 1,381 1,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.17% 10.33% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 891 996
10th Percentile £305 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £730 £713 £708
England median daily rate £500 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 27
10th Percentile £19.39 £20.32 £20.00
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +17.38% +4.01% -31.44%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £62.05 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £43.00 £55.75
% change year-on-year -37.86% -22.86% -1.32%

Wireshark
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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -16 2 £600 +2.39% 2
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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 13 (65.00%) 5G
2 12 (60.00%) 4G
2 12 (60.00%) LTE
3 11 (55.00%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (35.00%) 3GPP
5 5 (25.00%) BGP
6 4 (20.00%) Firewall
6 4 (20.00%) OSPF
6 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 3 (15.00%) tcpdump
8 2 (10.00%) 2G
8 2 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (10.00%) Diameter Protocol
8 2 (10.00%) Network Security
8 2 (10.00%) SCCP
8 2 (10.00%) SS7
8 2 (10.00%) TCAP
8 2 (10.00%) VoLTE
8 2 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Fiddler
1 2 (10.00%) MSI
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) RAN Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Engineering Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Operations Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Network Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Technologist
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
1 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 10 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (30.00%) Network Design
4 6 (30.00%) Project Management
5 5 (25.00%) Zero Trust
6 4 (20.00%) High Availability
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 2 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
8 2 (10.00%) Application Packaging
8 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
8 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (10.00%) DDoS Mitigation
8 2 (10.00%) DevOps
8 2 (10.00%) Investment Management
8 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
8 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (10.00%) User Experience
8 2 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) C++
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) C
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) KVM
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Ericsson
1 10 (50.00%) Nokia
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco
3 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (15.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) Actix
4 2 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (10.00%) Meraki
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Arista
5 1 (5.00%) F5
5 1 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) NetScout
5 1 (5.00%) SevOne
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk