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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 357 413
Rank change year-on-year +11 +56 +69
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 33 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.12% 0.079%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.64% 1.20% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 11
10th Percentile £447 - £160
25th Percentile £450 £463 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +44.44% -30.77%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £650
90th Percentile £575 £753 £863
England median daily rate £450 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -14.29% +13.51% -22.92%

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 1,252 1,499 2,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.20% 9.65% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 803 925 1,475
10th Percentile £289 £258 £225
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £724 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 16 52
10th Percentile £18.75 £23.70 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +30.13% +16.84%
75th Percentile £43.75 £55.06 £60.44
90th Percentile £62.45 £74.10 £79.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.45
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.57% +34.15%

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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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 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 0 2 - - 3
South London - 2 - -
West London - 1 - -
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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 (6.06%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Akamai
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) Azure
4 5 (15.15%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (45.45%) Firewall
2 12 (36.36%) BGP
2 12 (36.36%) OSPF
3 9 (27.27%) 3GPP
3 9 (27.27%) 4G
3 9 (27.27%) Radio Access Network
3 9 (27.27%) TCP/IP
4 8 (24.24%) tcpdump
5 7 (21.21%) Cisco ISE
5 7 (21.21%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (21.21%) DNS
5 7 (21.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 7 (21.21%) LTE
5 7 (21.21%) SNMP
6 6 (18.18%) VPN
7 5 (15.15%) Multicast
7 5 (15.15%) Network Security
7 5 (15.15%) SSL
8 3 (9.09%) DHCP
9 2 (6.06%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Fiddler
1 2 (6.06%) Metasploit
2 1 (3.03%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Postman
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Telecoms
3 5 (15.15%) Front Office
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Network Design Specialist
2 7 (21.21%) Network Specialist
2 7 (21.21%) Performance Specialist
3 5 (15.15%) Security Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Juniper Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Designer
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Network Designer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Mac Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Mac Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Solutions Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (18.18%) Middleware
2 5 (15.15%) Ultra Messaging
3 4 (12.12%) SAML
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
1 4 (12.12%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.06%) Fixed Income
2 2 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (6.06%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Mac OS
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.03%) Kali Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) High Availability
2 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (21.21%) Network Design
3 7 (21.21%) Network Segmentation
3 7 (21.21%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.18%) Low Latency
4 6 (18.18%) Observability
5 5 (15.15%) Performance Analysis
5 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (12.12%) Benchmarking
6 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (12.12%) Data Protection
6 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
6 4 (12.12%) Project Delivery
6 4 (12.12%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (12.12%) SIEM
6 4 (12.12%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 8 (24.24%) Bash
2 8 (24.24%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) Objective-C
3 1 (3.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) CEH
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) GPEN
1 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (3.03%) OSCP
1 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
1 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) FortiGate
2 6 (18.18%) Grafana
2 6 (18.18%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 3 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) CSIRT
4 1 (3.03%) Nessus
4 1 (3.03%) Nmap
4 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) F5
2 7 (21.21%) Actix
2 7 (21.21%) Cisco
2 7 (21.21%) Ericsson
2 7 (21.21%) Fortinet
2 7 (21.21%) Juniper
2 7 (21.21%) Nokia
2 7 (21.21%) SolarWinds
2 7 (21.21%) Splunk
3 6 (18.18%) Solace
4 5 (15.15%) TIBCO
4 5 (15.15%) Zscaler
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.06%) Dell
6 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.03%) Citrix
7 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (3.03%) Intel
7 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.03%) Spotify