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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 317 376
Rank change year-on-year -102 +59 +67
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 7 26 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.038% 0.22% 0.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% 2.08% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 16
10th Percentile - £463 £300
25th Percentile £419 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £638
90th Percentile £680 £633 -
England median daily rate £434 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -8.68% -13.64% +10.00%

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 1,453 1,250 1,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.92% 10.36% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 807 1,123
10th Percentile £300 £263 £215
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £701 £714 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.87%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £59.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.34% -1.70% +134.40%

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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 June 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 3 June 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 -18 1 - - 1
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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Watson
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) BGP
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) DWDM
2 3 (42.86%) MPLS
2 3 (42.86%) OSPF
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) Multicast
3 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) Wireless
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (14.29%) GLBP
4 1 (14.29%) HSRP
4 1 (14.29%) Junos
4 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Fiddler
1 1 (14.29%) MSI
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Core Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) Django
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
2 3 (42.86%) Runbook
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
3 2 (28.57%) DDoS Mitigation
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Management
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Network Design
4 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Arista
3 2 (28.57%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (28.57%) Meraki
3 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 2 (28.57%) SevOne
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Aruba
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 1 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) McAfee
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) NetScout
4 1 (14.29%) Splunk