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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 366 433
Rank change year-on-year +22 +67 +84
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 29 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.067% 0.091%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.18% 0.72% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 14
10th Percentile - - £153
25th Percentile £450 £463 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £456
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +15.07% -29.81%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £713
90th Percentile £603 £783 £1,116
England median daily rate £450 £525 £470
% change year-on-year -14.29% +11.70% -18.26%

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 1,328 1,531 2,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.86% 9.39% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 972 1,590
10th Percentile £289 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £389 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 44
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.61%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.25
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

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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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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +3 2 - - 2
South London - 2 - - 2
West London - 1 - -
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
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 2 (6.90%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Akamai
3 8 (27.59%) Azure
4 5 (17.24%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (68.97%) Firewall
2 14 (48.28%) BGP
2 14 (48.28%) OSPF
3 9 (31.03%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (31.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 9 (31.03%) Network Security
4 8 (27.59%) DNS
5 7 (24.14%) 3GPP
5 7 (24.14%) 4G
5 7 (24.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (24.14%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (24.14%) SNMP
6 6 (20.69%) SSL
6 6 (20.69%) VPN
7 5 (17.24%) LTE
7 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
8 4 (13.79%) MPLS
9 3 (10.34%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (10.34%) DHCP
9 3 (10.34%) tcpdump
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Fiddler
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) Metasploit
1 1 (3.45%) Postman
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Front Office
5 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Network Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Security Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Network Security Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Network Design Specialist
4 5 (17.24%) Network Specialist
4 5 (17.24%) Performance Specialist
5 4 (13.79%) Juniper Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Designer
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Network Designer
7 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Applications Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) SOC Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) SAML
2 2 (6.90%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (6.90%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) Ultra Messaging
3 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) High Availability
2 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (24.14%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (17.24%) Network Design
4 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (13.79%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (13.79%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (13.79%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (13.79%) SIEM
5 4 (13.79%) Zero Trust
6 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.34%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.90%) Application Security
7 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps
7 2 (6.90%) Ethical Hacking
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (6.90%) Load Balancing
7 2 (6.90%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) Bash
2 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) CCNP
1 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) NIST
1 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) FortiGate
2 3 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Grafana
3 2 (6.90%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) CSIRT
4 1 (3.45%) Nessus
4 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) F5
2 11 (37.93%) Cisco
3 9 (31.03%) Juniper
3 9 (31.03%) SolarWinds
4 8 (27.59%) Fortinet
4 8 (27.59%) Splunk
5 7 (24.14%) Zscaler
6 5 (17.24%) Actix
6 5 (17.24%) Ericsson
6 5 (17.24%) Nokia
7 4 (13.79%) Palo Alto
8 3 (10.34%) CheckPoint
9 2 (6.90%) Dell
9 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
9 2 (6.90%) Solace
10 1 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (3.45%) Intel
10 1 (3.45%) Refinitiv
10 1 (3.45%) Spotify
10 1 (3.45%) Tenable