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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 330 374
Rank change year-on-year -45 +44 +68
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 16 26 23
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.100% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 1.97% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 19
10th Percentile £407 £463 £300
25th Percentile £441 £494 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £618 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +12.36% -38.89%
75th Percentile £493 £675 £638
90th Percentile £533 £713 £725
England median daily rate £450 £550 £526
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.51% -12.29%

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 1,340 1,321 1,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.35% 10.12% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 830 1,199
10th Percentile £258 £257 £200
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £619
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 13 75
10th Percentile £20.82 - £15.09
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +59.09% -14.43%
75th Percentile £29.04 £43.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.00 £60.35 £61.05
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +110.53%

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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 9 March 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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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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Akamai
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Watson
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Multicast
2 5 (31.25%) tcpdump
3 4 (25.00%) 3GPP
3 4 (25.00%) 4G
3 4 (25.00%) LTE
3 4 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (18.75%) Firewall
4 3 (18.75%) VPN
4 3 (18.75%) WAN
5 2 (12.50%) LAN
5 2 (12.50%) Network Security
5 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (6.25%) GLBP
6 1 (6.25%) HSRP
6 1 (6.25%) Junos
6 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
6 1 (6.25%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Burp Suite
1 1 (6.25%) Fiddler
1 1 (6.25%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
3 4 (25.00%) Front Office
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Network Design Specialist
1 4 (25.00%) Network Specialist
1 4 (25.00%) Performance Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Network Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Support
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (25.00%) Middleware
1 4 (25.00%) Ultra Messaging
2 1 (6.25%) Django
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Kali Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Observability
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Network Design
2 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 4 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (25.00%) High Availability
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (18.75%) E-business
4 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Bash
2 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Objective-C
3 1 (6.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) CEH
1 1 (6.25%) GPEN
1 1 (6.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Grafana
1 4 (25.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) CSIRT
3 1 (6.25%) Nmap
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Actix
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco
1 4 (25.00%) Ericsson
1 4 (25.00%) Nokia
1 4 (25.00%) Solace
1 4 (25.00%) TIBCO
2 3 (18.75%) Arista
3 2 (12.50%) F5
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) SevOne
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Aruba
4 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) Juniper
4 1 (6.25%) McAfee
4 1 (6.25%) NetScout
4 1 (6.25%) VMware