Wireshark Contracts in the Midlands

Wireshark
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Wireshark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireshark over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 126 148
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +42
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Wireshark 20 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 0.37% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.13% 2.66% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £337 - £431
25th Percentile £420 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.89%
75th Percentile £491 - £559
90th Percentile £505 - £584
England median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -17.39%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 376 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.78% 13.96% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 228 310
10th Percentile £238 £204 £206
25th Percentile £330 £309 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +16.47% -
75th Percentile £563 £626 £575
90th Percentile £641 £733 £726
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 23
10th Percentile - - £13.55
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £14.27 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.72% -48.11% +52.78%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.15 £54.00
90th Percentile £39.23 - £67.50
England median hourly rate £42.00 £54.94 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.55% -2.75% +43.01%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Wireshark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the Midlands

Wireshark
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Wireshark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the Midlands

Wireshark
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +11 20 £479 - 7
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Akamai
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
1 7 (35.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 9 (45.00%) WAN
3 6 (30.00%) LAN
4 5 (25.00%) DNS
4 5 (25.00%) Network Security
4 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 5 (25.00%) Wireless
5 4 (20.00%) BGP
5 4 (20.00%) EIGRP
5 4 (20.00%) OSPF
5 4 (20.00%) VLAN
6 3 (15.00%) DHCP
7 2 (10.00%) BIG-IP
7 2 (10.00%) DMZ
7 2 (10.00%) Ethereal
7 2 (10.00%) HTTP
7 2 (10.00%) IPsec
7 2 (10.00%) SSL
7 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Fiddler
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Junior
4 2 (10.00%) Junior Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Application Security
1 7 (35.00%) DevSecOps
1 7 (35.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) OWASP
3 5 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (20.00%) High Availability
4 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (20.00%) Remote Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (15.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) CCNP
1 7 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CCIE
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) JNCIA
4 1 (5.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Def Stans
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) CSIRT
2 5 (25.00%) Ansible
3 4 (20.00%) HP ALM
4 2 (10.00%) OpenView
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) F5
2 11 (55.00%) Cisco
3 7 (35.00%) Splunk
4 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
5 4 (20.00%) HP
5 4 (20.00%) Juniper
5 4 (20.00%) Micro Focus
5 4 (20.00%) Progress
6 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
7 2 (10.00%) Blue Coat
7 2 (10.00%) McAfee
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (10.00%) NetApp
8 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
8 1 (5.00%) Oracle
8 1 (5.00%) Zscaler