tcpdump Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring tcpdump skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 184 -
Rank change year-on-year -73 - -
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.041% 0.025% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £374 - -
25th Percentile £391 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £420 £650 £375
% change year-on-year -35.38% +73.33% -24.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

tcpdump 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 861 542 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.68% 13.65% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 315 311
10th Percentile £250 £166 £213
25th Percentile £363 £325 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -12.62% +14.44%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £650
90th Percentile £638 £638 £823
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 3 20
10th Percentile £17.25 £21.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.30 £23.00 £18.21
Median hourly rate £22.81 £27.00 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% +8.56% +42.11%
75th Percentile £25.77 £49.08 £46.69
90th Percentile £28.00 £61.73 £51.91
England median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £54.94
% change year-on-year -36.36% -19.91% +5.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing tcpdump relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

tcpdump job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing tcpdump.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing tcpdump

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing tcpdump.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing tcpdump

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing tcpdump within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
North West -36 3 £420 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (33.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) GCIA
2 1 (33.33%) GCIH
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIA
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Suricata
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Infoblox
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto