Wireshark Contracts in the North of England

Wireshark
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 171 194
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +58
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 5 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.14% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.93% 1.57% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £422 £442 £263
25th Percentile £428 £468 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £515 £325
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% +58.46% -40.91%
75th Percentile £448 £578 £363
90th Percentile £451 £632 £415
England median daily rate £463 £520 £481
% change year-on-year -11.06% +8.05% -16.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate - £47.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -36.67% +13.98%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 536 572 675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.06% 11.86% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 380 446
10th Percentile £193 £200 £198
25th Percentile £333 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £620 £570
90th Percentile £638 £775 £672
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 27 42
10th Percentile £27.70 £13.42 £9.80
25th Percentile £34.78 £21.63 -
Median hourly rate £47.37 £26.00 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +82.20% +144.59% -40.35%
75th Percentile £59.17 £47.38 £21.80
90th Percentile £65.76 £49.65 £43.55
England median hourly rate £37.50 £46.69 £20.71
% change year-on-year -19.68% +125.50% -17.32%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the North of England

Wireshark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Wireshark in the North of England

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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 Wireshark within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
North West +16 5 £442 - 13
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (80.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) 3GPP
1 4 (80.00%) 4G
1 4 (80.00%) 5G
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) IPsec
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
1 4 (80.00%) OSPF
1 4 (80.00%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (80.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) tcpdump
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Designer
1 4 (80.00%) Network Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) MISP
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (20.00%) SIEM
1 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nessus
1 1 (20.00%) OpenVAS
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (20.00%) Carbon Black
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk