Wireshark Contract Job Trends in Reading

Wireshark
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Wireshark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 59 95
Rank change year-on-year -30 +36 -
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 1 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.097% 0.97% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.80% 5.61% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
Berkshire median daily rate £471 £450 -
% change year-on-year +4.67% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 125 107 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.10% 17.31% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 41 114
10th Percentile £262 £250 £205
25th Percentile £413 £375 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -1.89% -12.04%
75th Percentile £618 £606 £608
90th Percentile £688 £650 -
Berkshire median daily rate £447 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.89% - -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 12
10th Percentile £16.01 - £77.10
25th Percentile £16.84 - £85.13
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £87.46
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.52%
75th Percentile £57.00 - £87.53
90th Percentile £80.60 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.25 £24.66 £83.77
% change year-on-year +71.33% -70.56% +26.92%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wireshark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Wireshark job vacancy trend in Reading

Wireshark
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Wireshark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IOS XR
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SIGTRAN
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Core Network Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Core Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto