Wireshark Contract Job Trends in the South East

Wireshark
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Wireshark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 169 204
Rank change year-on-year +4 +35 +28
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 16 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.42% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.64% 1.35% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 5
10th Percentile £204 £453 £390
25th Percentile £254 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.70% -0.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £498 £544 £600
90th Percentile £611 £556 -
England median daily rate £450 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -14.29% +13.51% -22.92%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 605 739 1,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.73% 17.78% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 411 641
10th Percentile £204 £237 £205
25th Percentile £329 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £587 £604 £580
90th Percentile £629 £651 £650
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 40 75
10th Percentile £18.32 £26.93 £16.80
25th Percentile £27.01 £35.00 £24.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.99
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +20.71% +28.87%
75th Percentile £86.32 £75.00 £75.67
90th Percentile £90.45 - £77.60
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.65% +29.86%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in the South East over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Wireshark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Thames Valley +7 9 £425 -14.57% 18
Berkshire +4 9 £425 -14.57% 17
Surrey - 4 £208 - 4
Hampshire - 3 £650 - 1
Wireshark
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) HTTP
2 4 (25.00%) FTP
3 3 (18.75%) BGP
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (18.75%) Firewall
3 3 (18.75%) MPLS
3 3 (18.75%) Multicast
3 3 (18.75%) OSPF
3 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (18.75%) VLAN
3 3 (18.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Burp Suite
1 7 (43.75%) Metasploit
2 2 (12.50%) Fiddler
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Tester
2 7 (43.75%) Penetration Tester
3 6 (37.50%) Support Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Technical Support
3 6 (37.50%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Tester
5 2 (12.50%) Validation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) REST
1 4 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (12.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Kali Linux
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) Unix
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 7 (43.75%) Ethical Hacking
2 7 (43.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 7 (43.75%) OWASP
2 7 (43.75%) Penetration Testing
2 7 (43.75%) Red Team
3 4 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Escalation Management
3 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (25.00%) OO
3 4 (25.00%) OOP
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
5 2 (12.50%) Resource Management
5 2 (12.50%) Test Planning
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Bash
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) PowerShell
3 4 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) CEH
2 7 (43.75%) GPEN
2 7 (43.75%) OSCP
3 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) CCIE
4 2 (12.50%) CCNP
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Nmap
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Iperf
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco
1 3 (18.75%) Fortinet
1 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
1 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft