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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 150 186
Rank change year-on-year -60 +36 +5
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 21 15 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.32% 0.43% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.63% 2.50% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 4
10th Percentile £284 £390 £453
25th Percentile £406 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -9.55% -0.50%
75th Percentile £592 - £544
90th Percentile £646 - £556
England median daily rate £450 £450 £515
% change year-on-year - -12.62% +14.44%

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 797 600 1,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.13% 17.32% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 404 528
10th Percentile £271 £204 £260
25th Percentile £409 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -1.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.45% -0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 31 111
10th Percentile £17.61 £14.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.63 £51.06
Median hourly rate £42.48 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -22.77% -4.10% -0.26%
75th Percentile £56.21 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £63.54 £89.63 £85.25
England median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -40.62% -10.89% +1.00%

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 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the South East

Wireshark
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 29 July 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
Thames Valley -42 15 £430 -4.44% 1
Berkshire -33 14 £423 -6.11% 1
Hampshire - 4 £643 - 3
Surrey - 2 £208 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 -
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
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 6 (28.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) IaaS
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) PaaS
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) MPLS
2 9 (42.86%) LTE
3 8 (38.10%) 5G
4 7 (33.33%) Diameter Protocol
4 7 (33.33%) VPN
5 6 (28.57%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (28.57%) VoLTE
5 6 (28.57%) VoWiFi
5 6 (28.57%) WAN
6 5 (23.81%) BGP
6 5 (23.81%) Firewall
6 5 (23.81%) LAN
6 5 (23.81%) OSPF
7 3 (14.29%) GPRS
7 3 (14.29%) GSM
7 3 (14.29%) HTTP
7 3 (14.29%) IPsec
7 3 (14.29%) UMTS
8 2 (9.52%) DNS
8 2 (9.52%) FTP
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 3 (14.29%) Military
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Aviation
5 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) IP Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Tester
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Support
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Core Network Design Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IP Design Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IP Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Validation Tester
5 1 (4.76%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) 802.1X
1 2 (9.52%) REST
1 2 (9.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Unix
2 7 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Windows
4 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) High Availability
1 6 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 4 (19.05%) Integration Testing
2 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
2 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
3 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 3 (14.29%) Fault Management
3 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 3 (14.29%) Network Design
3 3 (14.29%) Physics
3 3 (14.29%) Regression Testing
3 3 (14.29%) Requirements Engineering
3 3 (14.29%) Requirements Management
3 3 (14.29%) Service Management
3 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (14.29%) Synthetic Environment
3 3 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Change Management
4 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) C
3 3 (14.29%) Lua
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) CCNP
1 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (9.52%) CCIE
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) BC Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) CCDA
5 1 (4.76%) CCDP
5 1 (4.76%) CCIP
5 1 (4.76%) CCNA
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) NCSC
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) CASB
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (4.76%) Iperf
3 1 (4.76%) Nmap
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Cisco
2 8 (38.10%) Fortinet
3 7 (33.33%) Juniper
4 6 (28.57%) BT
4 6 (28.57%) Ericsson
4 6 (28.57%) Huawei
4 6 (28.57%) Nokia
5 4 (19.05%) Arista
5 4 (19.05%) F5
5 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (19.05%) VMware
6 3 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 3 (14.29%) IBM
6 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
6 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
7 2 (9.52%) Aruba
7 2 (9.52%) HP
8 1 (4.76%) NetScout
8 1 (4.76%) Tufin
8 1 (4.76%) Zscaler