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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 168 191
Rank change year-on-year +26 +23 +52
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 20 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.57% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.31% 1.65% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 7
10th Percentile £204 £453 £365
25th Percentile £228 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £544 £575
90th Percentile £605 £556 £600
England median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -17.39%

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 604 848 1,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.32% 18.34% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 459 653
10th Percentile £204 £245 £207
25th Percentile £329 £400 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +8.70% -0.27%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £588
90th Percentile £638 £672 £675
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 83 72
10th Percentile £15.22 £27.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £31.58 £53.40 £32.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -5.98% +35.56%
75th Percentile £70.87 £71.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.24 £77.90
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Wireshark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the South East

Wireshark
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +15 13 £450 -9.55% 8
Berkshire +13 13 £450 -9.55% 7
Surrey - 4 £208 -
Hampshire - 3 £650 - 4
Wireshark
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (65.00%) MPLS
1 13 (65.00%) VPN
2 10 (50.00%) ATM
2 10 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 10 (50.00%) Frame Relay
2 10 (50.00%) GPRS
2 10 (50.00%) GSM
2 10 (50.00%) LAN
2 10 (50.00%) LTE
2 10 (50.00%) SAN
2 10 (50.00%) SDH
2 10 (50.00%) UMTS
2 10 (50.00%) WAN
3 5 (25.00%) HTTP
4 4 (20.00%) FTP
5 3 (15.00%) BGP
5 3 (15.00%) Firewall
5 3 (15.00%) OSPF
5 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (15.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Fiddler
General
1 18 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (70.00%) Telecoms
3 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) IP Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Support
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Tester
6 2 (10.00%) Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Network Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Network Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Tester
6 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) REST
1 4 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Unix
2 10 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (50.00%) Fault Management
2 10 (50.00%) Project Management
2 10 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 10 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Escalation Management
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (20.00%) OO
3 4 (20.00%) OOP
3 4 (20.00%) Validation
4 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (10.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Test Planning
6 1 (5.00%) Customer Experience
6 1 (5.00%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (5.00%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) CCNP
1 12 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (50.00%) ISEB
2 10 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 10 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) CCIE
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
1 3 (15.00%) Iperf
1 3 (15.00%) Nmap
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Cisco
2 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (50.00%) Juniper
4 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds