tcpdump Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

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East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring tcpdump skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 0.96% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £366 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
75th Percentile £367 - -
90th Percentile £367 - -
East of England median daily rate £367 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Suffolk

tcpdump 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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 11 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 29.81% 18.03% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 6 11
10th Percentile £303 £201 £185
25th Percentile £368 £234 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £220
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +36.36% -51.11%
75th Percentile £531 £431 -
90th Percentile £538 £503 £230
East of England median daily rate £495 £523 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +30.63% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - £45.22
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £48.56
75th Percentile £18.22 - £52.83
90th Percentile - - £53.38
East of England median hourly rate £61.76 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.41% +23.00% -23.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

tcpdump job vacancy trend in Suffolk

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Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing tcpdump within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Ipswich - 2 £367 - 3
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) RTP
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) INAP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Locust
2 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (50.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) QA Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MOS
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (50.00%) Metaswitch