Wireshark Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Wireshark
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 150 86 143
Rank change year-on-year -64 +57 +1
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 5 19 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.17% 1.24% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.26% 6.96% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £414 £360 -
25th Percentile £425 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £300
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% +50.00% -41.46%
75th Percentile £500 - £325
90th Percentile £523 - -
South East median daily rate £492 £450 £300
% change year-on-year +9.33% +50.00% -41.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 397 273 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.80% 17.85% 23.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 134 313
10th Percentile £258 £247 £205
25th Percentile £378 £382 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £584 £584
90th Percentile £640 £638 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% +4.11% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 53
10th Percentile £16.01 - £18.00
25th Percentile £19.34 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £31.94 £14.20 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.93% -78.15% -1.52%
75th Percentile £53.81 £22.09 £85.65
90th Percentile £72.80 £31.44 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £48.11 £54.94 £57.35
% change year-on-year -12.43% -4.21% +27.44%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Wireshark
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Wireshark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Wireshark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 April 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
Berkshire -46 4 £471 +4.67% 6
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 -
Wireshark
South East

Wireshark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) BGP
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) MPLS
1 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) 5G
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) IPv6
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) tcpdump
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (20.00%) IOS XR
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (20.00%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Core Network Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Core Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IP Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IP Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Kali Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (40.00%) OWASP
1 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Red Team
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) SOAR
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) CEH
3 2 (40.00%) GPEN
3 2 (40.00%) OSCP
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) CCDA
4 1 (20.00%) CCDP
4 1 (20.00%) CCIE
4 1 (20.00%) CCIP
4 1 (20.00%) CCNA
4 1 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Nmap
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) CASB
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (40.00%) Aruba
2 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Arista
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) NetScout
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Zscaler