Network Packet Capture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Packet Capture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Network Packet Capture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Packet Capture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 - 461
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Packet Capture 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% - 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £556 - -
25th Percentile £575 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £500
75th Percentile £634 - £525
90th Percentile £650 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £82.94 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.35 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Network Packet Capture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Network Packet Capture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Network Packet Capture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Packet Capture in the UK excluding London

Network Packet Capture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Packet Capture in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Network Packet Capture in the UK excluding London

Network Packet Capture
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Packet Capture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East of England - 11 £600 -
Midlands - 1 £662 -
West Midlands - 1 £662 -
Network Packet Capture
UK

Network Packet Capture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) DNS
1 11 (91.67%) FTP
1 11 (91.67%) HTTP
1 11 (91.67%) Network Security
1 11 (91.67%) SMTP
1 11 (91.67%) SSL
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) NX-OS
General
1 10 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (8.33%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Analyst
2 9 (75.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (83.33%) Cyberattack
2 8 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (58.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (58.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (50.00%) CSOC
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (8.33%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (83.33%) Threat Detection
2 9 (75.00%) Information Security
3 8 (66.67%) Information Management
4 7 (58.33%) Analytics
4 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (58.33%) Behavioural Analytics
4 7 (58.33%) Machine Learning
4 7 (58.33%) SIEM
5 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
6 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
7 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (8.33%) Password Management
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Broadcom
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco
1 1 (8.33%) Twitter
1 1 (8.33%) VMware