tcpdump Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring tcpdump skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited tcpdump 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 331 397 448
Rank change year-on-year +66 +51 +51
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 5 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.010% 0.058%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.25% 0.058% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £488 £405
25th Percentile - £498 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £519 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +15.28% -
75th Percentile - £536 £491
90th Percentile - £544 £500
UK median daily rate £475 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -6.86% -5.12% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
UK median hourly rate - - £60.55

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,965 3,454 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.39% 16.63% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,982 2,287
10th Percentile £200 £204 £207
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 358 328
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.48 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for tcpdump in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for tcpdump in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing tcpdump in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for tcpdump in the UK excluding London

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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 tcpdump 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
South East - 4 £475 - 2
North of England - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 1
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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) FTP
1 4 (80.00%) SMTP
1 4 (80.00%) Telnet
2 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Server Migrations
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) NFS
1 4 (80.00%) Samba
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) yum
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Nessus
3 1 (20.00%) OpenVAS
3 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (20.00%) Carbon Black
3 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (20.00%) Qualys
3 1 (20.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk