Network Packet Capture Contracts

Network Packet Capture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 - 712
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Packet Capture 17 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% - 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £575 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £500
75th Percentile £627 - £525
90th Percentile £642 - -
UK excluding London 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 excluding London median hourly rate £81.35 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Network Packet Capture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Packet Capture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Packet Capture in the UK

Network Packet Capture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Packet Capture.

Daily rate trend for Network Packet Capture in the UK

Network Packet Capture
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England - 14 £600 - 1
UK excluding London - 12 £600 -
East of England - 11 £600 -
Work from Home - 3 £627 -
London - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £662 -
West Midlands - 1 £662 -

Network Packet Capture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (64.71%) DNS
1 11 (64.71%) FTP
1 11 (64.71%) HTTP
1 11 (64.71%) Network Security
1 11 (64.71%) SMTP
1 11 (64.71%) SSL
2 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 6 (35.29%) NX-OS
General
1 10 (58.82%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.88%) Aviation
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Analyst
2 9 (52.94%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Network Design Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) SOC Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (58.82%) Cyberattack
2 8 (47.06%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (41.18%) Management Information System
3 7 (41.18%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
4 6 (35.29%) CSOC
4 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.88%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (58.82%) Threat Detection
2 9 (52.94%) Information Security
3 8 (47.06%) Information Management
4 7 (41.18%) Analytics
4 7 (41.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (41.18%) Behavioural Analytics
4 7 (41.18%) Machine Learning
4 7 (41.18%) SIEM
5 6 (35.29%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (35.29%) Password Management
5 6 (35.29%) Security Operations
6 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (47.06%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (35.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Broadcom
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco
1 6 (35.29%) VMware
2 1 (5.88%) Twitter