tcpdump
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for tcpdump skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited tcpdump over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 685 813
Rank change year-on-year +102 +128 -153
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 15 34 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.057% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% 0.46% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 30
10th Percentile £350 £400 £390
25th Percentile £441 £470 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% +19.44% +2.86%
75th Percentile £547 £637 £588
90th Percentile £563 £650 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +15.28% - +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.55 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.55 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

tcpdump is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing tcpdump as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for tcpdump in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing tcpdump.

Daily rate trend for tcpdump in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing tcpdump over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for tcpdump in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing tcpdump.

Hourly rate trend for tcpdump in the UK

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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 tcpdump within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +130 8 £510 +10.27% 1
England +106 8 £513 -4.65% 7
London +88 6 £469 -15.73% 3
UK excluding London +53 2 £519 +15.28% 4
Midlands - 1 £550 -
South West - 1 £488 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Confluence
1 4 (26.67%) MQSeries
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) Wireshark
2 11 (73.33%) Firewall
2 11 (73.33%) TCP/IP
3 7 (46.67%) IPsec
3 7 (46.67%) Network Security
3 7 (46.67%) VPN
4 5 (33.33%) FTP
4 5 (33.33%) HTTP
5 4 (26.67%) HTTPS
5 4 (26.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (26.67%) SSL
6 3 (20.00%) DHCP
6 3 (20.00%) DNS
7 2 (13.33%) LAN
7 2 (13.33%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (13.33%) SNMP
7 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Hive
1 4 (26.67%) Hadoop
1 4 (26.67%) Tableau
2 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) French Language
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Unix Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Citrix Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Citrix Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Incident Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) LDAP
2 4 (26.67%) OLE
3 2 (13.33%) NETCONF
4 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.67%) LAMP
4 1 (6.67%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (6.67%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (26.67%) YARA
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) Shadow IT
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Unix
3 5 (33.33%) Windows
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 5 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (33.33%) SIEM
2 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
2 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
2 4 (26.67%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (26.67%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (26.67%) Reverse Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
2 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
2 4 (26.67%) Use Case
2 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CCNA
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) CCSP
3 1 (6.67%) CEH
3 1 (6.67%) CHFI
3 1 (6.67%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) EnCE
3 1 (6.67%) GCED
3 1 (6.67%) GCFA
3 1 (6.67%) GCIA
3 1 (6.67%) GCIH
3 1 (6.67%) GIAC
3 1 (6.67%) GPEN
3 1 (6.67%) GSNA
3 1 (6.67%) GWAPT
3 1 (6.67%) OSCE
3 1 (6.67%) OSCP
3 1 (6.67%) OSWP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
1 4 (26.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (26.67%) Samba
1 4 (26.67%) Snort
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kibana
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Nmap
3 2 (13.33%) OpenNMS
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (6.67%) CSIRT
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
1 4 (26.67%) Google
1 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (26.67%) Splunk
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (13.33%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft