tcpdump Contracts

tcpdump
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 514 567 685
Rank change year-on-year +53 +118 +135
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 6 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.034% 0.055%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.27% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 17
10th Percentile - £350 £400
25th Percentile - £441 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -5.12% +19.44%
75th Percentile - £547 £614
90th Percentile - £563 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £519 £450
% change year-on-year -8.43% +15.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.55

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

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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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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 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
England +55 6 £475 -7.32% 12
UK excluding London +66 5 £475 -8.43% 4
South East - 4 £475 - 2
Work from Home +36 3 - - 2
London +33 1 - - 8
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 2

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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 (66.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) FTP
1 4 (66.67%) SMTP
1 4 (66.67%) Telnet
2 2 (33.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Server Migrations
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (16.67%) Offensive Security
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) NFS
1 4 (66.67%) Samba
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) yum
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) CASB
3 1 (16.67%) Nessus
3 1 (16.67%) OpenVAS
3 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
3 1 (16.67%) Carbon Black
3 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) Rapid7
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk