Wireshark Contract Job Trends

Wireshark
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Wireshark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 470 491
Rank change year-on-year -115 +21 +83
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 75 85 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.49% 2.18% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 45 31
10th Percentile £391 £412 £350
25th Percentile £419 £447 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.49%
75th Percentile £531 £488 £550
90th Percentile £632 £560 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -4.44% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £48.75 - £21.28
25th Percentile £52.50 - £25.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £33.25
75th Percentile £67.50 - £41.44
90th Percentile £71.25 - £45.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - £33.25
% change year-on-year - - -55.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Wireshark 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 5,020 3,900 4,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.41% 11.84% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,973 2,384 2,884
10th Percentile £250 £250 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 200 319
10th Percentile £15.19 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £46.88 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% -4.34% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.10 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £45.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -41.91% -18.00% -2.86%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wireshark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Wireshark job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wireshark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wireshark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wireshark

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Wireshark in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the UK over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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 -100 72 £450 - 48
UK excluding London -100 54 £430 -4.44% 23
North of England -44 28 £420 -4.00%
North West -27 22 £420 -5.03%
West Midlands -36 20 £356 -25.00% 7
Midlands -46 20 £356 -25.00% 7
South East -61 17 £430 -4.44% 7
London -89 15 £450 -10.00% 29
Work from Home -58 10 £444 -11.25% 10
South West -41 6 £450 - 4
Yorkshire -40 5 - -
North East - 1 - -

Wireshark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.00%) Azure
2 3 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.67%) AWS
3 2 (2.67%) IBM Watson
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.67%) OneDrive
3 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.67%) SaaS
4 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) DNS
2 23 (30.67%) TCP/IP
3 22 (29.33%) 5G
4 21 (28.00%) LTE
4 21 (28.00%) SSL
5 20 (26.67%) HTTP
6 19 (25.33%) BIG-IP
6 19 (25.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 19 (25.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (24.00%) MPLS
8 17 (22.67%) Firewall
8 17 (22.67%) WAN
9 16 (21.33%) BGP
9 16 (21.33%) Radio Access Network
10 14 (18.67%) OSPF
11 12 (16.00%) 3GPP
11 12 (16.00%) Cisco Nexus
11 12 (16.00%) LAN
11 12 (16.00%) VPN
12 11 (14.67%) Diameter Protocol
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.67%) Power BI
1 2 (2.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (24.00%) Fiddler
2 7 (9.33%) Git
2 7 (9.33%) TeamCity
3 4 (5.33%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (2.67%) JIRA
4 2 (2.67%) MSI
4 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (24.00%) Banking
1 18 (24.00%) Investment Banking
2 16 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.67%) Aviation
4 5 (6.67%) Fire and Rescue
4 5 (6.67%) Police
5 4 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Finance
6 3 (4.00%) Military
7 2 (2.67%) Legal
7 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Law
8 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 19 (25.33%) IP Network Engineer
3 16 (21.33%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 16 (21.33%) Web Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) IP Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) RAN Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Senior
6 4 (5.33%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Core Network Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Design Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) IP Design Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Telecoms Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Network Architect
8 2 (2.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Voice Design Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.00%) .NET
2 6 (8.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (5.33%) SAML
4 3 (4.00%) LDAP
4 3 (4.00%) REST
5 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.67%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.33%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.67%) Robotics
3 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.67%) PKI
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.33%) Linux
2 6 (8.00%) Unix
3 3 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.67%) Load Balancing
2 16 (21.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 16 (21.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 12 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (14.67%) High Availability
5 10 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 9 (12.00%) Agile
6 9 (12.00%) Network Design
6 9 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (10.67%) Computer Science
7 8 (10.67%) DevOps
8 7 (9.33%) BDD
8 7 (9.33%) Multithreading
8 7 (9.33%) Software Engineering
8 7 (9.33%) TDD
8 7 (9.33%) Zero Trust
9 6 (8.00%) AI
9 6 (8.00%) Change Management
9 6 (8.00%) Customer Experience
9 6 (8.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.67%) Python
2 10 (13.33%) SQL
3 7 (9.33%) C#
4 6 (8.00%) C
5 5 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.00%) Java
6 3 (4.00%) Lua
7 2 (2.67%) Bash
7 2 (2.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (13.33%) Degree
3 9 (12.00%) CCNP
4 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.33%) CCNA
7 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.33%) CCIE
7 1 (1.33%) GCIA
7 1 (1.33%) GCIH
7 1 (1.33%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) SLA
2 3 (4.00%) NIST
3 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.67%) GDPR
3 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 26 (34.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (25.33%) Firmware
3 10 (13.33%) Docker
4 3 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.67%) KVM
6 1 (1.33%) Snort
6 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.67%) Ansible
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.67%) Suricata
4 1 (1.33%) QRadar
4 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (37.33%) F5
1 28 (37.33%) VMware
2 25 (33.33%) Cisco
3 16 (21.33%) Blue Coat
3 16 (21.33%) McAfee
3 16 (21.33%) NetApp
4 12 (16.00%) Ericsson
4 12 (16.00%) Juniper
4 12 (16.00%) Nokia
5 11 (14.67%) Fortinet
5 11 (14.67%) Palo Alto
6 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
7 6 (8.00%) BT
7 6 (8.00%) CheckPoint
7 6 (8.00%) Huawei
8 5 (6.67%) Arista
8 5 (6.67%) IBM
8 5 (6.67%) NetScout
8 5 (6.67%) SolarWinds
9 3 (4.00%) HP