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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 491 542
Rank change year-on-year +25 +51 +74
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 113 73 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.80% 1.65% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 41 36
10th Percentile £398 £400 £355
25th Percentile £420 £450 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -11.36%
75th Percentile £492 £588 £600
90th Percentile £578 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £460 £425
% change year-on-year -2.83% +8.24% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £33.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £33.25 -

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 4,034 4,418 6,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.24% 12.11% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,600 2,555 4,046
10th Percentile £206 £225 £213
25th Percentile £357 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £684 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 170 343
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.80 £24.18 £22.88
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% -20.21% +28.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -12.48% -14.04% +25.53%

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

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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Top 13 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 21 November 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 +27 106 £450 -14.29% 49
UK excluding London -13 69 £447 -2.83% 36
London +5 33 £475 -19.15% 19
Work from Home +3 32 £447 -12.78% 14
West Midlands +4 29 £485 - 3
Midlands -10 29 £485 - 3
North of England -33 25 £442 -21.38% 6
North West -9 19 £447 - 3
South East +10 16 £419 -15.70% 21
South West -10 8 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -44 6 £435 -22.67% 3
Wales - 1 £250 -
Channel Islands - 1 £440 -

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 9 (7.96%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (28.32%) AWS
2 24 (21.24%) Akamai
3 22 (19.47%) GCP
4 10 (8.85%) Azure
5 4 (3.54%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.65%) SaaS
7 2 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (41.59%) Firewall
2 31 (27.43%) DNS
3 28 (24.78%) OSPF
4 26 (23.01%) BGP
4 26 (23.01%) TCP/IP
5 20 (17.70%) HTTP
6 19 (16.81%) 3GPP
6 19 (16.81%) 4G
6 19 (16.81%) Radio Access Network
7 18 (15.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (15.93%) SSL
7 18 (15.93%) VLAN
8 14 (12.39%) DHCP
9 13 (11.50%) BIG-IP
10 12 (10.62%) IPsec
10 12 (10.62%) MPLS
10 12 (10.62%) VPN
11 11 (9.73%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 10 (8.85%) LTE
12 10 (8.85%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (16.81%) Fiddler
2 9 (7.96%) Metasploit
3 8 (7.08%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.88%) JIRA
4 1 (0.88%) Postman
General
1 42 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.66%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.04%) Telecoms
4 13 (11.50%) Banking
5 12 (10.62%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.42%) Front Office
6 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.54%) Finance
8 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (33.63%) Network Engineer
2 11 (9.73%) Tester
3 10 (8.85%) Network Design Specialist
3 10 (8.85%) Network Specialist
3 10 (8.85%) Performance Specialist
4 9 (7.96%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (7.96%) Web Engineer
5 8 (7.08%) Analyst
5 8 (7.08%) Penetration Tester
5 8 (7.08%) Senior
5 8 (7.08%) Test Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Designer
6 7 (6.19%) IP Network Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Network Designer
6 7 (6.19%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Technical Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Technical Support
6 7 (6.19%) Technical Support Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (5.31%) Middleware
2 5 (4.42%) Ultra Messaging
3 4 (3.54%) REST
3 4 (3.54%) SAML
3 4 (3.54%) SOAP
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.65%) OAuth
5 2 (1.77%) HTML
6 1 (0.88%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.04%) Security Posture
2 12 (10.62%) Management Information System
3 11 (9.73%) Operational Technology
4 8 (7.08%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (6.19%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.65%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.77%) Digital Currency
8 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.77%) SCADA
8 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.88%) PKI
9 1 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.93%) Linux
2 8 (7.08%) Kali Linux
2 8 (7.08%) Windows
3 4 (3.54%) Unix
4 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.77%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.32%) Test Automation
2 26 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (22.12%) Ethical Hacking
4 21 (18.58%) High Availability
5 18 (15.93%) OWASP
6 17 (15.04%) Application Security
6 17 (15.04%) DevSecOps
7 16 (14.16%) CI/CD
8 13 (11.50%) Load Balancing
9 12 (10.62%) Network Segmentation
9 12 (10.62%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (9.73%) Network Design
10 11 (9.73%) Security Testing
11 9 (7.96%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (7.96%) Data Loss Prevention
11 9 (7.96%) Malware Detection/Protection
11 9 (7.96%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 9 (7.96%) Reverse Engineering
12 8 (7.08%) Continuous Deployment
12 8 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.32%) Python
2 23 (20.35%) Bash
3 19 (16.81%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.54%) Java
5 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.88%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.50%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.73%) CCNP
4 9 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.08%) CEH
5 8 (7.08%) GPEN
5 8 (7.08%) OSCP
6 7 (6.19%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.42%) CCIE
7 5 (4.42%) CCNA
8 3 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.88%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (0.88%) Degree
9 1 (0.88%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.88%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.65%) SLA
2 2 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.77%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) NIST
3 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (7.96%) Docker
2 7 (6.19%) Firmware
2 7 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (15.04%) Ansible
2 16 (14.16%) CSIRT
3 11 (9.73%) Nmap
4 7 (6.19%) FortiGate
5 6 (5.31%) Grafana
5 6 (5.31%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (5.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.65%) HP ALM
6 3 (2.65%) Iperf
6 3 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.77%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (1.77%) Nagios
7 2 (1.77%) OpenView
8 1 (0.88%) Nessus
8 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (35.40%) F5
2 25 (22.12%) Cisco
3 22 (19.47%) Splunk
4 18 (15.93%) SolarWinds
5 15 (13.27%) Juniper
6 14 (12.39%) Nokia
7 13 (11.50%) Blue Coat
7 13 (11.50%) Fortinet
7 13 (11.50%) McAfee
8 11 (9.73%) Microsoft
8 11 (9.73%) NetApp
9 10 (8.85%) Actix
9 10 (8.85%) Ericsson
10 9 (7.96%) Dell
10 9 (7.96%) VMware
11 6 (5.31%) Solace
12 5 (4.42%) Meraki
12 5 (4.42%) TIBCO
12 5 (4.42%) Zscaler
13 4 (3.54%) Palo Alto