Wireshark Contracts

Wireshark
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Wireshark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireshark 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 439 518 585
Rank change year-on-year +79 +67 +170
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 80 82 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.14% 1.45% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 38 75
10th Percentile £347 £307 £288
25th Percentile - £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £488 £606 £900
90th Percentile £600 £669 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £533 £400
% change year-on-year -15.49% +33.13% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £78.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.98%

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 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
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 £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the UK

Wireshark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in the UK

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireshark in the UK

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Top 8 Contract 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 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 +51 61 £475 -13.64% 46
London +40 29 £525 -4.55% 19
UK excluding London +33 29 £450 -15.49% 31
South East +56 22 £450 +50.00% 10
Work from Home +42 11 £525 +2.94% 36
South West +36 6 £340 -30.26% 2
Midlands +18 1 £145 -73.64% 7
West Midlands +12 1 £145 -73.64% 4

Wireshark
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 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.50%) AWS
2 8 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.25%) Datadog
4 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.25%) GCP
4 1 (1.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 35 (43.75%) LTE
2 28 (35.00%) 5G
3 26 (32.50%) 4G
3 26 (32.50%) Radio Access Network
4 25 (31.25%) Firewall
5 22 (27.50%) Diameter Protocol
5 22 (27.50%) VoLTE
6 21 (26.25%) WAN
7 20 (25.00%) 3G
7 20 (25.00%) RANAP
8 19 (23.75%) LAN
8 19 (23.75%) MPLS
9 18 (22.50%) Network Security
10 17 (21.25%) VPN
11 15 (18.75%) ATM
11 15 (18.75%) Ethernet
11 15 (18.75%) GPRS
11 15 (18.75%) GSM
11 15 (18.75%) SDH
11 15 (18.75%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) GitLab
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.25%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) JMeter
3 1 (1.25%) JProfiler
3 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.25%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.25%) Toad
General
1 54 (67.50%) Social Skills
2 24 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 20 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Finance
5 3 (3.75%) Banking
5 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.50%) Back Office
6 2 (2.50%) Front Office
6 2 (2.50%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 14 (17.50%) IP Engineer
2 14 (17.50%) Test Engineer
3 6 (7.50%) Analyst
3 6 (7.50%) Deployment Engineer
3 6 (7.50%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 6 (7.50%) Network Design Specialist
3 6 (7.50%) Network Specialist
3 6 (7.50%) Senior
4 4 (5.00%) Applications Support
4 4 (5.00%) IP Network Engineer
4 4 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 3 (3.75%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (3.75%) FIX Analyst
5 3 (3.75%) Linux Support
5 3 (3.75%) Network Architect
5 3 (3.75%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (3.75%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (3.75%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) 802.1X
2 5 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (5.00%) JSON
3 4 (5.00%) XML
4 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (8.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Eurex
3 3 (3.75%) Replication
4 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.50%) PKI
5 1 (1.25%) Bitcoin
5 1 (1.25%) Equities
5 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 23 (28.75%) Linux
2 17 (21.25%) Unix
3 3 (3.75%) CentOS
3 3 (3.75%) Windows
4 2 (2.50%) Rocky
5 1 (1.25%) Debian
5 1 (1.25%) Fedora
5 1 (1.25%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.25%) Solaris
5 1 (1.25%) SUSE
5 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.25%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (28.75%) Customer Experience
3 22 (27.50%) Network Architecture
4 20 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
4 20 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
5 18 (22.50%) Translating Business Requirements
6 17 (21.25%) Network Monitoring
7 15 (18.75%) Fault Management
7 15 (18.75%) Project Management
7 15 (18.75%) Regression Testing
7 15 (18.75%) Test Strategy
8 11 (13.75%) Network Design
9 10 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
10 8 (10.00%) Service Management
11 7 (8.75%) Computer Science
11 7 (8.75%) Process Improvement
12 5 (6.25%) Client Onboarding
12 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (6.25%) Load Balancing
13 4 (5.00%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.75%) Java
2 15 (18.75%) Python
3 7 (8.75%) SQL
4 5 (6.25%) Bash
5 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.75%) Perl
7 1 (1.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (33.75%) CCNP
1 27 (33.75%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (18.75%) ISEB
2 15 (18.75%) ISTQB
2 15 (18.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.75%) Degree
3 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) CCIE
5 2 (2.50%) CCNA
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) CCSA
6 1 (1.25%) CEH
6 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (3.75%) iptables
2 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (12.50%) Ansible
2 6 (7.50%) ZABBIX
3 5 (6.25%) Rundeck
3 5 (6.25%) Terraform
4 3 (3.75%) Cacti
4 3 (3.75%) Grafana
4 3 (3.75%) Nagios
4 3 (3.75%) Netcool
4 3 (3.75%) Proxmox
4 3 (3.75%) Puppet
5 2 (2.50%) Iperf
5 2 (2.50%) OPNET
6 1 (1.25%) CASB
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.25%) Nessus
6 1 (1.25%) Perfmon
6 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.25%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 34 (42.50%) Cisco
2 24 (30.00%) NetScout
3 23 (28.75%) Juniper
4 20 (25.00%) Empirix
5 19 (23.75%) Microsoft
6 11 (13.75%) F5
7 10 (12.50%) Palo Alto
8 9 (11.25%) Nokia
9 8 (10.00%) CheckPoint
9 8 (10.00%) SolarWinds
10 6 (7.50%) Ericsson
10 6 (7.50%) Splunk
11 5 (6.25%) Infoblox
11 5 (6.25%) Zscaler
12 4 (5.00%) Bloomberg
13 3 (3.75%) CQG
13 3 (3.75%) Oracle
13 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
13 3 (3.75%) Reuters
13 3 (3.75%) VMware