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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 441 519
Rank change year-on-year -116 +78 +73
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 80 83 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.75% 2.22% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 43 37
10th Percentile £263 £358 £306
25th Percentile £335 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £613
90th Percentile £650 £600 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £450 £515
% change year-on-year -8.33% -12.62% +28.75%

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 4,568 3,736 5,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.59% 12.74% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,839 2,302 3,306
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -1.52% -4.81%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 174 420
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.22 £16.72
Median hourly rate £40.54 £36.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.85% -8.57% +112.54%
75th Percentile £65.97 £58.39 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £24.71 £45.88
% change year-on-year +97.17% -46.14% +148.00%

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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 6 May 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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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 6 May 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 -92 73 £418 -9.73% 32
UK excluding London -73 65 £413 -8.33% 28
North of England -24 37 £420 - 3
North West -11 32 £420 - 2
West Midlands -29 28 £320 +120.69% 3
Midlands -43 28 £320 +120.69% 3
Work from Home -35 13 £438 -16.67% 15
South East -61 13 £450 - 8
South West -35 6 £450 +32.35% 8
London -71 6 £438 -16.67% 5
Yorkshire - 5 £413 - 1
Wales - 1 £250 -

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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 4 (5.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) Azure
2 5 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (2.50%) GCP
3 2 (2.50%) IBM Watson
3 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.25%) IaaS
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.25%) PaaS
4 1 (1.25%) Route 53
4 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (50.00%) DNS
2 39 (48.75%) HTTP
3 37 (46.25%) BIG-IP
3 37 (46.25%) SSL
4 33 (41.25%) TCP/IP
5 24 (30.00%) Firewall
6 23 (28.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 23 (28.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 19 (23.75%) WAN
8 18 (22.50%) VPN
9 16 (20.00%) LAN
10 15 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
10 15 (18.75%) MPLS
10 15 (18.75%) Wireless
11 14 (17.50%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (16.25%) BGP
12 13 (16.25%) IPsec
12 13 (16.25%) OSPF
13 12 (15.00%) 5G
14 10 (12.50%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Power BI
1 2 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (35.00%) Fiddler
2 4 (5.00%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
General
1 22 (27.50%) Banking
2 21 (26.25%) Investment Banking
3 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (8.75%) Telecoms
7 6 (7.50%) Aviation
7 6 (7.50%) Finance
8 4 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (5.00%) Police
9 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.25%) Law
10 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (65.00%) Network Engineer
2 28 (35.00%) Web Engineer
3 22 (27.50%) IP Network Engineer
4 19 (23.75%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Junior
6 9 (11.25%) Junior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Core Network Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) IP Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Security Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Design Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) IP Design Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Voice Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Voice Network Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Analyst
10 2 (2.50%) Support Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) LDAP
1 9 (11.25%) SAML
2 4 (5.00%) .NET
2 4 (5.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.75%) 802.1X
3 3 (3.75%) REST
4 2 (2.50%) Django
4 2 (2.50%) SOAP
5 1 (1.25%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.00%) Robotics
3 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) IoT
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.25%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Linux
2 6 (7.50%) Unix
3 5 (6.25%) Windows
4 4 (5.00%) CatOS
5 1 (1.25%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.75%) Load Balancing
2 29 (36.25%) Data Loss Prevention
3 28 (35.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (7.50%) Agile
5 6 (7.50%) High Availability
5 6 (7.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (7.50%) Validation
6 5 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 5 (6.25%) DevOps
6 5 (6.25%) Network Design
6 5 (6.25%) Runbook
6 5 (6.25%) Zero Trust
7 4 (5.00%) AI
7 4 (5.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (5.00%) Multithreading
7 4 (5.00%) Service Delivery
7 4 (5.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) Python
2 7 (8.75%) Bash
2 7 (8.75%) SQL
3 4 (5.00%) C#
4 2 (2.50%) C
4 2 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (11.25%) CCNP
2 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.25%) CCNA
5 4 (5.00%) CCIE
5 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.00%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) BC Cleared
6 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.25%) CCDA
7 1 (1.25%) CCDP
7 1 (1.25%) CCIP
7 1 (1.25%) CISM
7 1 (1.25%) CISSP
7 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) SLA
2 3 (3.75%) NCSC
2 3 (3.75%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) GRC
4 1 (1.25%) JTAG
4 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (26.25%) Firmware
3 20 (25.00%) VMware NSX
4 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 5 (6.25%) Docker
6 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.25%) KVM
6 1 (1.25%) Snort
Systems Management
1 18 (22.50%) Ansible
2 9 (11.25%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.00%) Nmap
5 3 (3.75%) Terraform
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (2.50%) Iperf
7 1 (1.25%) CASB
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.25%) FTK
7 1 (1.25%) Suricata
Vendors
1 43 (53.75%) F5
2 42 (52.50%) VMware
3 31 (38.75%) Cisco
4 29 (36.25%) McAfee
5 28 (35.00%) Blue Coat
6 19 (23.75%) NetApp
6 19 (23.75%) Palo Alto
7 17 (21.25%) CheckPoint
8 10 (12.50%) Fortinet
8 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 8 (10.00%) SolarWinds
10 7 (8.75%) Juniper
10 7 (8.75%) Meraki
11 6 (7.50%) Arista
12 5 (6.25%) NetScout
13 4 (5.00%) BT
13 4 (5.00%) Ericsson
13 4 (5.00%) Huawei
13 4 (5.00%) Nokia
13 4 (5.00%) Tufin