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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 474 535
Rank change year-on-year -10 +61 +77
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 107 76 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.68% 1.77% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 42 33
10th Percentile £321 £416 £332
25th Percentile £411 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £492 £600 £575
90th Percentile £588 £698 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.00 -

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 3,990 4,295 5,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 12.77% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,611 2,528 3,692
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £602
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £473 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 141 333
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.46 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -37.94% +50.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.30 £70.00 £75.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +21.43% -38.04% +38.45%

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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 27 December 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 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 27 December 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 -7 99 £450 -14.29% 97
UK excluding London -35 63 £440 -2.22% 99
London -1 31 £450 -25.00% 10
North of England -34 28 £443 -21.33% 18
Work from Home -1 27 £449 -20.27% 82
Midlands -21 27 £475 - 24
West Midlands - 27 £475 - 16
North West -8 22 £475 - 11
South East -8 15 £419 -6.81% 29
South West -19 6 £450 - 6
Yorkshire -46 6 £435 -22.67% 7
Wales - 1 £250 - 5

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 4 (3.74%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.10%) AWS
2 23 (21.50%) GCP
3 20 (18.69%) Akamai
4 11 (10.28%) Azure
5 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.87%) SaaS
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 38 (35.51%) Firewall
2 33 (30.84%) DNS
2 33 (30.84%) TCP/IP
3 29 (27.10%) HTTP
4 28 (26.17%) SSL
5 23 (21.50%) BIG-IP
6 17 (15.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (15.89%) OSPF
7 15 (14.02%) BGP
8 14 (13.08%) 3GPP
8 14 (13.08%) 4G
8 14 (13.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 14 (13.08%) Radio Access Network
9 13 (12.15%) VPN
10 11 (10.28%) tcpdump
10 11 (10.28%) VLAN
11 10 (9.35%) LTE
12 9 (8.41%) WAN
13 8 (7.48%) Ethernet
13 8 (7.48%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (23.36%) Fiddler
2 9 (8.41%) Metasploit
3 8 (7.48%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.93%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) Postman
4 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.17%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (14.95%) Banking
3 16 (14.95%) Telecoms
4 15 (14.02%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.67%) Front Office
6 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.74%) Finance
6 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (36.45%) Network Engineer
2 16 (14.95%) Web Engineer
3 11 (10.28%) Tester
4 10 (9.35%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 10 (9.35%) IP Network Engineer
4 10 (9.35%) Network Design Specialist
4 10 (9.35%) Network Specialist
4 10 (9.35%) Performance Specialist
5 9 (8.41%) Junior
5 9 (8.41%) Junior Network Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Penetration Tester
6 8 (7.48%) Senior
7 7 (6.54%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Architect
8 6 (5.61%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Technical Support
8 6 (5.61%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) SAML
2 6 (5.61%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (5.61%) Middleware
3 5 (4.67%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (3.74%) REST
4 4 (3.74%) SOAP
5 3 (2.80%) LDAP
6 2 (1.87%) HTML
6 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.87%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Security Posture
2 14 (13.08%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.48%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (6.54%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.54%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.87%) Digital Currency
5 2 (1.87%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.87%) SCADA
5 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) IoT
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.69%) Linux
2 8 (7.48%) Kali Linux
2 8 (7.48%) Windows
3 4 (3.74%) Unix
4 3 (2.80%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.87%) CatOS
5 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (31.78%) Test Automation
2 25 (23.36%) Ethical Hacking
2 25 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (18.69%) Load Balancing
4 18 (16.82%) OWASP
5 17 (15.89%) Application Security
5 17 (15.89%) DevSecOps
6 16 (14.95%) CI/CD
6 16 (14.95%) Data Loss Prevention
6 16 (14.95%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 15 (14.02%) High Availability
8 12 (11.21%) Security Testing
9 11 (10.28%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (9.35%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 10 (9.35%) Network Design
11 9 (8.41%) Reverse Engineering
12 8 (7.48%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.48%) Data Protection
12 8 (7.48%) Penetration Testing
12 8 (7.48%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 38 (35.51%) Python
2 26 (24.30%) Bash
3 17 (15.89%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.74%) Java
5 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.48%) CEH
2 8 (7.48%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (7.48%) GPEN
2 8 (7.48%) OSCP
3 7 (6.54%) CCNP
3 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.74%) CCNA
5 3 (2.80%) CCIE
5 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) CISM
6 1 (0.93%) CISSP
6 1 (0.93%) Degree
6 1 (0.93%) GCFA
6 1 (0.93%) GCFE
6 1 (0.93%) GREM
6 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) NIST
2 2 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.87%) GDPR
2 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) JTAG
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.93%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (10.28%) Firmware
3 9 (8.41%) VMware NSX
4 7 (6.54%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (19.63%) Ansible
2 16 (14.95%) CSIRT
3 12 (11.21%) Nmap
4 6 (5.61%) Grafana
4 6 (5.61%) ITRS Geneos
4 6 (5.61%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.61%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.80%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.80%) Iperf
6 2 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.87%) Nagios
6 2 (1.87%) Terraform
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.93%) FTK
7 1 (0.93%) Nessus
Vendors
1 45 (42.06%) F5
2 22 (20.56%) Splunk
3 21 (19.63%) Cisco
4 20 (18.69%) Blue Coat
4 20 (18.69%) McAfee
5 19 (17.76%) VMware
6 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
6 14 (13.08%) NetApp
6 14 (13.08%) Nokia
7 11 (10.28%) SolarWinds
8 10 (9.35%) Actix
8 10 (9.35%) Ericsson
9 8 (7.48%) CheckPoint
9 8 (7.48%) Fortinet
9 8 (7.48%) Juniper
10 7 (6.54%) Meraki
10 7 (6.54%) Palo Alto
11 6 (5.61%) Solace
12 5 (4.67%) TIBCO
12 5 (4.67%) Zscaler