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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 457 526
Rank change year-on-year -20 +69 +76
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 108 77 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.74% 1.89% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 39 37
10th Percentile £285 £443 £346
25th Percentile £406 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £494 £675 £638
90th Percentile £588 £705 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -7.37% +18.75% -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 3,947 4,069 6,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.42% 12.90% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,588 2,365 3,676
10th Percentile £204 £213 £206
25th Percentile £355 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -3.88%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 140 383
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.16 £16.55
25th Percentile £18.97 £21.46 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.75 £52.21
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -35.35% +152.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £74.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £31.79 £56.49
% change year-on-year +27.52% -43.72% +197.32%

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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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -28 100 £450 -14.29% 41
UK excluding London -43 67 £440 -7.37% 39
North of England -35 32 £490 -14.78% 9
Midlands -18 30 £440 - 10
West Midlands - 30 £440 - 10
North West -8 28 £490 - 4
Work from Home -13 27 £449 -26.78% 19
London -14 27 £450 -25.00% 6
South East -16 16 £425 -29.17% 15
South West -28 4 £375 -16.67%
Yorkshire -50 4 £505 -12.22% 3
Wales - 1 £250 - 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 4 (3.70%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (26.85%) AWS
2 23 (21.30%) GCP
3 18 (16.67%) Akamai
4 10 (9.26%) Azure
5 3 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.85%) IBM Watson
6 2 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.85%) SaaS
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 39 (36.11%) DNS
2 38 (35.19%) Firewall
3 37 (34.26%) HTTP
3 37 (34.26%) TCP/IP
4 35 (32.41%) SSL
5 31 (28.70%) BIG-IP
6 17 (15.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 17 (15.74%) VPN
7 16 (14.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 15 (13.89%) OSPF
9 13 (12.04%) BGP
9 13 (12.04%) WAN
10 12 (11.11%) 3GPP
10 12 (11.11%) 4G
10 12 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (10.19%) IPsec
11 11 (10.19%) VLAN
12 10 (9.26%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (9.26%) LAN
13 9 (8.33%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (26.85%) Fiddler
2 10 (9.26%) Metasploit
3 9 (8.33%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 29 (26.85%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.74%) Banking
4 16 (14.81%) Investment Banking
5 14 (12.96%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.63%) Finance
7 4 (3.70%) Front Office
7 4 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 45 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 21 (19.44%) Web Engineer
3 13 (12.04%) Junior
4 12 (11.11%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 12 (11.11%) IP Network Engineer
4 12 (11.11%) Junior Network Engineer
4 12 (11.11%) Tester
5 9 (8.33%) Penetration Tester
6 8 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Network Design Specialist
6 8 (7.41%) Network Specialist
6 8 (7.41%) Performance Specialist
7 6 (5.56%) Architect
7 6 (5.56%) Senior
7 6 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Technical Support
7 6 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Analyst
8 5 (4.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.33%) SAML
2 6 (5.56%) LDAP
3 4 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (3.70%) Middleware
3 4 (3.70%) REST
3 4 (3.70%) SOAP
3 4 (3.70%) Ultra Messaging
4 2 (1.85%) Django
4 2 (1.85%) HTML
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.81%) Management Information System
1 16 (14.81%) Security Posture
2 7 (6.48%) Operational Technology
3 6 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.85%) Digital Currency
5 2 (1.85%) SCADA
5 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) IoT
6 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.59%) Linux
2 9 (8.33%) Kali Linux
3 7 (6.48%) Windows
4 4 (3.70%) CatOS
4 4 (3.70%) Unix
5 2 (1.85%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.56%) Test Automation
2 26 (24.07%) Ethical Hacking
3 25 (23.15%) Load Balancing
4 23 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (19.44%) Data Loss Prevention
5 21 (19.44%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 19 (17.59%) OWASP
7 17 (15.74%) Application Security
7 17 (15.74%) DevSecOps
8 15 (13.89%) CI/CD
9 12 (11.11%) Security Testing
10 11 (10.19%) High Availability
10 11 (10.19%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 10 (9.26%) Network Design
12 9 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
12 9 (8.33%) Red Team
12 9 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
12 9 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (7.41%) Continuous Deployment
13 8 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 40 (37.04%) Python
2 23 (21.30%) Bash
3 16 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.70%) Java
5 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.33%) CEH
2 9 (8.33%) GPEN
2 9 (8.33%) OSCP
3 8 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.48%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.56%) CCNP
6 4 (3.70%) CCNA
7 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.85%) CCIE
9 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.93%) CISM
9 1 (0.93%) CISSP
9 1 (0.93%) GCFA
9 1 (0.93%) GCFE
9 1 (0.93%) GREM
9 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) NIST
2 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.85%) GDPR
2 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) JTAG
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (15.74%) VMware NSX
3 13 (12.04%) Firmware
4 9 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (22.22%) Ansible
2 16 (14.81%) CSIRT
3 13 (12.04%) Nmap
4 9 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.70%) Grafana
5 4 (3.70%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.78%) Iperf
7 2 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.85%) Nagios
7 2 (1.85%) Terraform
8 1 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.93%) FTK
8 1 (0.93%) Nessus
Vendors
1 50 (46.30%) F5
2 29 (26.85%) VMware
3 25 (23.15%) Blue Coat
3 25 (23.15%) McAfee
4 23 (21.30%) Splunk
5 21 (19.44%) Cisco
6 16 (14.81%) NetApp
7 15 (13.89%) Microsoft
8 11 (10.19%) CheckPoint
9 10 (9.26%) Nokia
9 10 (9.26%) Palo Alto
10 9 (8.33%) SolarWinds
11 8 (7.41%) Actix
11 8 (7.41%) Ericsson
12 5 (4.63%) Fortinet
12 5 (4.63%) Meraki
13 4 (3.70%) Dell
13 4 (3.70%) Juniper
13 4 (3.70%) TIBCO
13 4 (3.70%) Zscaler