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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 513 573
Rank change year-on-year +53 +60 +154
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 88 72 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.23% 1.33% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 27 72
10th Percentile £420 £306 £263
25th Percentile - £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £488 £549 £603
90th Percentile £603 £588 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £470 £413
% change year-on-year -4.26% +13.94% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.67% +13.98%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £77.56
90th Percentile - - £77.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -36.67% +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 3,941 5,420 7,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.37% 12.52% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 3,193 4,688
10th Percentile £231 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 427 409
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 -
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -22.41%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.45 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.55 £47.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -33.59% +79.25% +17.78%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 6 July 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 11 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 6 July 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 +61 72 £475 -7.77% 146
UK excluding London +37 41 £450 -4.26% 79
London +52 30 £500 -4.76% 82
South East +48 20 £450 -4.26% 25
Work from Home +35 16 £500 +19.05% 69
Midlands +15 10 £335 -39.09% 11
West Midlands +11 10 £335 -39.09% 8
South West +29 5 £508 +12.78% 4
North West +8 5 £442 - 17
North of England 0 5 £442 -14.13% 23
Channel Islands - 1 £440 -

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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 5 (5.68%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.91%) AWS
2 8 (9.09%) Azure
3 6 (6.82%) Akamai
4 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.14%) Datadog
6 1 (1.14%) GCP
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (42.05%) Firewall
2 28 (31.82%) LTE
3 26 (29.55%) WAN
4 25 (28.41%) BGP
4 25 (28.41%) OSPF
5 23 (26.14%) LAN
5 23 (26.14%) Network Security
6 22 (25.00%) MPLS
7 21 (23.86%) 5G
8 19 (21.59%) 4G
8 19 (21.59%) Radio Access Network
8 19 (21.59%) VPN
9 16 (18.18%) Diameter Protocol
9 16 (18.18%) VoLTE
10 14 (15.91%) ATM
10 14 (15.91%) Ethernet
10 14 (15.91%) GPRS
10 14 (15.91%) RANAP
10 14 (15.91%) SDH
10 14 (15.91%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) GitLab
1 3 (3.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Fiddler
2 2 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) JMeter
3 1 (1.14%) JProfiler
3 1 (1.14%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.14%) Postman
3 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.14%) Toad
General
1 49 (55.68%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 19 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Finance
5 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.14%) Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 17 (19.32%) Test Engineer
3 13 (14.77%) IP Engineer
4 7 (7.95%) Designer
4 7 (7.95%) Network Designer
4 7 (7.95%) Security Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Network Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) IP Network Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Senior
8 3 (3.41%) Consultant
8 3 (3.41%) Juniper Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Network Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (2.27%) Architect
9 2 (2.27%) Network Consultant
9 2 (2.27%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.36%) 802.1X
2 4 (4.55%) JSON
2 4 (4.55%) XML
3 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.14%) Middleware
4 1 (1.14%) OAuth
4 1 (1.14%) SAML
4 1 (1.14%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (1.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (11.36%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.68%) Operational Technology
4 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.41%) Replication
6 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.27%) PKI
7 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.14%) MISP
7 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Linux
2 15 (17.05%) Unix
3 4 (4.55%) Windows
4 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.45%) Performance Analysis
3 17 (19.32%) Network Monitoring
4 16 (18.18%) Network Architecture
5 15 (17.05%) Customer Experience
6 14 (15.91%) Fault Management
6 14 (15.91%) Performance Improvement
6 14 (15.91%) Project Management
6 14 (15.91%) Regression Testing
6 14 (15.91%) Test Strategy
6 14 (15.91%) Translating Business Requirements
7 12 (13.64%) High Availability
8 9 (10.23%) Service Management
9 7 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (7.95%) Matrix Organization
10 6 (6.82%) Mentoring
10 6 (6.82%) Network Segmentation
11 5 (5.68%) End-to-End Testing
11 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (5.68%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.45%) Java
2 14 (15.91%) Python
3 7 (7.95%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.55%) SQL
5 3 (3.41%) Bash
6 1 (1.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (35.23%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (34.09%) CCNP
3 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
4 14 (15.91%) ISEB
4 14 (15.91%) ISTQB
4 14 (15.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.82%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.68%) Degree
8 4 (4.55%) CCIE
8 4 (4.55%) CCNA
8 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.14%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 1 (1.14%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.14%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) SLA
2 1 (1.14%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) Docker
2 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.41%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (3.41%) iptables
3 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Ansible
2 6 (6.82%) FortiGate
3 4 (4.55%) Grafana
3 4 (4.55%) HP ALM
4 3 (3.41%) Cacti
4 3 (3.41%) Nagios
4 3 (3.41%) Netcool
4 3 (3.41%) Proxmox
4 3 (3.41%) Puppet
4 3 (3.41%) Terraform
4 3 (3.41%) ZABBIX
5 2 (2.27%) Iperf
5 2 (2.27%) OpenView
5 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.14%) CASB
6 1 (1.14%) OpenVAS
6 1 (1.14%) Perfmon
6 1 (1.14%) QRadar
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (52.27%) Cisco
2 31 (35.23%) Juniper
3 18 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 18 (20.45%) SolarWinds
4 17 (19.32%) NetScout
5 16 (18.18%) F5
6 14 (15.91%) Empirix
7 11 (12.50%) Fortinet
8 8 (9.09%) Splunk
9 7 (7.95%) Palo Alto
10 6 (6.82%) CheckPoint
10 6 (6.82%) Zscaler
11 5 (5.68%) Dell
12 4 (4.55%) HP
12 4 (4.55%) Infoblox
12 4 (4.55%) Micro Focus
12 4 (4.55%) Progress
13 3 (3.41%) Nokia
13 3 (3.41%) VMware
14 2 (2.27%) Citrix