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

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 465 532
Rank change year-on-year +1 +67 +83
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 118 78 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.99% 1.76% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 44 35
10th Percentile £375 £404 £335
25th Percentile £417 £450 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £491 £600 £600
90th Percentile £575 £693 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -2.22% +5.88% -17.07%
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 3,946 4,427 6,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.88% 12.40% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 2,561 3,890
10th Percentile £206 £220 £211
25th Percentile £356 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £584 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 165 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.95 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.04 £22.50 £22.75
Median hourly rate £33.39 £41.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% -25.45% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £48.03 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.51% -14.98% +25.53%

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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 11 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 13 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 11 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 +3 110 £450 -14.29% 30
UK excluding London -17 71 £440 -2.22% 30
London +7 34 £463 -15.91% 9
Work from Home -4 32 £447 -18.73% 9
West Midlands +1 30 £479 - 6
Midlands -13 30 £479 - 7
North of England -27 28 £442 -21.38% 3
North West -5 22 £447 - 3
South East -6 16 £419 -10.77% 12
South West -25 7 £450 -
Yorkshire -45 6 £435 -22.67%
Channel Islands - 1 £440 -
Wales - 1 £250 - 4

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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 9 (7.63%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (27.12%) AWS
2 24 (20.34%) Akamai
3 22 (18.64%) GCP
4 10 (8.47%) Azure
5 4 (3.39%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.54%) SaaS
7 2 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (40.68%) Firewall
2 35 (29.66%) DNS
3 29 (24.58%) TCP/IP
4 28 (23.73%) OSPF
5 26 (22.03%) BGP
5 26 (22.03%) HTTP
6 24 (20.34%) SSL
7 19 (16.10%) 3GPP
7 19 (16.10%) 4G
7 19 (16.10%) BIG-IP
7 19 (16.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 19 (16.10%) Radio Access Network
8 18 (15.25%) VLAN
9 15 (12.71%) IPsec
10 13 (11.02%) VPN
10 13 (11.02%) WAN
11 12 (10.17%) DHCP
11 12 (10.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 12 (10.17%) MPLS
12 10 (8.47%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (18.64%) Fiddler
2 9 (7.63%) Metasploit
3 8 (6.78%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.85%) JIRA
4 1 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 40 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.25%) Telecoms
4 14 (11.86%) Banking
5 13 (11.02%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.24%) Front Office
6 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.39%) Finance
8 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (37.29%) Network Engineer
2 12 (10.17%) Web Engineer
3 11 (9.32%) Tester
4 10 (8.47%) Network Design Specialist
4 10 (8.47%) Network Specialist
4 10 (8.47%) Performance Specialist
5 9 (7.63%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (7.63%) Test Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) IP Network Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Penetration Tester
6 8 (6.78%) Senior
7 7 (5.93%) Designer
7 7 (5.93%) Junior Network Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Network Designer
7 7 (5.93%) Security Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Technical Support
7 7 (5.93%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) SAML
2 6 (5.08%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (5.08%) Middleware
3 5 (4.24%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (3.39%) REST
4 4 (3.39%) SOAP
5 3 (2.54%) LDAP
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.54%) OAuth
6 2 (1.69%) HTML
7 1 (0.85%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.41%) Security Posture
2 12 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 12 (10.17%) Operational Technology
3 8 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.78%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.69%) Digital Currency
5 2 (1.69%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.69%) SCADA
5 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.85%) PKI
6 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.10%) Linux
2 8 (6.78%) Kali Linux
2 8 (6.78%) Windows
3 4 (3.39%) Unix
4 3 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.69%) CatOS
5 2 (1.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.81%) Test Automation
2 25 (21.19%) Ethical Hacking
2 25 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (16.95%) High Availability
4 18 (15.25%) OWASP
5 17 (14.41%) Application Security
5 17 (14.41%) DevSecOps
6 16 (13.56%) CI/CD
6 16 (13.56%) Load Balancing
7 12 (10.17%) Data Loss Prevention
7 12 (10.17%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 12 (10.17%) Network Segmentation
7 12 (10.17%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (10.17%) Security Testing
8 11 (9.32%) Network Design
9 9 (7.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 9 (7.63%) Reverse Engineering
10 8 (6.78%) Continuous Deployment
10 8 (6.78%) Project Delivery
10 8 (6.78%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 37 (31.36%) Python
2 26 (22.03%) Bash
3 19 (16.10%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.39%) Java
5 2 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.85%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.17%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (8.47%) CCNP
4 9 (7.63%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.78%) CEH
5 8 (6.78%) GPEN
5 8 (6.78%) OSCP
6 7 (5.93%) DV Cleared
7 6 (5.08%) CCNA
8 3 (2.54%) CCIE
9 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.85%) Degree
9 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.85%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.85%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (1.69%) GDPR
1 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.69%) NIST
2 1 (0.85%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.85%) JTAG
2 1 (0.85%) SLA
2 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (9.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.63%) Docker
2 9 (7.63%) Firmware
3 8 (6.78%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (16.10%) Ansible
2 16 (13.56%) CSIRT
3 12 (10.17%) Nmap
4 7 (5.93%) FortiGate
5 6 (5.08%) Grafana
5 6 (5.08%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.54%) Iperf
7 2 (1.69%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (1.69%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.69%) Nagios
8 1 (0.85%) Nessus
8 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (37.29%) F5
2 28 (23.73%) Cisco
3 22 (18.64%) Splunk
4 19 (16.10%) SolarWinds
5 16 (13.56%) Blue Coat
5 16 (13.56%) McAfee
6 15 (12.71%) Juniper
6 15 (12.71%) VMware
7 14 (11.86%) Microsoft
7 14 (11.86%) Nokia
8 12 (10.17%) NetApp
9 11 (9.32%) Fortinet
10 10 (8.47%) Actix
10 10 (8.47%) Ericsson
11 9 (7.63%) Dell
12 7 (5.93%) Meraki
12 7 (5.93%) Palo Alto
13 6 (5.08%) CheckPoint
13 6 (5.08%) Solace
14 5 (4.24%) TIBCO