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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 443 520
Rank change year-on-year -80 +77 +62
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 86 76 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.95% 1.99% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 40 42
10th Percentile £263 £394 £312
25th Percentile £375 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -12.62% -4.19%
75th Percentile £494 £600 £603
90th Percentile £580 £700 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £414 £450 £515
% change year-on-year -8.06% -12.62% +8.42%

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 4,409 3,818 5,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 13.11% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,840 2,370 3,543
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £375 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 145 397
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £13.94
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £67.31 £63.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £43.12
% change year-on-year +29.05% -24.62% +128.00%

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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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -90 77 £425 -19.10% 21
UK excluding London -53 63 £414 -8.06% 16
North of England -34 38 £420 -
North West -1 37 £435 -
West Midlands -34 27 £308 +112.07% 3
Midlands -40 27 £308 +112.07% 4
Work from Home -39 15 £450 -23.21% 5
South East -51 13 £450 -25.00% 8
London -75 12 £478 -13.09% 8
South West -29 5 £450 +32.35%
Wales - 1 £250 -
Yorkshire - 1 £413 -

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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 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (8.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.47%) Azure
2 7 (8.14%) AWS
3 4 (4.65%) GCP
4 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.33%) IBM Watson
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.33%) SaaS
4 2 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.16%) IaaS
5 1 (1.16%) PaaS
5 1 (1.16%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 41 (47.67%) DNS
1 41 (47.67%) HTTP
2 40 (46.51%) TCP/IP
3 38 (44.19%) BIG-IP
3 38 (44.19%) SSL
4 24 (27.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 24 (27.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 22 (25.58%) Firewall
6 18 (20.93%) WAN
7 16 (18.60%) VPN
8 13 (15.12%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (15.12%) LAN
8 13 (15.12%) OSPF
8 13 (15.12%) tcpdump
9 12 (13.95%) Cisco Nexus
9 12 (13.95%) MPLS
10 11 (12.79%) BGP
10 11 (12.79%) IPsec
10 11 (12.79%) Wireless
11 10 (11.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.33%) Power BI
1 2 (2.33%) Tableau
2 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (39.53%) Fiddler
2 7 (8.14%) Burp Suite
2 7 (8.14%) Metasploit
3 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.16%) JIRA
General
1 21 (24.42%) Banking
2 20 (23.26%) Investment Banking
3 17 (19.77%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (8.14%) Telecoms
7 6 (6.98%) Finance
8 4 (4.65%) Front Office
9 2 (2.33%) Aviation
10 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 54 (62.79%) Network Engineer
2 31 (36.05%) Web Engineer
3 23 (26.74%) IP Network Engineer
4 20 (23.26%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) Junior
6 11 (12.79%) Junior Network Engineer
7 8 (9.30%) Tester
8 7 (8.14%) Penetration Tester
9 5 (5.81%) Core Network Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Analyst
10 4 (4.65%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Design Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) IP Design Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) IP Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Technical Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Technical Support
11 3 (3.49%) Technical Support Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Voice Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.14%) LDAP
1 7 (8.14%) SAML
2 4 (4.65%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (4.65%) Middleware
2 4 (4.65%) Ultra Messaging
3 3 (3.49%) 802.1X
3 3 (3.49%) REST
4 2 (2.33%) Django
4 2 (2.33%) HTML
4 2 (2.33%) SOAP
5 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.16%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.16%) OAuth
5 1 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.58%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.65%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.65%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.33%) SCADA
4 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.16%) IoT
5 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.16%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.28%) Linux
2 7 (8.14%) Kali Linux
3 6 (6.98%) Windows
4 4 (4.65%) CatOS
5 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.33%) Unix
6 1 (1.16%) VMS
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.53%) Load Balancing
2 32 (37.21%) Data Loss Prevention
3 31 (36.05%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 13 (15.12%) Test Automation
5 8 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (9.30%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 7 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (8.14%) Ethical Hacking
6 7 (8.14%) Incident Response
6 7 (8.14%) Observability
6 7 (8.14%) OWASP
6 7 (8.14%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (8.14%) Red Team
6 7 (8.14%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (6.98%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (6.98%) Validation
8 5 (5.81%) CI/CD
8 5 (5.81%) Decision-Making
8 5 (5.81%) Network Design
8 5 (5.81%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.35%) Python
2 17 (19.77%) Bash
3 12 (13.95%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.49%) SQL
5 2 (2.33%) C
5 2 (2.33%) Java
5 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.16%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (9.30%) CCNP
5 7 (8.14%) CCNA
5 7 (8.14%) CEH
5 7 (8.14%) GPEN
5 7 (8.14%) OSCP
6 4 (4.65%) CCIE
7 2 (2.33%) BC Cleared
7 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.16%) CCDA
8 1 (1.16%) CCDP
8 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.16%) GCFE
8 1 (1.16%) GREM
8 1 (1.16%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.16%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) NCSC
1 3 (3.49%) NIST
2 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) GRC
3 1 (1.16%) JTAG
3 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 30 (34.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (25.58%) Firmware
3 20 (23.26%) VMware NSX
4 9 (10.47%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.16%) Docker
5 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.16%) KVM
5 1 (1.16%) Snort
Systems Management
1 21 (24.42%) Ansible
2 10 (11.63%) Nmap
3 7 (8.14%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (4.65%) Grafana
4 4 (4.65%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.49%) Terraform
6 2 (2.33%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (2.33%) Iperf
6 2 (2.33%) Nagios
7 1 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.16%) CASB
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.16%) FTK
7 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.16%) Suricata
Vendors
1 43 (50.00%) F5
1 43 (50.00%) VMware
2 32 (37.21%) McAfee
3 31 (36.05%) Blue Coat
4 26 (30.23%) Cisco
5 20 (23.26%) NetApp
6 15 (17.44%) CheckPoint
6 15 (17.44%) Palo Alto
7 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
8 9 (10.47%) Fortinet
9 8 (9.30%) SolarWinds
10 6 (6.98%) Juniper
11 5 (5.81%) Arista
11 5 (5.81%) Meraki
11 5 (5.81%) NetScout
12 4 (4.65%) Aruba
12 4 (4.65%) Infoblox
12 4 (4.65%) Solace
12 4 (4.65%) TIBCO
12 4 (4.65%) Tufin