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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 476 510
Rank change year-on-year -103 +34 +82
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 79 85 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.59% 2.14% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 27
10th Percentile £293 £420 £306
25th Percentile £407 £449 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.37%
75th Percentile £569 £488 £548
90th Percentile £646 £538 £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £449 £470
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.57% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £47.50
75th Percentile £48.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -36.67%

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 4,983 3,969 5,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.45% 12.15% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,000 2,423 3,051
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £590 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 194 377
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £13.95
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £17.63
Median hourly rate £26.22 £46.88 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.06% +17.19% -16.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.70 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -37.27% -10.53% -16.67%

Wireshark
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

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 23 July 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 23 July 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 -113 75 £450 - 31
UK excluding London -75 61 £440 -1.90% 23
North of England -48 30 £420 -3.72% 2
North West -26 24 £420 -5.03% 2
South East -61 22 £440 -2.22% 7
Midlands -45 20 £356 +6.34% 7
West Midlands -50 20 £356 +6.34% 7
Work from Home -59 15 £444 -11.25% 8
London -84 11 £516 +3.20% 12
South West -38 6 £450 - 3
Yorkshire -46 5 - -
North East - 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 8 (10.13%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.86%) Azure
2 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.80%) AWS
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.80%) SaaS
4 2 (2.53%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.27%) GCP
5 1 (1.27%) IaaS
5 1 (1.27%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.27%) PaaS
5 1 (1.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 27 (34.18%) DNS
2 26 (32.91%) TCP/IP
3 24 (30.38%) HTTP
4 23 (29.11%) SSL
5 21 (26.58%) BIG-IP
5 21 (26.58%) Firewall
5 21 (26.58%) MPLS
6 20 (25.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 20 (25.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 19 (24.05%) BGP
8 18 (22.78%) 5G
8 18 (22.78%) LTE
8 18 (22.78%) WAN
9 17 (21.52%) OSPF
10 15 (18.99%) VPN
11 13 (16.46%) Radio Access Network
12 12 (15.19%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (15.19%) LAN
13 11 (13.92%) Diameter Protocol
13 11 (13.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.53%) Power BI
1 2 (2.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (25.32%) Fiddler
2 7 (8.86%) Git
2 7 (8.86%) TeamCity
3 4 (5.06%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (2.53%) MSI
4 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.27%) JIRA
5 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (24.05%) Banking
1 19 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.78%) Investment Banking
3 14 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.66%) Telecoms
5 7 (8.86%) Aviation
6 5 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.33%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (6.33%) Police
7 4 (5.06%) Finance
8 3 (3.80%) Military
9 2 (2.53%) Legal
9 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.27%) Law
10 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (45.57%) Network Engineer
2 19 (24.05%) IP Network Engineer
3 18 (22.78%) Web Engineer
4 16 (20.25%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) IP Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Senior
8 4 (5.06%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Architect
9 3 (3.80%) Core Network Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Design Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) IP Design Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Network Architect
9 3 (3.80%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Telecoms Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Tester
10 2 (2.53%) Junior Network Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) .NET
2 6 (7.59%) .NET Core
3 5 (6.33%) REST
4 4 (5.06%) SAML
5 3 (3.80%) 802.1X
5 3 (3.80%) LDAP
6 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.53%) SOAP
7 1 (1.27%) NETCONF
7 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.33%) Robotics
3 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.53%) PKI
5 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.27%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.72%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Unix
3 6 (7.59%) Windows
4 1 (1.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.58%) Load Balancing
2 19 (24.05%) Data Loss Prevention
3 18 (22.78%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 11 (13.92%) High Availability
5 10 (12.66%) CI/CD
6 9 (11.39%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (10.13%) Agile
7 8 (10.13%) Computer Science
7 8 (10.13%) DevOps
7 8 (10.13%) Zero Trust
8 7 (8.86%) BDD
8 7 (8.86%) Multithreading
8 7 (8.86%) Software Engineering
8 7 (8.86%) TDD
8 7 (8.86%) Test Automation
9 6 (7.59%) AI
9 6 (7.59%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (7.59%) Network Design
9 6 (7.59%) Service Delivery
9 6 (7.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.85%) Python
2 10 (12.66%) SQL
3 7 (8.86%) C#
4 6 (7.59%) C
5 5 (6.33%) Java
5 5 (6.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.06%) Bash
7 3 (3.80%) Lua
8 2 (2.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (15.19%) CCNP
3 10 (12.66%) Degree
3 10 (12.66%) Security Cleared
4 9 (11.39%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.33%) CCNA
5 5 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.06%) CCIE
7 2 (2.53%) BC Cleared
7 2 (2.53%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.27%) CCDA
8 1 (1.27%) CCDP
8 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.27%) GCIA
8 1 (1.27%) GCIH
8 1 (1.27%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.27%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) SLA
2 3 (3.80%) NCSC
2 3 (3.80%) NIST
3 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.53%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.53%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.27%) GRC
4 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 28 (35.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (24.05%) Firmware
3 11 (13.92%) Docker
4 5 (6.33%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
6 3 (3.80%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.80%) KVM
7 1 (1.27%) Snort
7 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.86%) Ansible
3 3 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.53%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (2.53%) Iperf
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.53%) Nmap
4 2 (2.53%) Suricata
4 2 (2.53%) Terraform
5 1 (1.27%) CASB
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 32 (40.51%) VMware
2 31 (39.24%) F5
3 28 (35.44%) Cisco
4 19 (24.05%) McAfee
5 18 (22.78%) Blue Coat
6 16 (20.25%) NetApp
7 14 (17.72%) Fortinet
7 14 (17.72%) Juniper
7 14 (17.72%) Palo Alto
8 9 (11.39%) CheckPoint
8 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
9 8 (10.13%) Ericsson
9 8 (10.13%) Nokia
9 8 (10.13%) SolarWinds
10 6 (7.59%) Arista
10 6 (7.59%) BT
10 6 (7.59%) Huawei
11 4 (5.06%) HP
11 4 (5.06%) Meraki
11 4 (5.06%) NetScout