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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 449 520
Rank change year-on-year -103 +71 +57
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 81 89 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.68% 2.40% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 44 30
10th Percentile £296 £422 £309
25th Percentile £405 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -12.20% +3.80%
75th Percentile £509 £488 £578
90th Percentile £633 £589 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £450 £515
% change year-on-year -4.44% -12.62% +21.18%
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 4,813 3,715 5,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.52% 12.46% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 2,278 3,209
10th Percentile £250 £225 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £471 £488
% change year-on-year +1.91% -3.38% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 173 422
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.82 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.00 £71.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £30.32 £47.50
% change year-on-year -7.65% -36.17% +150.46%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -104 77 £438 -2.78% 22
UK excluding London -83 66 £430 -4.44% 19
North of England -38 35 £455 +2.88% 3
North West -12 29 £455 +2.88% 3
Midlands -44 23 £320 -4.48% 5
West Midlands -47 23 £320 -4.48% 5
South East -67 20 £430 -4.44% 7
Work from Home -42 14 £444 -11.25% 8
London -86 8 £508 +1.50% 6
South West -21 6 £450 -11.33% 1
Yorkshire - 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 (9.88%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.64%) Azure
2 4 (4.94%) AWS
3 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.70%) SaaS
4 2 (2.47%) GCP
4 2 (2.47%) IBM Watson
4 2 (2.47%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.23%) IaaS
5 1 (1.23%) PaaS
5 1 (1.23%) Route 53
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (41.98%) DNS
2 32 (39.51%) HTTP
3 31 (38.27%) SSL
4 30 (37.04%) TCP/IP
5 29 (35.80%) BIG-IP
6 23 (28.40%) Firewall
6 23 (28.40%) MPLS
6 23 (28.40%) WAN
7 21 (25.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 21 (25.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 20 (24.69%) VPN
9 18 (22.22%) BGP
9 18 (22.22%) LAN
10 16 (19.75%) OSPF
11 14 (17.28%) 5G
11 14 (17.28%) Cisco Nexus
11 14 (17.28%) LTE
12 12 (14.81%) IPsec
13 11 (13.58%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (13.58%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.47%) Power BI
1 2 (2.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (30.86%) Fiddler
2 6 (7.41%) Git
2 6 (7.41%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.47%) MSI
3 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.23%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.23%) JIRA
4 1 (1.23%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (24.69%) Banking
2 19 (23.46%) Investment Banking
3 18 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 12 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.64%) Aviation
5 7 (8.64%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (8.64%) Telecoms
6 6 (7.41%) Finance
7 5 (6.17%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (6.17%) Police
8 2 (2.47%) Legal
8 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 44 (54.32%) Network Engineer
2 23 (28.40%) Web Engineer
3 20 (24.69%) IP Network Engineer
4 17 (20.99%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Junior
6 6 (7.41%) IP Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Junior Network Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Core Network Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Network Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Tester
9 3 (3.70%) Design Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) IP Design Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Security Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Senior
10 2 (2.47%) Telecoms Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) .NET
2 6 (7.41%) .NET Core
2 6 (7.41%) LDAP
2 6 (7.41%) SAML
3 5 (6.17%) REST
4 3 (3.70%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.47%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.47%) Django
5 2 (2.47%) SOAP
6 1 (1.23%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.46%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.17%) Robotics
3 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.47%) PKI
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.23%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.28%) Linux
2 8 (9.88%) Unix
3 6 (7.41%) Windows
4 2 (2.47%) CatOS
5 1 (1.23%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.10%) Load Balancing
2 24 (29.63%) Data Loss Prevention
3 23 (28.40%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 9 (11.11%) High Availability
5 8 (9.88%) Agile
5 8 (9.88%) Network Design
5 8 (9.88%) Zero Trust
6 7 (8.64%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.64%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (8.64%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (8.64%) Test Automation
7 6 (7.41%) BDD
7 6 (7.41%) Change Management
7 6 (7.41%) DevOps
7 6 (7.41%) Multithreading
7 6 (7.41%) Service Delivery
7 6 (7.41%) Software Engineering
7 6 (7.41%) TDD
8 5 (6.17%) AI
8 5 (6.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.10%) Python
2 9 (11.11%) SQL
3 6 (7.41%) C#
4 5 (6.17%) Bash
5 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.47%) C
6 2 (2.47%) C++
6 2 (2.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (14.81%) CCNP
3 11 (13.58%) Security Cleared
4 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
5 7 (8.64%) Degree
6 5 (6.17%) CCNA
6 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.94%) CCIE
8 2 (2.47%) BC Cleared
8 2 (2.47%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.23%) CCDA
9 1 (1.23%) CCDP
9 1 (1.23%) CCIP
9 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.23%) GCIA
9 1 (1.23%) GCIH
9 1 (1.23%) GPEN
9 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) SLA
2 4 (4.94%) NIST
3 3 (3.70%) GDPR
3 3 (3.70%) NCSC
4 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.47%) QA
5 1 (1.23%) GRC
5 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (24.69%) Firmware
3 14 (17.28%) VMware NSX
4 7 (8.64%) Active Directory
4 7 (8.64%) Docker
5 3 (3.70%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.23%) KVM
6 1 (1.23%) Snort
Systems Management
1 14 (17.28%) Ansible
2 9 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.70%) Nmap
4 3 (3.70%) Terraform
5 2 (2.47%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.47%) Iperf
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.47%) Suricata
6 1 (1.23%) CASB
6 1 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 39 (48.15%) F5
2 36 (44.44%) VMware
3 32 (39.51%) Cisco
4 24 (29.63%) McAfee
5 23 (28.40%) Blue Coat
6 17 (20.99%) NetApp
7 16 (19.75%) Palo Alto
8 15 (18.52%) Fortinet
9 13 (16.05%) CheckPoint
9 13 (16.05%) Juniper
10 11 (13.58%) Microsoft
11 8 (9.88%) Arista
11 8 (9.88%) SolarWinds
12 6 (7.41%) BT
12 6 (7.41%) Ericsson
12 6 (7.41%) Huawei
12 6 (7.41%) Nokia
13 5 (6.17%) NetScout
14 4 (4.94%) HP
14 4 (4.94%) Tufin