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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 460 487
Rank change year-on-year -134 +27 +94
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 84 97 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.66% 2.59% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 57 30
10th Percentile £333 £388 £447
25th Percentile £404 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £511 £491 £582
90th Percentile £642 £588 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -6.67% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £48.75 - £21.28
25th Percentile £52.50 - £25.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £33.25
75th Percentile £67.50 - £41.44
90th Percentile £71.25 - £45.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - £33.25

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 5,075 3,744 4,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.33% 11.54% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,953 2,307 2,642
10th Percentile £235 £228 £231
25th Percentile £385 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -5.43% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £610
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -9.30% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 196 260
10th Percentile £14.57 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.11 £43.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.95% -15.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.88 £64.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £74.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -38.49% -25.89% -0.26%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 15 September 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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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Wireshark in the UK

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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 15 September 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 -132 83 £450 - 108
UK excluding London -120 51 £420 -6.67% 71
London -85 29 £450 -5.26% 42
North of England -57 25 £420 -4.00% 3
North West -33 19 £420 -5.03% 2
Midlands -47 17 £375 -22.72% 13
West Midlands -54 17 £375 -22.72% 12
South East -68 16 £430 -4.44% 27
Work from Home -69 16 £426 -4.96% 24
Yorkshire -32 5 - - 1
East of England - 4 £367 - 16
South West -57 2 £700 +55.56% 10
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 (9.52%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.38%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.90%) Azure
2 6 (7.14%) AWS
3 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.57%) GCP
4 3 (3.57%) IBM Watson
5 2 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.38%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (2.38%) GitHub
5 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.38%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.38%) SaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (29.76%) 5G
2 24 (28.57%) LTE
3 23 (27.38%) Radio Access Network
4 22 (26.19%) DNS
5 20 (23.81%) 3GPP
6 19 (22.62%) TCP/IP
7 17 (20.24%) SSL
8 16 (19.05%) HTTP
8 16 (19.05%) WAN
9 15 (17.86%) BIG-IP
9 15 (17.86%) tcpdump
10 14 (16.67%) 4G
10 14 (16.67%) BGP
10 14 (16.67%) Firewall
11 13 (15.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 13 (15.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 13 (15.48%) MPLS
11 13 (15.48%) RTP
12 12 (14.29%) OSPF
12 12 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 15 (17.86%) Fiddler
2 8 (9.52%) Git
3 7 (8.33%) TeamCity
4 5 (5.95%) JIRA
5 4 (4.76%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (2.38%) GitLab
6 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.38%) JMeter
6 2 (2.38%) Locust
6 2 (2.38%) MSI
6 2 (2.38%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.38%) TestCafe
6 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.19%) Newman
7 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (30.95%) Telecoms
2 23 (27.38%) Social Skills
3 17 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (19.05%) Banking
5 15 (17.86%) Investment Banking
6 9 (10.71%) Finance
7 7 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
9 5 (5.95%) Aviation
9 5 (5.95%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
9 5 (5.95%) Police
10 3 (3.57%) Military
11 2 (2.38%) Legal
11 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 13 (15.48%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 13 (15.48%) IP Network Engineer
2 13 (15.48%) Web Engineer
3 8 (9.52%) RAN Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Senior
6 5 (5.95%) Technologist
7 4 (4.76%) Engineering Specialist
7 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) IP Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Telecoms Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Architect
9 2 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Network Architect
9 2 (2.38%) Network Security Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.71%) .NET
2 6 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 4 (4.76%) REST
4 3 (3.57%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (3.57%) LDAP
4 3 (3.57%) SAML
4 3 (3.57%) Servlets
5 2 (2.38%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.38%) Taurus
5 2 (2.38%) Terraform
6 1 (1.19%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.19%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.19%) WebRTC
6 1 (1.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.95%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.95%) Robotics
3 3 (3.57%) PKI
4 2 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.38%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.24%) Linux
2 6 (7.14%) Unix
3 4 (4.76%) Windows
4 2 (2.38%) CentOS
4 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
2 15 (17.86%) Load Balancing
2 15 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (16.67%) AI
4 13 (15.48%) Computer Science
4 13 (15.48%) Data Loss Prevention
4 13 (15.48%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 12 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 12 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 12 (14.29%) High Availability
5 12 (14.29%) Network Design
6 11 (13.10%) DevOps
7 9 (10.71%) Agile
7 9 (10.71%) Multithreading
8 8 (9.52%) Project Management
8 8 (9.52%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.33%) Service Management
9 7 (8.33%) TDD
9 7 (8.33%) Test Automation
9 7 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.24%) Python
2 7 (8.33%) C#
2 7 (8.33%) SQL
3 6 (7.14%) Java
3 6 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.76%) C
5 3 (3.57%) Bash
5 3 (3.57%) Lua
6 2 (2.38%) C++
7 1 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.19%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 17 (20.24%) Degree
2 12 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (9.52%) CCNP
4 7 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.95%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.95%) PhD
5 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.76%) CCNA
7 3 (3.57%) MOS
8 2 (2.38%) GCIH
8 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.19%) CCIE
9 1 (1.19%) CISSP
9 1 (1.19%) GCIA
9 1 (1.19%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.19%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) SLA
2 4 (4.76%) GDPR
3 3 (3.57%) NIST
3 3 (3.57%) QA
4 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (27.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (19.05%) Firmware
3 12 (14.29%) Docker
4 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.38%) KVM
5 2 (2.38%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.19%) Snort
6 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.38%) Suricata
3 1 (1.19%) Ansible
3 1 (1.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (29.76%) VMware
2 22 (26.19%) Cisco
2 22 (26.19%) F5
3 18 (21.43%) Ericsson
3 18 (21.43%) Nokia
4 13 (15.48%) Blue Coat
4 13 (15.48%) McAfee
4 13 (15.48%) NetApp
5 9 (10.71%) Juniper
6 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
7 7 (8.33%) Arista
7 7 (8.33%) Palo Alto
8 6 (7.14%) BT
8 6 (7.14%) Fortinet
8 6 (7.14%) Huawei
8 6 (7.14%) IBM
9 5 (5.95%) Splunk
10 4 (4.76%) Metaswitch
10 4 (4.76%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.57%) NetScout