Wireshark Contracts

Wireshark
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Wireshark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wireshark over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 591 749
Rank change year-on-year +73 +158 -166
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 80 128 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.42% 1.74% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 75 61
10th Percentile £307 £288 £390
25th Percentile £421 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% +23.53%
75th Percentile £606 £900 £575
90th Percentile £669 - £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +33.13% -11.11% +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% +31.60%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £78.20 £73.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Wireshark is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Wireshark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the UK

Wireshark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireshark.

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in the UK

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the UK

Wireshark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireshark.

Hourly rate trend for Wireshark in the UK

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Top 14 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +84 71 £550 +4.76% 23
UK excluding London +57 48 £533 +33.13% 21
London +64 24 £550 -38.89% 10
Work from Home +82 19 £510 -34.19% 9
South West +15 14 £488 +21.88% 3
East of England - 9 £550 - 2
North of England +28 8 £515 +58.46% 4
South East +20 8 £300 -40.00% 1
Midlands +26 7 £550 +23.60% 2
West Midlands +31 5 £550 +23.60% 2
Yorkshire +24 5 £515 +14.44% 1
North West +7 3 - - 2
Scotland +31 2 £310 -38.00% 8
East Midlands - 2 - -

Wireshark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.00%) Confluence
1 4 (5.00%) IIS
1 4 (5.00%) MQSeries
1 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (6.25%) Akamai
2 5 (6.25%) AWS
2 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (6.25%) Cloudflare
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.75%) GCP
4 1 (1.25%) SaaS
4 1 (1.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 30 (37.50%) Firewall
2 25 (31.25%) TCP/IP
3 22 (27.50%) Radio Access Network
4 20 (25.00%) DNS
5 17 (21.25%) 4G
6 16 (20.00%) LTE
6 16 (20.00%) Network Security
6 16 (20.00%) VPN
6 16 (20.00%) Wireless
7 14 (17.50%) tcpdump
8 13 (16.25%) MPLS
8 13 (16.25%) WAN
9 12 (15.00%) IPsec
10 11 (13.75%) DHCP
10 11 (13.75%) LAN
10 11 (13.75%) SNMP
11 10 (12.50%) 3GPP
11 10 (12.50%) BGP
11 10 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
11 10 (12.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (5.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (5.00%) Tableau
2 2 (2.50%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) JIRA
2 5 (6.25%) Fiddler
3 4 (5.00%) gcov
3 4 (5.00%) GDB
3 4 (5.00%) Git
3 4 (5.00%) Gradle
3 4 (5.00%) IDA Disassembler
3 4 (5.00%) Subversion
4 3 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (35.00%) Telecoms
2 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Multimedia
5 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Finance
6 3 (3.75%) Retail
7 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 9 (11.25%) Architect
2 9 (11.25%) Senior
3 7 (8.75%) Support Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Administrator
5 5 (6.25%) Network Support
5 5 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Analyst
6 4 (5.00%) C++ Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) SharePoint Administrator
6 4 (5.00%) Unix Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) LDAP
2 4 (5.00%) .NET
2 4 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (5.00%) OLE
2 4 (5.00%) SAML
3 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.50%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (5.00%) YARA
3 3 (3.75%) Clustering
3 3 (3.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.50%) Shadow IT
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) Derivative
5 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.25%) Linux
2 13 (16.25%) Windows
3 6 (7.50%) Unix
4 1 (1.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.75%) High Availability
2 13 (16.25%) Computer Science
2 13 (16.25%) Load Balancing
3 11 (13.75%) Network Design
3 11 (13.75%) SIEM
4 10 (12.50%) Project Management
5 8 (10.00%) DevOps
6 7 (8.75%) Change Management
7 6 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (7.50%) Integration Testing
7 6 (7.50%) ITIL
7 6 (7.50%) Network Monitoring
8 5 (6.25%) Customer Experience
8 5 (6.25%) Customer Service
8 5 (6.25%) Incident Response
8 5 (6.25%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (6.25%) RAD
8 5 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.25%) Python
2 4 (5.00%) C
2 4 (5.00%) C++
2 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (17.50%) Degree
3 11 (13.75%) CCNA
4 10 (12.50%) CCNP
5 8 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.75%) CCDP
6 3 (3.75%) CCIE
6 3 (3.75%) VCAP
7 1 (1.25%) CCFP
7 1 (1.25%) CHFI
7 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) EnCE
7 1 (1.25%) GCED
7 1 (1.25%) GPEN
7 1 (1.25%) GREM
7 1 (1.25%) GWAPT
7 1 (1.25%) OSCE
7 1 (1.25%) OSCP
7 1 (1.25%) OSWP
7 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) GDPR
1 4 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.00%) Samba
2 4 (5.00%) Snort
2 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Kibana
1 7 (8.75%) OpenView
2 6 (7.50%) Nmap
3 4 (5.00%) Nessus
3 4 (5.00%) SCOM
3 4 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.75%) Ansible
5 2 (2.50%) Nagios
5 2 (2.50%) OpenNMS
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.25%) CSIRT
6 1 (1.25%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.25%) Iperf
6 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.25%) QRadar
6 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (30.00%) Cisco
2 12 (15.00%) Actix
2 12 (15.00%) Nokia
3 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.75%) SolarWinds
4 10 (12.50%) Ericsson
4 10 (12.50%) F5
4 10 (12.50%) Huawei
5 9 (11.25%) Arista
5 9 (11.25%) Splunk
6 8 (10.00%) Fortinet
7 7 (8.75%) CheckPoint
7 7 (8.75%) Zscaler
8 6 (7.50%) Meraki
9 5 (6.25%) VMware
10 4 (5.00%) Empirix
10 4 (5.00%) Google
10 4 (5.00%) Palo Alto
10 4 (5.00%) Perforce
10 4 (5.00%) Red Hat