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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 446 504
Rank change year-on-year -88 +58 +78
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 94 81 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.15% 2.07% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 44 45
10th Percentile £266 £404 £316
25th Percentile £397 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -9.31% -7.27%
75th Percentile £492 £627 £575
90th Percentile £549 £700 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £450 £469
% change year-on-year -7.36% -4.00% -6.25%

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 4,363 3,919 5,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.11% 13.35% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,819 2,409 3,579
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £368 £370 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.43%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 142 395
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.01 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.46 £18.47
Median hourly rate £40.54 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.06 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +30.00% -29.16% +148.00%

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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 17 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 17 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 -78 83 £427 -20.51% 20
UK excluding London -57 65 £417 -7.36% 17
North of England -34 36 £435 -
North West 0 35 £450 -
Midlands -29 27 £308 +112.07% 3
West Midlands -38 27 £308 +112.07% 3
Work from Home -29 19 £440 -32.35% 5
South East -40 16 £425 -29.17% 10
London -69 13 £464 -15.64% 5
South West -27 5 £450 +32.35%
Yorkshire - 1 £413 -
Wales - 1 £250 -

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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 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.77%) AWS
2 10 (10.64%) GCP
3 9 (9.57%) Azure
4 6 (6.38%) Akamai
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.19%) SaaS
6 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.13%) IBM Watson
6 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.06%) IaaS
7 1 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (43.62%) HTTP
2 39 (41.49%) DNS
2 39 (41.49%) TCP/IP
3 37 (39.36%) BIG-IP
3 37 (39.36%) SSL
4 27 (28.72%) Firewall
5 23 (24.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 23 (24.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 18 (19.15%) WAN
7 16 (17.02%) VPN
8 13 (13.83%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (13.83%) LAN
8 13 (13.83%) OSPF
9 12 (12.77%) Cisco Nexus
9 12 (12.77%) MPLS
9 12 (12.77%) tcpdump
10 11 (11.70%) BGP
10 11 (11.70%) IPsec
10 11 (11.70%) Wireless
11 10 (10.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.13%) Power BI
1 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
1 2 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (36.17%) Fiddler
2 9 (9.57%) Burp Suite
2 9 (9.57%) Metasploit
3 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 25 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (21.28%) Banking
4 19 (20.21%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (8.51%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.38%) Finance
7 4 (4.26%) Front Office
8 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.13%) Aviation
10 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (55.32%) Network Engineer
2 30 (31.91%) Web Engineer
3 22 (23.40%) IP Network Engineer
4 19 (20.21%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Junior
6 11 (11.70%) Junior Network Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Tester
8 9 (9.57%) Penetration Tester
9 5 (5.32%) Core Network Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Technical Support
10 4 (4.26%) Technical Support Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Design Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) IP Design Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) IP Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Voice Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.45%) LDAP
1 7 (7.45%) SAML
2 4 (4.26%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (4.26%) Middleware
2 4 (4.26%) Ultra Messaging
3 3 (3.19%) 802.1X
3 3 (3.19%) REST
4 2 (2.13%) Django
4 2 (2.13%) HTML
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.13%) OAuth
4 2 (2.13%) SOAP
5 1 (1.06%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.34%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.45%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.26%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) SCADA
6 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) IoT
7 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.02%) Linux
2 9 (9.57%) Kali Linux
3 7 (7.45%) Windows
4 4 (4.26%) CatOS
5 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.13%) Unix
5 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.11%) Load Balancing
2 31 (32.98%) Data Loss Prevention
3 30 (31.91%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 21 (22.34%) Test Automation
5 15 (15.96%) Ethical Hacking
6 13 (13.83%) OWASP
7 10 (10.64%) CI/CD
7 10 (10.64%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 9 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (9.57%) Penetration Testing
8 9 (9.57%) Red Team
8 9 (9.57%) Security Testing
9 8 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (8.51%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (7.45%) Incident Response
10 7 (7.45%) Observability
11 6 (6.38%) Application Security
11 6 (6.38%) Capacity Planning
11 6 (6.38%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 41 (43.62%) Python
2 19 (20.21%) Bash
3 15 (15.96%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.19%) SQL
5 2 (2.13%) C
5 2 (2.13%) Java
5 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.06%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.06%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (9.57%) CEH
4 9 (9.57%) GPEN
4 9 (9.57%) OSCP
5 8 (8.51%) CCNP
6 7 (7.45%) CCNA
7 4 (4.26%) CCIE
8 2 (2.13%) BC Cleared
8 2 (2.13%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.06%) CCDA
9 1 (1.06%) CCDP
9 1 (1.06%) CISSP
9 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.06%) GCFE
9 1 (1.06%) GREM
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) NCSC
1 3 (3.19%) NIST
2 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) GRC
3 1 (1.06%) JTAG
3 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 29 (30.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (22.34%) Firmware
3 20 (21.28%) VMware NSX
4 10 (10.64%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.06%) Docker
5 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.06%) KVM
5 1 (1.06%) Snort
Systems Management
1 21 (22.34%) Ansible
2 12 (12.77%) Nmap
3 7 (7.45%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (6.38%) CSIRT
5 4 (4.26%) Grafana
5 4 (4.26%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.19%) Terraform
7 2 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.13%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (2.13%) Iperf
7 2 (2.13%) Nagios
8 1 (1.06%) CASB
8 1 (1.06%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.06%) FTK
8 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.06%) Suricata
Vendors
1 48 (51.06%) F5
2 42 (44.68%) VMware
3 31 (32.98%) McAfee
4 30 (31.91%) Blue Coat
5 26 (27.66%) Cisco
6 19 (20.21%) NetApp
7 15 (15.96%) CheckPoint
7 15 (15.96%) Palo Alto
8 12 (12.77%) Microsoft
9 9 (9.57%) Fortinet
10 8 (8.51%) SolarWinds
10 8 (8.51%) Splunk
11 6 (6.38%) Juniper
12 5 (5.32%) Arista
12 5 (5.32%) Meraki
12 5 (5.32%) NetScout
13 4 (4.26%) Aruba
13 4 (4.26%) Solace
13 4 (4.26%) TIBCO
13 4 (4.26%) Tufin