Wireshark Contracts

Wireshark
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Wireshark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireshark over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 510 564
Rank change year-on-year +57 +54 +146
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 88 74 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.32% 1.37% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 29 73
10th Percentile £420 £308 £263
25th Percentile - £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +5.64% -11.36%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £613
90th Percentile £596 £644 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £515 £400
% change year-on-year -12.62% +28.75% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.67% +13.98%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £77.56
90th Percentile - - £77.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £47.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -36.67% +13.98%

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 3,788 5,403 7,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.47% 12.46% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,277 3,185 4,600
10th Percentile £225 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -5.05% +4.21% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 428 435
10th Percentile £14.35 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £41.48 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +114.29% -26.32%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £73.55 £73.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +115.91% -1.35%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the UK

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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 11 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 June 2025. 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 +74 71 £463 -11.90% 85
UK excluding London +36 42 £450 -12.62% 55
London +54 26 £500 -4.76% 33
South East +53 21 £450 -4.26% 15
Work from Home +42 18 £500 +4.17% 73
West Midlands +15 10 £335 -39.09% 8
Midlands +10 10 £335 -39.09% 10
South West +36 5 £508 - 3
North West +13 5 £442 - 14
North of England +1 5 £442 -14.13% 19
Channel Islands - 1 £440 -

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 5 (5.68%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.91%) AWS
2 7 (7.95%) Azure
3 4 (4.55%) Akamai
4 2 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.14%) Datadog
5 1 (1.14%) GCP
5 1 (1.14%) GitHub
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (40.91%) Firewall
2 30 (34.09%) LTE
3 27 (30.68%) WAN
4 24 (27.27%) LAN
5 23 (26.14%) BGP
5 23 (26.14%) MPLS
5 23 (26.14%) Network Security
5 23 (26.14%) OSPF
6 22 (25.00%) 5G
7 20 (22.73%) 4G
7 20 (22.73%) Radio Access Network
8 19 (21.59%) VPN
9 17 (19.32%) Diameter Protocol
9 17 (19.32%) VoLTE
10 15 (17.05%) ATM
10 15 (17.05%) Ethernet
10 15 (17.05%) GPRS
10 15 (17.05%) RANAP
10 15 (17.05%) SDH
10 15 (17.05%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) GitLab
2 2 (2.27%) Git
2 2 (2.27%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.14%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.14%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) JMeter
3 1 (1.14%) JProfiler
3 1 (1.14%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.14%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.14%) Toad
General
1 51 (57.95%) Social Skills
2 25 (28.41%) Telecoms
3 20 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 43 (48.86%) Network Engineer
2 18 (20.45%) Test Engineer
3 14 (15.91%) IP Engineer
4 7 (7.95%) Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Network Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Network Security Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Designer
6 5 (5.68%) IP Network Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Network Designer
6 5 (5.68%) Senior
7 3 (3.41%) Consultant
7 3 (3.41%) Juniper Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Network Operations Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.27%) IP Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.36%) 802.1X
2 4 (4.55%) JSON
2 4 (4.55%) XML
3 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.14%) OAuth
4 1 (1.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (10.23%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.68%) Operational Technology
4 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.41%) Replication
6 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.27%) PKI
7 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.14%) MISP
7 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Linux
2 16 (18.18%) Unix
3 3 (3.41%) Windows
4 1 (1.14%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.45%) Performance Analysis
3 17 (19.32%) Network Architecture
4 16 (18.18%) Customer Experience
4 16 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
5 15 (17.05%) Fault Management
5 15 (17.05%) Performance Improvement
5 15 (17.05%) Project Management
5 15 (17.05%) Regression Testing
5 15 (17.05%) Test Strategy
5 15 (17.05%) Translating Business Requirements
6 10 (11.36%) Service Management
7 9 (10.23%) High Availability
8 7 (7.95%) Matrix Organization
8 7 (7.95%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (5.68%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (5.68%) Load Balancing
10 5 (5.68%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.59%) Java
2 14 (15.91%) Python
3 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.55%) SQL
5 2 (2.27%) Bash
6 1 (1.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 32 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (35.23%) CCNP
3 16 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 15 (17.05%) ISEB
4 15 (17.05%) ISTQB
4 15 (17.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.82%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.55%) CCIE
7 4 (4.55%) CCNA
7 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.55%) Degree
8 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.14%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (1.14%) CEH
9 1 (1.14%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.14%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) SLA
2 1 (1.14%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) Docker
2 3 (3.41%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (3.41%) iptables
3 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (13.64%) Ansible
2 4 (4.55%) FortiGate
2 4 (4.55%) HP ALM
2 4 (4.55%) Terraform
3 3 (3.41%) Cacti
3 3 (3.41%) Grafana
3 3 (3.41%) Nagios
3 3 (3.41%) Netcool
3 3 (3.41%) Proxmox
3 3 (3.41%) Puppet
3 3 (3.41%) ZABBIX
4 2 (2.27%) Iperf
4 2 (2.27%) Nessus
4 2 (2.27%) OpenView
5 1 (1.14%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.14%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (1.14%) Graylog
5 1 (1.14%) logstash
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.14%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 45 (51.14%) Cisco
2 30 (34.09%) Juniper
3 19 (21.59%) Microsoft
3 19 (21.59%) NetScout
4 16 (18.18%) SolarWinds
5 15 (17.05%) Empirix
5 15 (17.05%) F5
6 9 (10.23%) Fortinet
7 8 (9.09%) Palo Alto
8 7 (7.95%) Splunk
9 6 (6.82%) CheckPoint
10 5 (5.68%) Dell
10 5 (5.68%) Zscaler
11 4 (4.55%) HP
11 4 (4.55%) Infoblox
11 4 (4.55%) Micro Focus
11 4 (4.55%) Progress
12 3 (3.41%) Nokia
12 3 (3.41%) VMware
13 2 (2.27%) Blue Coat