Wireshark Contracts in the West Midlands

Wireshark
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 107 122
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +41
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 16 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.93% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.50% 1.33% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £281 - £431
25th Percentile £431 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.87%
75th Percentile £490 - £559
90th Percentile £514 - £584
England median daily rate £450 £498 £470
% change year-on-year -9.55% +5.85% -18.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 246 301 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.36% 16.09% 19.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 194 240
10th Percentile £254 £218 £212
25th Percentile £350 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £416
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.10% -3.20%
75th Percentile £570 £635 £589
90th Percentile £650 £725 £731
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 9
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.40 £16.70
25th Percentile £24.50 £13.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +54.29%
75th Percentile £37.38 £18.88 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.70 £21.80 £29.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +69.23%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Wireshark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the West Midlands

Wireshark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in the West Midlands

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the West Midlands

Wireshark
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Birmingham +11 7 £462 - 2
Warwickshire - 7 £475 - 7
Herefordshire - 2 £525 -
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Akamai
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) Firewall
2 9 (56.25%) WAN
3 6 (37.50%) LAN
4 5 (31.25%) Network Security
4 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
4 5 (31.25%) Wireless
5 4 (25.00%) BGP
5 4 (25.00%) EIGRP
5 4 (25.00%) OSPF
5 4 (25.00%) VLAN
6 3 (18.75%) DHCP
6 3 (18.75%) DNS
7 2 (12.50%) DMVPN
7 2 (12.50%) Ethereal
7 2 (12.50%) IPsec
7 2 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (12.50%) Unified Communications
7 2 (12.50%) VPN
7 2 (12.50%) Wireless Security
8 1 (6.25%) Internet
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Network Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Security Posture
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Application Security
1 5 (31.25%) DevSecOps
1 5 (31.25%) Ethical Hacking
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
2 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (25.00%) High Availability
2 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (25.00%) Remote Testing
2 4 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) OWASP
3 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
4 2 (12.50%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) CCNP
1 7 (43.75%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CCIE
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (6.25%) CCNA
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) JNCIA
4 1 (6.25%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) Def Stans
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) CSIRT
2 4 (25.00%) HP ALM
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) OpenView
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Cisco
2 8 (50.00%) F5
3 5 (31.25%) SolarWinds
3 5 (31.25%) Splunk
4 4 (25.00%) HP
4 4 (25.00%) Juniper
4 4 (25.00%) Micro Focus
4 4 (25.00%) Progress
5 3 (18.75%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.25%) Infoblox
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle
6 1 (6.25%) Zscaler