tcpdump Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

tcpdump
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring tcpdump skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited tcpdump over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 337 469
Rank change year-on-year +36 +132 +140
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 3 8 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.052% 0.031%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.50% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile - £505 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +13.33% -
75th Percentile - £524 £475
90th Percentile - £540 £580
UK median daily rate £475 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -6.86% -5.12% +19.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

tcpdump 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing tcpdump as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

tcpdump trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing tcpdump.

tcpdump daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) FTP
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
1 2 (66.67%) Telnet
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Server Migrations
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Offensive Security
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
1 2 (66.67%) Samba
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) yum
2 1 (33.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) VMware