tcpdump Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for tcpdump skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited tcpdump over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 462 605
Rank change year-on-year +122 +143 -141
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 8 11 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.051% 0.042% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.47% 0.36% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 19
10th Percentile - £400 £400
25th Percentile £505 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £524 £650 £588
90th Percentile £540 - £628
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £468
% change year-on-year -5.12% +14.85% +10.12%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

tcpdump 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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,698 3,016 4,394
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.92% 11.45% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 2,019 2,985
10th Percentile £285 £350 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £609 £646 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 112 103
10th Percentile £12.75 £20.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £24.75 £60.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.75% +26.32% +15.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.06 £63.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.93 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing tcpdump as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

tcpdump trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
1 7 (87.50%) Wireshark
2 4 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (50.00%) SSL
2 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (37.50%) IPsec
3 3 (37.50%) Network Security
3 3 (37.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) French Language
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Remote Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) OLE
2 3 (37.50%) LDAP
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) LAMP
3 1 (12.50%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (12.50%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (50.00%) YARA
2 2 (25.00%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Incident Management
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (50.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) Use Case
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) Web Filtering
4 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) Snort
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 3 (37.50%) Zscaler
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft