Wireshark Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Wireshark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 293 326 409
Rank change year-on-year +33 +83 +174
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 11 19 68
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.12% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.05% 1.18% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 44
10th Percentile £483 - £400
25th Percentile £494 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £775
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -34.19% +47.62%
75th Percentile £574 £588 £900
90th Percentile £596 £658 -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -18.18% +7.32% -2.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Wireshark
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Wireshark trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Wireshark
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Wireshark daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Wireshark
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Datadog
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) VXLAN
3 2 (18.18%) BIG-IP
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security
3 2 (18.18%) NGFW
3 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (9.09%) BGP
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
4 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (9.09%) LAN
4 1 (9.09%) NetScaler
4 1 (9.09%) OSPF
4 1 (9.09%) RIP
4 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Burp Suite
1 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JMeter
1 1 (9.09%) JProfiler
1 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
1 1 (9.09%) Metasploit
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (9.09%) Toad
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Operations Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) ITSM
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Offensive Security
4 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Groovy
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (9.09%) CCIE
4 1 (9.09%) CEH
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) CASB
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco LMS
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Nessus
3 1 (9.09%) Nmap
3 1 (9.09%) Perfmon
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (9.09%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) F5
1 4 (36.36%) NetScout
2 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
2 3 (27.27%) Splunk
3 2 (18.18%) Arista
3 2 (18.18%) Aruba
3 2 (18.18%) Blue Coat
3 2 (18.18%) BMC
3 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
4 1 (9.09%) Ivanti
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds