Hybrid/Remote Wireshark Contract Job Trends

Wireshark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Wireshark skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 310 390
Rank change year-on-year +31 +80 +108
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 25 25 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.44% 1.82% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 14
10th Percentile £204 £400 £366
25th Percentile £325 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £456
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +4.11% -17.05%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £598
90th Percentile £650 £588 £1,045
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £466
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.60% -15.23%

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 1,026 1,370 2,499
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.47% 10.78% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 861 1,664
10th Percentile £293 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £706
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 85
10th Percentile £21.25 £13.81 £17.78
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £46.78 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.74% -6.44% -15.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.52 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £87.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.84% -10.60% +37.73%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Wireshark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Wireshark daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) GCP
3 6 (24.00%) Akamai
4 2 (8.00%) Azure
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (64.00%) Firewall
2 9 (36.00%) BGP
2 9 (36.00%) OSPF
3 8 (32.00%) MPLS
3 8 (32.00%) VLAN
4 6 (24.00%) DNS
5 5 (20.00%) 3GPP
5 5 (20.00%) 4G
5 5 (20.00%) 5G
5 5 (20.00%) DHCP
5 5 (20.00%) IPsec
5 5 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (16.00%) FTP
6 4 (16.00%) HTTP
6 4 (16.00%) LAN
6 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
6 4 (16.00%) VPN
6 4 (16.00%) WAN
7 3 (12.00%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (12.00%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Metasploit
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Technical Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Technical Support
2 4 (16.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Test Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Designer
3 3 (12.00%) Network Designer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Validation Tester
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) REST
1 4 (16.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 5 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Unix
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (24.00%) Application Security
3 6 (24.00%) DevSecOps
3 6 (24.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Escalation Management
5 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (16.00%) OO
5 4 (16.00%) OOP
5 4 (16.00%) OWASP
5 4 (16.00%) Remote Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Java
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) CCIE
2 2 (8.00%) CCNP
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) CSIRT
2 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 4 (16.00%) HP ALM
3 3 (12.00%) Iperf
3 3 (12.00%) Nmap
4 1 (4.00%) Nessus
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Splunk
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) F5
3 5 (20.00%) Dell
4 4 (16.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (16.00%) Fortinet
4 4 (16.00%) HP
4 4 (16.00%) Micro Focus
4 4 (16.00%) Palo Alto
4 4 (16.00%) Progress
5 3 (12.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.00%) Blue Coat
6 1 (4.00%) Intel
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.00%) NetScout
6 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.00%) Tenable
6 1 (4.00%) Zscaler