Wireshark Job Trends in London

Wireshark
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Wireshark skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 435 470
Rank change year-on-year +76 +35 +315
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 35 29 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.15% 0.099%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.81% 1.09% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 25 25 20
10th Percentile £62,500 £39,750 £47,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +27.27% -33.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,750 £136,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.68% -3.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

Wireshark falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,244 2,670 2,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.43% 13.92% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 857 1,265 2,220
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,559
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +3.90% +0.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,600 £100,000
England median annual salary £41,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -18.00% -3.85% -0.95%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Wireshark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in London

Wireshark
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Wireshark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Wireshark in London

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Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the London region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +37 1 £85,000 -24.44% 1
West London - 1 - -
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.71%) nginx
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) Akamai
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (60.00%) Firewall
2 12 (34.29%) WAN
3 11 (31.43%) LAN
3 11 (31.43%) SD-WAN
3 11 (31.43%) Wireless
4 10 (28.57%) VPN
5 9 (25.71%) BGP
6 8 (22.86%) OSPF
7 7 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (17.14%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (14.29%) BIG-IP
9 5 (14.29%) EIGRP
9 5 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 5 (14.29%) SNMP
9 5 (14.29%) WLAN
10 4 (11.43%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (11.43%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (8.57%) DNS
12 2 (5.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 25 (71.43%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Electronics
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Network Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Senior
3 8 (22.86%) Analyst
3 8 (22.86%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Forensic Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Incident Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Information Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Information Security Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Network Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Network Support
4 4 (11.43%) Network Support Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Security Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Network Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.86%) CSS
1 1 (2.86%) CSS3
1 1 (2.86%) HTML
1 1 (2.86%) HTML5
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (2.86%) Node.js
1 1 (2.86%) OAuth
1 1 (2.86%) OpenID
1 1 (2.86%) RESTful
1 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.86%) PKI
5 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Windows
2 10 (28.57%) Linux
3 6 (17.14%) Unix
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Incident Response
2 12 (34.29%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (34.29%) Network Monitoring
3 11 (31.43%) Load Balancing
3 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (31.43%) SIEM
4 10 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 10 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 10 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
4 10 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 10 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
4 10 (28.57%) Use Case
4 10 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 9 (25.71%) Data Loss Prevention
5 9 (25.71%) Forensic Analysis
6 8 (22.86%) Process Improvement
7 7 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (17.14%) Threat Modelling
8 6 (17.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 5 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) Bash
2 2 (5.71%) Go
3 1 (2.86%) C#
3 1 (2.86%) C++
3 1 (2.86%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.86%) PHP
3 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.86%) PromQL
3 1 (2.86%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) GCFA
1 10 (28.57%) GCIA
1 10 (28.57%) GCIH
2 4 (11.43%) CCIE
2 4 (11.43%) CCNP
2 4 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (11.43%) GIAC
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CCA
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) NIST
2 2 (5.71%) COBIT
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.43%) Firmware
3 3 (8.57%) Docker
4 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Ansible
2 6 (17.14%) Terraform
3 4 (11.43%) Grafana
3 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
3 4 (11.43%) QRadar
4 3 (8.57%) FortiGate
4 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.71%) HAProxy
5 2 (5.71%) Istio
5 2 (5.71%) linkerd
5 2 (5.71%) Suricata
6 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.86%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (2.86%) Nagios
6 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (54.29%) Cisco
2 18 (51.43%) SolarWinds
3 11 (31.43%) Palo Alto
4 9 (25.71%) CheckPoint
4 9 (25.71%) F5
4 9 (25.71%) Meraki
5 7 (20.00%) Splunk
6 6 (17.14%) Fortinet
6 6 (17.14%) VMware
7 5 (14.29%) Aruba
8 4 (11.43%) Infoblox
9 3 (8.57%) Arista
9 3 (8.57%) Google
9 3 (8.57%) Juniper
10 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.86%) ADVA
11 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
11 1 (2.86%) SAP