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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 404 441
Rank change year-on-year +20 +37 +177
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 9 14 39
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.056% 0.099% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.47% 0.84% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 34
10th Percentile £64,000 £56,595 £48,750
25th Percentile £64,375 £63,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 - £73,750
90th Percentile £77,000 - £83,500
England median annual salary £48,445 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.65% -18.18% -8.33%

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 1,921 1,662 2,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.86% 11.78% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 964 995 2,127
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £67,500 £63,264
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +6.70% +1.22%
75th Percentile £85,313 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -23.64% +12.24% -4.99%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Wireshark relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Wireshark job vacancy trend 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
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 9 (100.00%) WAN
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
3 7 (77.78%) Wireless
4 6 (66.67%) LAN
5 3 (33.33%) BGP
5 3 (33.33%) OSPF
5 3 (33.33%) VPN
5 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (22.22%) EIGRP
6 2 (22.22%) IPsec
6 2 (22.22%) Network Security
6 2 (22.22%) Plixer Scrutinizer
6 2 (22.22%) SSL
6 2 (22.22%) VoIP
7 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
7 1 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (11.11%) SSH
7 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Network Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Network Support
2 1 (11.11%) Network Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Data Centre
1 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (55.56%) Asset Management
2 5 (55.56%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (55.56%) Change Management
2 5 (55.56%) Coaching
2 5 (55.56%) Customer Service
2 5 (55.56%) Load Balancing
2 5 (55.56%) Network Planning
2 5 (55.56%) Network Virtualisation
2 5 (55.56%) Problem Management
3 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Network Design
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) AI
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCIE
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
1 8 (88.89%) SolarWinds
2 7 (77.78%) Palo Alto
3 6 (66.67%) Meraki
4 5 (55.56%) CheckPoint
5 2 (22.22%) Arista
5 2 (22.22%) Brocade