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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 403 419
Rank change year-on-year +54 +16 +224
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 26 18 38
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.51% 0.91% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 17 11 34
10th Percentile £64,500 £58,750 £44,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,125 £78,438
90th Percentile £94,000 £75,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -4.55% -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 1,717 1,977 2,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.34% 12.77% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 909 1,099 1,790
10th Percentile £28,697 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £103,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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

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Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireshark in London

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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 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) Firewall
1 14 (53.85%) SD-WAN
1 14 (53.85%) WAN
2 12 (46.15%) Wireless
3 11 (42.31%) LAN
4 9 (34.62%) VPN
5 6 (23.08%) BGP
5 6 (23.08%) OSPF
6 4 (15.38%) EIGRP
6 4 (15.38%) SSL
7 3 (11.54%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (7.69%) BIG-IP
8 2 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (7.69%) IPsec
8 2 (7.69%) Network Security
8 2 (7.69%) Plixer Scrutinizer
8 2 (7.69%) VoIP
8 2 (7.69%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 9 (34.62%) Telecoms
3 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Forensic Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Incident Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Information Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Information Security Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Network Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Network Support
3 4 (15.38%) Network Support Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Security Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Support Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms Test Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 9 (34.62%) Data Centre
3 8 (30.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Linux
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 6 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 10 (38.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 10 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (38.46%) Load Balancing
2 10 (38.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 10 (38.46%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (38.46%) Security Monitoring
2 10 (38.46%) SIEM
2 10 (38.46%) Threat Detection
2 10 (38.46%) Threat Intelligence
2 10 (38.46%) Use Case
2 10 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (34.62%) Data Loss Prevention
4 8 (30.77%) Asset Management
4 8 (30.77%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (30.77%) Coaching
4 8 (30.77%) Customer Service
4 8 (30.77%) Forensic Analysis
4 8 (30.77%) Network Virtualisation
4 8 (30.77%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Bash
2 1 (3.85%) Go
2 1 (3.85%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) GCFA
1 10 (38.46%) GCIA
1 10 (38.46%) GCIH
2 5 (19.23%) CCNP
2 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (15.38%) CCIE
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) GIAC
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) CCA
5 1 (3.85%) CCNA
5 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) NIST
2 2 (7.69%) COBIT
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) QRadar
3 2 (7.69%) Suricata
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Nagios
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Cisco
2 14 (53.85%) SolarWinds
3 13 (50.00%) Palo Alto
4 9 (34.62%) Meraki
5 8 (30.77%) CheckPoint
6 5 (19.23%) Splunk
7 4 (15.38%) Arista
7 4 (15.38%) VMware
8 2 (7.69%) Aruba
8 2 (7.69%) Brocade
8 2 (7.69%) F5
9 1 (3.85%) ADVA
9 1 (3.85%) Juniper