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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 418 425
Rank change year-on-year +65 +7 +239
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 34 22 28
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.19% 1.03% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 21 15 25
10th Percentile £62,500 £63,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +33.33% -19.23%
75th Percentile £88,750 £116,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £118,750 £115,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +15.38% -16.80%

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 1,549 2,135 2,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.80% 12.16% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 876 1,209 1,930
10th Percentile £28,697 £36,450 £33,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £47,500 £45,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,500 £51,934
% change year-on-year -25.23% +3.01% -1.08%

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
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in London over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Wireshark in London

Wireshark
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 28 November 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
West London - 1 - -
Wireshark
England

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Akamai
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (58.82%) Firewall
2 18 (52.94%) WAN
3 17 (50.00%) SD-WAN
4 16 (47.06%) Wireless
5 14 (41.18%) LAN
6 12 (35.29%) VPN
7 11 (32.35%) BGP
8 10 (29.41%) OSPF
9 7 (20.59%) Cisco IOS
9 7 (20.59%) EIGRP
9 7 (20.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 5 (14.71%) BIG-IP
10 5 (14.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 5 (14.71%) SNMP
10 5 (14.71%) WLAN
11 4 (11.76%) SSL
12 3 (8.82%) Network Security
13 2 (5.88%) DNS
13 2 (5.88%) IPsec
13 2 (5.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Fiddler
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (64.71%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Telecoms
3 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics
6 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Analyst
3 7 (20.59%) Senior
4 6 (17.65%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Forensic Manager
5 4 (11.76%) Incident Manager
5 4 (11.76%) Information Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Information Security Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Network Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Network Support
5 4 (11.76%) Network Support Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Security Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 1 (2.94%) Automation Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (2.94%) OAuth
1 1 (2.94%) OpenID
1 1 (2.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 10 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 8 (23.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) PKI
4 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Windows
2 10 (29.41%) Linux
3 6 (17.65%) Unix
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Incident Response
2 14 (41.18%) Load Balancing
2 14 (41.18%) Network Monitoring
3 11 (32.35%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (29.41%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 10 (29.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 10 (29.41%) Security Monitoring
4 10 (29.41%) SIEM
4 10 (29.41%) Threat Detection
4 10 (29.41%) Threat Intelligence
4 10 (29.41%) Use Case
4 10 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
5 9 (26.47%) Capacity Planning
5 9 (26.47%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (23.53%) Asset Management
6 8 (23.53%) Coaching
6 8 (23.53%) Customer Service
6 8 (23.53%) Forensic Analysis
6 8 (23.53%) Network Virtualisation
6 8 (23.53%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) Bash
2 2 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.94%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) GCFA
1 10 (29.41%) GCIA
1 10 (29.41%) GCIH
2 6 (17.65%) CCIE
2 6 (17.65%) CCNP
2 6 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 4 (11.76%) GIAC
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.94%) CCA
6 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (38.24%) NIST
2 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.88%) COBIT
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) Terraform
3 4 (11.76%) QRadar
4 3 (8.82%) FortiGate
5 2 (5.88%) Grafana
5 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.88%) Suricata
6 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.94%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.94%) Istio
6 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.94%) linkerd
6 1 (2.94%) Nagios
6 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (61.76%) Cisco
2 19 (55.88%) SolarWinds
3 16 (47.06%) Palo Alto
4 9 (26.47%) Meraki
5 8 (23.53%) CheckPoint
5 8 (23.53%) F5
6 6 (17.65%) Splunk
7 5 (14.71%) Arista
7 5 (14.71%) Aruba
7 5 (14.71%) VMware
8 3 (8.82%) Juniper
9 2 (5.88%) Brocade
9 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.94%) ADVA
10 1 (2.94%) Google
10 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.94%) SAP