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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 403 443
Rank change year-on-year +23 +40 +187
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 12 13 40
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.076% 0.089% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.63% 0.73% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 35
10th Percentile £64,250 £56,595 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 - £83,000
England median annual salary £48,445 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.65% -18.18% -12.00%

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 1,899 1,770 2,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.99% 12.18% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 963 1,019 2,111
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £67,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +5.47% +2.40%
75th Percentile £86,125 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £104,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.64% +10.00% -3.05%

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

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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 24 February 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 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) SD-WAN
1 10 (83.33%) WAN
2 9 (75.00%) Firewall
3 8 (66.67%) Wireless
4 7 (58.33%) LAN
5 4 (33.33%) VPN
6 3 (25.00%) BGP
6 3 (25.00%) OSPF
6 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
7 2 (16.67%) IPsec
7 2 (16.67%) Network Security
7 2 (16.67%) Plixer Scrutinizer
7 2 (16.67%) SSL
7 2 (16.67%) VoIP
8 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
8 1 (8.33%) FTP
8 1 (8.33%) SNMP
8 1 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
1 7 (58.33%) Telecoms
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Network Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Network Support
3 2 (16.67%) Network Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Forensic Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Information Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 6 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (50.00%) Change Management
2 6 (50.00%) Coaching
2 6 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 6 (50.00%) Network Planning
2 6 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 2 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (16.67%) Network Design
3 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CCNP
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CCIE
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) GCFA
2 2 (16.67%) GCIA
2 2 (16.67%) GCIH
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco
1 9 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 8 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 7 (58.33%) Meraki
4 6 (50.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (16.67%) Arista
5 2 (16.67%) Brocade
6 1 (8.33%) Splunk
6 1 (8.33%) VMware