Wireshark Job Trends in Manchester

Wireshark
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Wireshark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 - 215
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 3 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.053% - 0.079%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% - 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.20%
75th Percentile £50,250 - £58,750
90th Percentile £54,600 - -
North West median annual salary £48,445 £42,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.99% -26.09% +15.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 517 251 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.09% 11.24% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 211 128 444
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,375 £35,590
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,842 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
North West median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -5.26%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Wireshark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Wireshark

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Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Wireshark in Manchester

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) Mimecast
1 2 (66.67%) OneDrive
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) WPA
3 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Netskope
2 2 (66.67%) VMware