Wireshark Job Trends in the Midlands

Wireshark
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Wireshark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 259 213
Rank change year-on-year +41 -46 +125
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 3 7 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.054% 0.079% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.42% 0.67% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £58,000 £52,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,000 £62,750 -
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 706 1,044 985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.62% 11.74% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 490 430 820
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,590 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +4.05% -8.95%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £57,813
90th Percentile £72,250 £73,750 £68,819
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,050 £52,000
% change year-on-year -24.60% +2.02% -0.95%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Wireshark
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Wireshark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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 Midlands +39 3 £62,500 +8.70% 6
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) IPsec
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Control
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Dell
1 3 (100.00%) Meraki
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Zscaler