Wireshark Job Trends in the North East

Wireshark
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Wireshark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 85 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 -
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 1 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.097% 0.43% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.79% 4.12% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36,939
25th Percentile £46,446 - £37,223
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 - £39,157
75th Percentile £50,443 - £40,801
90th Percentile - - £40,911
England median annual salary £65,000 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.93% -2.27% -12.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 127 97 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.33% 10.43% 19.54%
Number of salaries quoted 107 50 135
10th Percentile £21,620 £35,250 £28,163
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £33,250 £67,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £74,730 £81,000
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 the North East

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

Wireshark job vacancy trend in the North East

Wireshark
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Wireshark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear +5 1 £48,445 - 2
Wireshark
England

Wireshark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Network Operations Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout