tcpdump Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring tcpdump skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 - 556
Rank change year-on-year - - +239
Permanent jobs citing tcpdump 1 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% - 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.021% - 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £42,750
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £51,500
90th Percentile - - £70,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +31.82% -31.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

tcpdump 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,720 5,498 5,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.50% 11.49% 17.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,098 2,687 4,306
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing tcpdump relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

tcpdump job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing tcpdump.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing tcpdump

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing tcpdump within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Scotland - 1 £65,000 - 1
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ATM
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware