tcpdump
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for tcpdump skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited tcpdump over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 877 923 1149
Rank change year-on-year +46 +226 -275
Permanent jobs citing tcpdump 19 47 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.045% 0.054%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.14% 0.29% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 33
10th Percentile £48,750 - £31,250
25th Percentile £60,625 £51,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £52,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% +11.70% +4.44%
75th Percentile £81,188 £56,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £86,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +38.46% +85.71% -17.16%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

tcpdump is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing tcpdump as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for tcpdump in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing tcpdump.

Salary trend for tcpdump in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing tcpdump over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for tcpdump in the UK

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Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing tcpdump within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +86 19 £77,500 +47.62% 6
Work from Home +79 16 £77,500 +47.62% 1
London +130 15 £77,500 +47.62% 2
UK excluding London -11 4 £90,000 +38.46% 4
North of England +53 3 - - 3
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
South East +18 1 £90,000 -
North West +12 1 - - 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) Amazon S3
2 10 (52.63%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (89.47%) TCP/IP
2 14 (73.68%) Firewall
3 13 (68.42%) DNS
4 12 (63.16%) Internet
5 11 (57.89%) SNMP
6 9 (47.37%) Wireshark
7 6 (31.58%) VPN
8 4 (21.05%) BGP
8 4 (21.05%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (21.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (21.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (21.05%) MPLS
8 4 (21.05%) OSPF
8 4 (21.05%) Unified Communications
8 4 (21.05%) VXLAN
9 3 (15.79%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (15.79%) Network Security
10 2 (10.53%) DMZ
10 2 (10.53%) HTTP
10 2 (10.53%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (52.63%) MongoDB
1 10 (52.63%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (78.95%) Telecoms
2 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
3 12 (63.16%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (26.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Senior
2 10 (52.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) Senior DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 9 (47.37%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 9 (47.37%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (47.37%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 9 (47.37%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Network Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Core Network Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Network Operations Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Senior Core Network Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Analyst
6 3 (15.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (10.53%) Linux Specialist
7 2 (10.53%) Senior Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (52.63%) YAML
2 1 (5.26%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Clustering
2 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
3 4 (21.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.26%) CSOC
5 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Linux
2 11 (57.89%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (73.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (52.63%) Agile
4 10 (52.63%) Business Continuity
4 10 (52.63%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
4 10 (52.63%) Code Quality
4 10 (52.63%) Containerisation
4 10 (52.63%) Continuous Deployment
4 10 (52.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 10 (52.63%) DevOps
4 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (52.63%) High Availability
4 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (52.63%) Migration
4 10 (52.63%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (52.63%) Security Hardening
4 10 (52.63%) Test Automation
4 10 (52.63%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) Bash
2 10 (52.63%) Perl
2 10 (52.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (10.53%) CASP
2 2 (10.53%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (10.53%) CREST Certified
2 2 (10.53%) Linux+ Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) CEH
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) GCIA
3 1 (5.26%) GCIH
3 1 (5.26%) GSEC
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) NIST
1 4 (21.05%) SLA
2 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
1 10 (52.63%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.26%) Snort
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Ansible
2 10 (52.63%) Grafana
2 10 (52.63%) Graphite
2 10 (52.63%) HAProxy
2 10 (52.63%) Nagios
2 10 (52.63%) Puppet
2 10 (52.63%) Terraform
2 10 (52.63%) vCenter Server
3 2 (10.53%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (5.26%) Nmap
4 1 (5.26%) OpenNMS
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) F5
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk