tcpdump
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring tcpdump skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited tcpdump over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 877 946
Rank change year-on-year +188 +69 +176
Permanent jobs citing tcpdump 3 19 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.019% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.043% 0.14% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 16
10th Percentile £42,000 £48,750 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £60,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £77,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +47.62% +11.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,188 £56,563
90th Percentile £83,000 £81,250 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - £90,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +38.46% +85.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,964 13,635 16,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.38% 13.84% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,270 9,518 8,181
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,063 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -

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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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for tcpdump in the UK

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Top 5 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 1 May 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
England +158 3 £62,500 -19.35% 11
UK excluding London +206 1 - - 3
London +96 1 £85,000 +9.68% 8
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (33.33%) GDB
2 1 (33.33%) WinDbg
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) libvirt
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) CodeQL
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Postgraduate
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft