Wireshark Jobs

Wireshark
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Wireshark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Wireshark over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 801 776
Rank change year-on-year +111 -25 +193
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 45 98 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.095% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 0.75% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 32 68 70
10th Percentile £37,000 £33,750 £36,125
25th Percentile £41,188 £39,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £103,375 £100,375 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,011 13,110 13,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.99% 12.66% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,712 8,816 7,641
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £47,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -7.50% -2.19%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £86,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% -2.22% -5.26%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the UK

Wireshark
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Wireshark in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Wireshark in the UK

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Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the UK over the 6 months to 12 July 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 +104 42 £50,000 -14.89% 64
UK excluding London +111 22 £42,500 -10.53% 48
London +83 22 £83,750 +24.07% 24
Work from Home +86 17 £55,000 +4.76% 51
South East +75 12 £37,500 -14.29% 18
South West +93 3 £45,000 -25.00% 4
Northern Ireland +37 3 - - 1
East of England +35 3 £40,000 -11.11% 4
West Midlands +58 1 - - 6
Midlands +56 1 - - 9

Wireshark
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.67%) nginx
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) AWS
1 15 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (13.33%) GCP
3 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.44%) Akamai
7 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (66.67%) Firewall
2 14 (31.11%) DNS
3 13 (28.89%) VLAN
3 13 (28.89%) WAN
4 12 (26.67%) DHCP
4 12 (26.67%) Wireless
5 11 (24.44%) LAN
5 11 (24.44%) VoIP
5 11 (24.44%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (17.78%) BGP
6 8 (17.78%) OSPF
6 8 (17.78%) TCP/IP
6 8 (17.78%) VPN
7 7 (15.56%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (15.56%) Internet
7 7 (15.56%) SNMP
8 6 (13.33%) SD-WAN
8 6 (13.33%) WLAN
9 5 (11.11%) EIGRP
9 5 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Burp Suite
2 3 (6.67%) AppScan
2 3 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) GitLab
2 3 (6.67%) Metasploit
3 2 (4.44%) IDA Disassembler
3 2 (4.44%) Postman
4 1 (2.22%) Fiddler
4 1 (2.22%) GDB
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) WinDbg
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.89%) Finance
3 10 (22.22%) Telecoms
4 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Banking
6 3 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.67%) Legal
6 3 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (4.44%) Local Government
8 1 (2.22%) Electronics
8 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.22%) Marketing
8 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Senior
2 14 (31.11%) Network Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (8.89%) 3rd Line Support Technician
5 4 (8.89%) Products Support Technician
5 4 (8.89%) Support Technician
6 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Information Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Information Security Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Network Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Security Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) Node.js
2 4 (8.89%) 802.1X
2 4 (8.89%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.44%) CSS
3 2 (4.44%) CSS3
3 2 (4.44%) HTML
3 2 (4.44%) HTML5
3 2 (4.44%) RESTful
3 2 (4.44%) SAML
4 1 (2.22%) libvirt
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.22%) OAuth
4 1 (2.22%) OpenID
4 1 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.44%) PKI
5 1 (2.22%) Clustering
5 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.22%) Replication
5 1 (2.22%) Smartcard
5 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Windows
2 10 (22.22%) Linux
3 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.67%) Kali Linux
4 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.22%) CentOS
6 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 8 (17.78%) Business Continuity
5 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
5 8 (17.78%) Incident Response
5 8 (17.78%) ITIL
6 7 (15.56%) Information Security
6 7 (15.56%) Network Management
6 7 (15.56%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
7 6 (13.33%) Server Management
8 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (11.11%) Observability
8 5 (11.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) Python
2 3 (6.67%) Bash
2 3 (6.67%) C#
2 3 (6.67%) C++
2 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.67%) PHP
2 3 (6.67%) R
3 2 (4.44%) Java
3 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
3 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
3 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.22%) C
4 1 (2.22%) CodeQL
4 1 (2.22%) Go
4 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (31.11%) Degree
2 10 (22.22%) CCNP
3 8 (17.78%) Azure Certification
3 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (11.11%) CCNA
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
7 4 (8.89%) MCSA
7 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
8 3 (6.67%) CISSP
8 3 (6.67%) GCFA
8 3 (6.67%) GCIA
8 3 (6.67%) GCIH
8 3 (6.67%) GIAC
8 3 (6.67%) GPEN
8 3 (6.67%) GWAPT
8 3 (6.67%) MCP
8 3 (6.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.56%) Firmware
2 7 (15.56%) Hyper-V
3 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (13.33%) Docker
4 1 (2.22%) vSphere
4 1 (2.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Ansible
2 5 (11.11%) Grafana
2 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 5 (11.11%) Terraform
3 4 (8.89%) Nessus
4 3 (6.67%) FortiGate
4 3 (6.67%) HAProxy
4 3 (6.67%) Iperf
4 3 (6.67%) Istio
4 3 (6.67%) linkerd
5 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.22%) WMI
5 1 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (55.56%) Cisco
2 16 (35.56%) Fortinet
3 12 (26.67%) SolarWinds
4 11 (24.44%) VMware
5 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 9 (20.00%) Meraki
7 8 (17.78%) Aruba
7 8 (17.78%) F5
7 8 (17.78%) Ruckus Wireless
8 7 (15.56%) HP
8 7 (15.56%) Juniper
9 5 (11.11%) Google
10 4 (8.89%) CheckPoint
10 4 (8.89%) Infoblox
10 4 (8.89%) Palo Alto
11 3 (6.67%) Riverbed
11 3 (6.67%) SonicWALL
11 3 (6.67%) Splunk
11 3 (6.67%) Trustwave
12 2 (4.44%) Zscaler