Hybrid/Remote Wireshark Job Trends

Wireshark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Wireshark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 410 550
Rank change year-on-year +13 +140 -6
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 21 10 34
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.10% 0.065% 0.098%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.95% 0.52% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 30
10th Percentile - £46,850 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,446 £47,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% -2.65% +7.62%
75th Percentile £62,500 £87,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £105,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.28% +3.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,217 1,917 5,139
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.08% 12.44% 14.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,126 1,150 3,319
10th Percentile £29,688 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,504 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -7.61% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,776 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £46,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -7.50%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Wireshark and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Wireshark job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Wireshark
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Wireshark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Wireshark

Wireshark
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Wireshark salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Wireshark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 15 (71.43%) AWS
2 15 (71.43%) OCI
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) Firewall
1 15 (71.43%) NGFW
1 15 (71.43%) VXLAN
1 15 (71.43%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (23.81%) VoIP
3 4 (19.05%) Unified Communications
4 3 (14.29%) HTTP
4 3 (14.29%) RTP
5 1 (4.76%) ATM
5 1 (4.76%) Frame Relay
5 1 (4.76%) LAN
5 1 (4.76%) MPLS
5 1 (4.76%) Skype
5 1 (4.76%) SNMP
5 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 3 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
General
1 16 (76.19%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (76.19%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Network Manager
1 15 (71.43%) Network Operations Manager
1 15 (71.43%) Operations Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Sales Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Django
1 3 (14.29%) Flask
1 3 (14.29%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (14.29%) Jinja
1 3 (14.29%) OAuth
1 3 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 3 (14.29%) pytest
1 3 (14.29%) REST
1 3 (14.29%) RFC 2833
1 3 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
1 3 (14.29%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (71.43%) Data Centre
1 15 (71.43%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 2 (9.52%) Windows
4 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (71.43%) Coaching
2 15 (71.43%) Creative Thinking
2 15 (71.43%) ITSM
2 15 (71.43%) Load Balancing
2 15 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 15 (71.43%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (14.29%) AI
3 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 3 (14.29%) OO
3 3 (14.29%) OOP
3 3 (14.29%) Open Source
3 3 (14.29%) Sentiment Analysis
3 3 (14.29%) Speech Recognition
4 1 (4.76%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (4.76%) Offensive Security
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (4.76%) Security Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) C
2 3 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) CCIE
1 1 (4.76%) CCNA
1 1 (4.76%) CCNP
1 1 (4.76%) CEH
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) GIAC
1 1 (4.76%) GREM
1 1 (4.76%) OSCP
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
1 3 (14.29%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 15 (71.43%) Ansible
1 15 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Argo
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 1 (4.76%) OpenView
3 1 (4.76%) QRadar
3 1 (4.76%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Arista
1 15 (71.43%) Aruba
1 15 (71.43%) NetScout
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) BT
3 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 3 (14.29%) Mitel
4 1 (4.76%) ArcSight
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.76%) EMC
4 1 (4.76%) ExtraHop
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) Radware
4 1 (4.76%) Riverbed
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk