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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 404 489
Rank change year-on-year -34 +85 +11
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 5 22 19
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.022% 0.13% 0.076%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 1.12% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3 21 15
10th Percentile £57,000 £37,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +36.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £103,000 £100,000 -
UK median annual salary £61,250 £71,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.04% +18.75% +20.00%

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 2,380 1,964 3,828
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.47% 11.82% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,318 1,199 2,013
10th Percentile £29,625 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £81,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -4.76%

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 13 August 2026.

Wireshark salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 2 (40.00%) VoIP
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) ATM
4 1 (20.00%) BGP
4 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) Frame Relay
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) Skype
4 1 (20.00%) SNMP
4 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Systems Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Sales Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
1 2 (40.00%) Network Management
1 2 (40.00%) PLM
1 2 (40.00%) Requirements Management
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
1 2 (40.00%) Verification and Validation
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNA
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) OpenView
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (40.00%) Veeam
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
4 1 (20.00%) EMC
4 1 (20.00%) ExtraHop
4 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Meraki
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Radware
4 1 (20.00%) Riverbed