Wireshark Contracts in England

Wireshark
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Wireshark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Wireshark over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 546 708
Rank change year-on-year +81 +162 -154
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 72 101 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.50% 1.71% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 64 39
10th Percentile £300 £263 £382
25th Percentile £413 £394 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.91%
75th Percentile £625 £900 £613
90th Percentile £669 - £650
UK median daily rate £544 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +8.75% -4.76% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - £62.75 -
25th Percentile - £65.19 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% +32.06%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile - £77.63 £73.82
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% +32.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,790 5,906 7,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.14% 12.27% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 3,863 5,177
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £394 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.05%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 423 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.90
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.01 £48.45
90th Percentile £70.13 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +13.64%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in England.

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in England.

Hourly rate trend for Wireshark in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +51 20 £550 -38.89% 14
South West 0 14 £488 +21.88% 4
South East +15 12 £300 -40.00% 5
East of England +19 10 £550 +41.94% 1
North of England +23 9 £515 +58.46% 4
Midlands +35 6 £550 -8.33% 2
Yorkshire +17 5 £515 +14.44% 2
West Midlands +28 4 £550 -8.33% 2
North West +9 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - -
Wireshark
UK

Wireshark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.94%) IIS
1 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.56%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.39%) Confluence
3 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (6.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.78%) Azure
2 5 (6.94%) Akamai
2 5 (6.94%) AWS
2 5 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (6.94%) Cloudflare
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (1.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
2 23 (31.94%) TCP/IP
3 22 (30.56%) DNS
4 19 (26.39%) 4G
5 18 (25.00%) LTE
5 18 (25.00%) Wireless
6 16 (22.22%) Firewall
7 12 (16.67%) 3GPP
7 12 (16.67%) WAN
8 11 (15.28%) 5G
8 11 (15.28%) DHCP
8 11 (15.28%) LAN
8 11 (15.28%) MPLS
8 11 (15.28%) Network Security
9 10 (13.89%) Cisco Nexus
9 10 (13.89%) tcpdump
10 9 (12.50%) SNMP
10 9 (12.50%) VPN
11 8 (11.11%) HTTP
12 7 (9.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.39%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Fiddler
1 5 (6.94%) JIRA
2 4 (5.56%) gcov
2 4 (5.56%) GDB
2 4 (5.56%) Git
2 4 (5.56%) Gradle
2 4 (5.56%) Subversion
3 3 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.39%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 28 (38.89%) Telecoms
2 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Multimedia
4 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Finance
7 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) Network Engineer
2 9 (12.50%) Architect
3 6 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Administrator
4 5 (6.94%) Network Support
4 5 (6.94%) Network Support Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) SharePoint Administrator
5 4 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Analyst
5 4 (5.56%) C++ Developer
5 4 (5.56%) Developer
5 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Telephony Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Unix Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) .NET
1 5 (6.94%) .NET Framework
1 5 (6.94%) SAML
2 4 (5.56%) LDAP
3 2 (2.78%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.39%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.17%) Clustering
2 3 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.39%) Derivative
4 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.39%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Linux
2 9 (12.50%) Windows
3 6 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (1.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 15 (20.83%) High Availability
3 14 (19.44%) Load Balancing
4 12 (16.67%) Network Design
4 12 (16.67%) Project Management
5 8 (11.11%) DevOps
6 7 (9.72%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (8.33%) Customer Experience
7 6 (8.33%) Integration Testing
7 6 (8.33%) Network Architecture
7 6 (8.33%) Performance Improvement
7 6 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.33%) Statistics
8 5 (6.94%) Migration
8 5 (6.94%) RAD
8 5 (6.94%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (6.94%) SIEM
9 4 (5.56%) ITIL
9 4 (5.56%) Network Virtualisation
9 4 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) Python
2 5 (6.94%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.56%) C
3 4 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (22.22%) Degree
3 11 (15.28%) CCNA
3 11 (15.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (13.89%) CCNP
5 4 (5.56%) CCIE
5 4 (5.56%) VCAP
6 3 (4.17%) CCDP
7 1 (1.39%) CCSP
7 1 (1.39%) CEH
7 1 (1.39%) CHFI
7 1 (1.39%) CISSP
7 1 (1.39%) GCED
7 1 (1.39%) GCFA
7 1 (1.39%) GCIA
7 1 (1.39%) GCIH
7 1 (1.39%) GIAC
7 1 (1.39%) GPEN
7 1 (1.39%) GSNA
7 1 (1.39%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.56%) Samba
2 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.39%) Docker
3 1 (1.39%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Nmap
2 5 (6.94%) OpenView
2 5 (6.94%) SCOM
2 5 (6.94%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (5.56%) Kibana
3 4 (5.56%) Nessus
4 2 (2.78%) Ansible
4 2 (2.78%) OpenNMS
5 1 (1.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.39%) CSIRT
5 1 (1.39%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.39%) Iperf
5 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.39%) QRadar
Vendors
1 17 (23.61%) Cisco
2 12 (16.67%) Actix
2 12 (16.67%) Ericsson
2 12 (16.67%) Huawei
2 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.67%) Nokia
3 10 (13.89%) F5
4 9 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 6 (8.33%) CheckPoint
5 6 (8.33%) Empirix
5 6 (8.33%) Meraki
5 6 (8.33%) NetScout
5 6 (8.33%) Splunk
6 4 (5.56%) Arista
6 4 (5.56%) Klocwork
6 4 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (5.56%) Perforce
6 4 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.56%) VMware
7 3 (4.17%) Zscaler