Wireshark Contracts in the Thames Valley

Wireshark
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 140 161
Rank change year-on-year +19 +21 -33
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 11 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.42% 0.35% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.05% 2.04% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £476 £369
25th Percentile £275 £488 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +2.50% +32.89%
75th Percentile £325 £519 £600
90th Percentile - - £623
South East median daily rate £300 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -38.46% -2.50% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 537 490 647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.33% 17.11% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 291 364
10th Percentile £205 £280 £211
25th Percentile £350 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £478
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +2.20% +19.38%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £561
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £486 £453
% change year-on-year +2.83% +7.34% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 20
10th Percentile £16.73 £18.50 £12.23
25th Percentile £22.58 £19.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +332.79% -46.96%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.00 £25.15
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -49.41%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Wireshark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Wireshark in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire -1 9 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +27 2 £300 - 1
Wireshark
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) 3G
1 6 (54.55%) 4G
1 6 (54.55%) 5G
1 6 (54.55%) Diameter Protocol
1 6 (54.55%) DNS
1 6 (54.55%) GGSN
1 6 (54.55%) LTE
1 6 (54.55%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (54.55%) RANAP
1 6 (54.55%) SGSN
1 6 (54.55%) VoLTE
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
3 2 (18.18%) tcpdump
3 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Multimedia
2 6 (54.55%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Computer Science
1 6 (54.55%) Customer Experience
1 6 (54.55%) Network Architecture
1 6 (54.55%) Performance Improvement
1 6 (54.55%) Statistics
2 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.09%) Change Control
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) CCNA
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Empirix
1 6 (54.55%) NetScout
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
3 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki