Wireshark
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Wireshark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Wireshark over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 790 872 998
Rank change year-on-year +82 +126 -261
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 98 123 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.72% 0.78% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 67 73 166
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £61,875 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,535 15,801 20,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.65% 15.56% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,435 8,018 11,727
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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

Wireshark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Wireshark in the UK

Wireshark
Top 15 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 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +45 89 £55,000 +4.76% 25
UK excluding London -27 69 £45,000 -10.00% 20
Work from Home +28 35 £56,500 +7.62% 10
London +116 28 £55,000 - 12
Midlands +9 23 £37,500 +20.00%
West Midlands +17 15 £30,500 -2.40%
North of England +37 13 £56,500 +29.14% 4
South East +16 13 £42,500 -15.00% 3
Yorkshire - 9 £56,500 - 1
East Midlands -13 8 £37,500 -
South West -37 7 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 7 £57,500 -
North West -2 4 £57,500 +15.00% 2
East of England -4 4 £45,000 -37.50% 1
Wales - 2 £27,500 -

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 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) CMS
3 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.78%) Azure
2 34 (34.69%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (15.31%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 9 (9.18%) AWS
5 9 (9.18%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.04%) GitHub
7 1 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.02%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 48 (48.98%) TCP/IP
2 35 (35.71%) Firewall
3 29 (29.59%) LAN
3 29 (29.59%) WAN
4 22 (22.45%) Network Security
5 21 (21.43%) DNS
6 17 (17.35%) VLAN
6 17 (17.35%) VoIP
7 15 (15.31%) DHCP
8 14 (14.29%) BGP
8 14 (14.29%) OSPF
9 13 (13.27%) VPN
10 11 (11.22%) MPLS
10 11 (11.22%) SD-WAN
10 11 (11.22%) Wireless
11 10 (10.20%) tcpdump
12 8 (8.16%) 802.11
13 7 (7.14%) EIGRP
13 7 (7.14%) VRRP
13 7 (7.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Visual Studio
2 7 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.08%) Charles Proxy
3 4 (4.08%) IDA Disassembler
3 4 (4.08%) Metasploit
4 2 (2.04%) JIRA
5 1 (1.02%) AppScan
5 1 (1.02%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.02%) GCC
5 1 (1.02%) Git
5 1 (1.02%) Selenium
5 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.35%) Finance
3 11 (11.22%) Telecoms
4 9 (9.18%) Retail
5 6 (6.12%) Electronics
6 5 (5.10%) Law
7 4 (4.08%) Aviation
8 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.04%) Legal
10 1 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (19.39%) Senior
2 16 (16.33%) Analyst
2 16 (16.33%) Security Engineer
3 15 (15.31%) Lead
4 11 (11.22%) Information Security Engineer
4 11 (11.22%) Network Engineer
4 11 (11.22%) Software Engineer
4 11 (11.22%) Team Leader
5 10 (10.20%) Administrator
5 10 (10.20%) Systems Administrator
6 9 (9.18%) Network Administrator
7 8 (8.16%) IT Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Network Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) IT Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Operations Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Security Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Network Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.20%) Node.js
2 8 (8.16%) 802.1X
3 4 (4.08%) .NET
3 4 (4.08%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.08%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (4.08%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.08%) CSS
3 4 (4.08%) Django
3 4 (4.08%) HTML
3 4 (4.08%) JSON
3 4 (4.08%) Qt
3 4 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.08%) React
3 4 (4.08%) WebSockets
3 4 (4.08%) XML
3 4 (4.08%) ZeroMQ
4 2 (2.04%) MSMQ
5 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.02%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.02%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.45%) Management Information System
2 15 (15.31%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (12.24%) Data Centre
4 8 (8.16%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (7.14%) FMCG
6 6 (6.12%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (4.08%) Client/Server
7 4 (4.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (4.08%) Robotics
8 3 (3.06%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (2.04%) CCTV
9 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.02%) CSOC
10 1 (1.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (1.02%) Cyberattack
10 1 (1.02%) Housing Association
10 1 (1.02%) iPhone
10 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.02%) Smartcard
10 1 (1.02%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 34 (34.69%) Windows
2 33 (33.67%) Linux
3 15 (15.31%) Android
4 14 (14.29%) Apple iOS
5 6 (6.12%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (5.10%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.04%) CentOS
7 2 (2.04%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.04%) Unix
8 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.88%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (29.59%) Agile
3 26 (26.53%) SIEM
4 23 (23.47%) Security Operations
4 23 (23.47%) Vulnerability Management
5 22 (22.45%) Information Security
6 19 (19.39%) Ethical Hacking
7 18 (18.37%) Cryptography
7 18 (18.37%) Validation
8 17 (17.35%) Information Security Management
8 17 (17.35%) Network Design
8 17 (17.35%) Security Management
9 16 (16.33%) Cloud Security
9 16 (16.33%) Identity Access Management
10 15 (15.31%) Data Loss Prevention
11 14 (14.29%) Patch Management
11 14 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
11 14 (14.29%) Project Roadmap
11 14 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
11 14 (14.29%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (35.71%) Python
2 29 (29.59%) PowerShell
3 14 (14.29%) C
4 13 (13.27%) Bash
5 10 (10.20%) C++
6 7 (7.14%) Perl
7 4 (4.08%) Go
7 4 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.08%) R
7 4 (4.08%) SQL
8 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (39.80%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (25.51%) Degree
3 20 (20.41%) CEH
4 19 (19.39%) CCNP
5 18 (18.37%) CCNA
6 17 (17.35%) CISSP
7 16 (16.33%) SANS
8 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
8 15 (15.31%) SSCP
9 14 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 14 (14.29%) CCSP
10 10 (10.20%) DV Cleared
11 8 (8.16%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (8.16%) OSCP
12 7 (7.14%) CCDP
12 7 (7.14%) CCIE
12 7 (7.14%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 7 (7.14%) MCSE
12 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (6.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (21.43%) PCI DSS
3 18 (18.37%) NIST
4 10 (10.20%) QA
5 6 (6.12%) GDPR
5 6 (6.12%) GRC
5 6 (6.12%) JTAG
5 6 (6.12%) NCSC
6 4 (4.08%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (15.31%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 13 (13.27%) Firmware
4 10 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (6.12%) Docker
6 2 (2.04%) KVM
6 2 (2.04%) vSphere
7 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.02%) Snort
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (16.33%) Nmap
2 15 (15.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (8.16%) CSIRT
4 4 (4.08%) Nessus
5 3 (3.06%) Ansible
5 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.04%) Grafana
6 2 (2.04%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (2.04%) Nagios
6 2 (2.04%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.04%) Puppet
7 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.02%) Icinga
7 1 (1.02%) Iperf
7 1 (1.02%) OpenNMS
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.02%) Sysdig
7 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (31.63%) Microsoft
2 24 (24.49%) Cisco
3 20 (20.41%) Qualys
4 17 (17.35%) Splunk
5 14 (14.29%) Rapid7
5 14 (14.29%) Thycotic
6 11 (11.22%) VMware
7 9 (9.18%) Veeam
8 7 (7.14%) Ekahau
9 6 (6.12%) F5
9 6 (6.12%) Red Hat
10 4 (4.08%) Palo Alto
11 3 (3.06%) Juniper
12 2 (2.04%) Riverbed
12 2 (2.04%) Ruckus Wireless
12 2 (2.04%) SolarWinds
13 1 (1.02%) Meraki
13 1 (1.02%) SaltStack
13 1 (1.02%) Supermicro
13 1 (1.02%) Trustwave