Wireshark Contracts

Wireshark
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 578 721
Rank change year-on-year +75 +143 -111
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 76 106 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.40% 1.48% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 71 81
10th Percentile £301 £263 £400
25th Percentile £388 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £594 £648 £638
90th Percentile £638 £900 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +33.13% -11.11% +19.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile - £72.50 £54.26
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - +13.98% +32.06%
75th Percentile - £77.56 £69.20
90th Percentile - £77.68 £73.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year - +13.98% -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,169 9,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.59% 12.72% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,630 6,422
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 444 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -2.27%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireshark in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +69 67 £550 +10.00% 33
UK excluding London +54 51 £533 +33.13% 35
Work from Home +74 19 £510 -0.49% 15
London +70 17 £550 -31.25% 8
South West +8 13 - - 8
South East +10 12 £300 -38.46% 6
East of England +17 10 £550 +41.94% 1
North of England +25 9 £515 +58.46% 7
Midlands +30 6 £550 -8.33% 4
Yorkshire +25 5 £515 +14.44% 1
West Midlands +18 4 £550 -8.33% 4
North West +8 4 - - 6
East Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland +38 1 £310 -38.00% 8

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 5 (6.58%) IIS
1 5 (6.58%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.26%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (6.58%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.32%) Azure
2 5 (6.58%) Akamai
2 5 (6.58%) AWS
2 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (6.58%) Cloudflare
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (1.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (31.58%) Radio Access Network
2 22 (28.95%) Firewall
2 22 (28.95%) TCP/IP
3 20 (26.32%) DNS
4 19 (25.00%) 4G
5 18 (23.68%) LTE
5 18 (23.68%) Wireless
6 14 (18.42%) tcpdump
7 12 (15.79%) 3GPP
7 12 (15.79%) SNMP
7 12 (15.79%) WAN
8 11 (14.47%) 5G
8 11 (14.47%) DHCP
8 11 (14.47%) LAN
8 11 (14.47%) MPLS
8 11 (14.47%) Network Security
9 10 (13.16%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (11.84%) VPN
11 8 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (9.21%) Diameter Protocol
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.26%) Apache Hive
1 4 (5.26%) Hadoop
1 4 (5.26%) Tableau
2 3 (3.95%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) JIRA
2 5 (6.58%) Fiddler
3 4 (5.26%) gcov
3 4 (5.26%) GDB
3 4 (5.26%) Git
3 4 (5.26%) Gradle
3 4 (5.26%) IDA Disassembler
3 4 (5.26%) Subversion
4 3 (3.95%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (40.79%) Telecoms
2 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Multimedia
4 6 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.95%) Retail
7 2 (2.63%) Finance
8 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Legal
8 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 9 (11.84%) Architect
3 7 (9.21%) Support Engineer
4 6 (7.89%) Administrator
5 5 (6.58%) Network Support
5 5 (6.58%) Network Support Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) SharePoint Administrator
6 4 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) C++ Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Telephony Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Voice Architect
7 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Senior
7 3 (3.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) .NET
1 5 (6.58%) .NET Framework
1 5 (6.58%) LDAP
1 5 (6.58%) SAML
2 4 (5.26%) OLE
3 3 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.63%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (5.26%) YARA
3 3 (3.95%) Clustering
3 3 (3.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.63%) Shadow IT
5 1 (1.32%) Derivative
5 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.68%) Linux
2 13 (17.11%) Windows
3 4 (5.26%) Unix
4 1 (1.32%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) Computer Science
2 15 (19.74%) High Availability
3 14 (18.42%) Load Balancing
4 12 (15.79%) Network Design
4 12 (15.79%) Project Management
5 9 (11.84%) SIEM
6 8 (10.53%) Change Management
7 7 (9.21%) Customer Experience
7 7 (9.21%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (7.89%) DevOps
8 6 (7.89%) Integration Testing
8 6 (7.89%) Network Architecture
8 6 (7.89%) Performance Improvement
8 6 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (7.89%) Statistics
9 5 (6.58%) ITIL
9 5 (6.58%) Migration
9 5 (6.58%) Penetration Testing
9 5 (6.58%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.21%) Python
2 5 (6.58%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.26%) C
3 4 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (1.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (22.37%) Degree
3 11 (14.47%) CCNA
3 11 (14.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (13.16%) CCNP
5 4 (5.26%) CCIE
5 4 (5.26%) VCAP
6 3 (3.95%) CCDP
7 1 (1.32%) CCSP
7 1 (1.32%) CEH
7 1 (1.32%) CHFI
7 1 (1.32%) CISSP
7 1 (1.32%) GCED
7 1 (1.32%) GCFA
7 1 (1.32%) GCIA
7 1 (1.32%) GCIH
7 1 (1.32%) GIAC
7 1 (1.32%) GPEN
7 1 (1.32%) GSNA
7 1 (1.32%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) GDPR
1 4 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (11.84%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.26%) Snort
3 2 (2.63%) Samba
3 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) OpenView
2 7 (9.21%) Kibana
3 5 (6.58%) SCOM
3 5 (6.58%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.26%) Nmap
5 3 (3.95%) Ansible
5 3 (3.95%) Nagios
6 2 (2.63%) Nessus
6 2 (2.63%) OpenNMS
7 1 (1.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (1.32%) CSIRT
7 1 (1.32%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (1.32%) Iperf
7 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Cisco
2 12 (15.79%) Actix
2 12 (15.79%) Ericsson
2 12 (15.79%) Huawei
2 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.79%) Nokia
2 12 (15.79%) SolarWinds
3 10 (13.16%) F5
4 9 (11.84%) Splunk
5 6 (7.89%) Empirix
5 6 (7.89%) Meraki
5 6 (7.89%) NetScout
5 6 (7.89%) Zscaler
6 4 (5.26%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.26%) Google
6 4 (5.26%) Klocwork
6 4 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (5.26%) Perforce
7 3 (3.95%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.95%) Palo Alto