Wireshark Contracts in the UK excluding London

Wireshark
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Wireshark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireshark over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 376 460
Rank change year-on-year +28 +84 -62
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 53 54 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.61% 1.53% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 34 22
10th Percentile £428 £295 £301
25th Percentile £458 £375 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -5.56% +19.60%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £550
90th Percentile £657 £559 £588
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £72.50 £54.26
Median hourly rate £47.50 £75.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +13.98% +49.55%
75th Percentile £48.75 £77.56 £69.20
90th Percentile - £77.68 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £75.00 £65.80
% change year-on-year -36.67% +13.98% +38.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Wireshark falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

Wireshark
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Wireshark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Wireshark in the UK excluding London

Wireshark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Wireshark in the UK excluding London

Wireshark
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireshark in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wireshark in the UK excluding London

Wireshark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wireshark in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Wireshark in the UK excluding London

Wireshark
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +8 13 £470 -6.00% 6
South West 0 13 - - 11
North of England +14 10 £515 +58.46% 8
Midlands +24 8 £550 -8.33% 5
East of England +12 8 £550 +41.94% 1
West Midlands +23 6 £550 -8.33% 5
Yorkshire +18 5 £515 +14.44% 1
North West +8 5 - - 7
East Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland +46 1 £310 -38.00% 2
Wireshark
UK

Wireshark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (7.55%) IIS
1 4 (7.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.66%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) MS Visio
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.53%) Azure
2 5 (9.43%) Akamai
2 5 (9.43%) Cloudflare
3 4 (7.55%) AWS
3 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.55%) GCP
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (41.51%) Radio Access Network
2 21 (39.62%) 4G
3 20 (37.74%) Wireless
4 18 (33.96%) LTE
5 17 (32.08%) DNS
6 13 (24.53%) 5G
7 12 (22.64%) 3GPP
8 10 (18.87%) Firewall
8 10 (18.87%) TCP/IP
9 9 (16.98%) 3G
10 8 (15.09%) DHCP
10 8 (15.09%) LAN
10 8 (15.09%) WAN
11 7 (13.21%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (13.21%) Ethereal
11 7 (13.21%) Ethernet
12 6 (11.32%) GGSN
12 6 (11.32%) RANAP
12 6 (11.32%) SGSN
12 6 (11.32%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.89%) MySQL
1 1 (1.89%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) JIRA
2 4 (7.55%) Fiddler
2 4 (7.55%) gcov
2 4 (7.55%) GDB
2 4 (7.55%) Git
2 4 (7.55%) Gradle
2 4 (7.55%) Subversion
3 1 (1.89%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (1.89%) Metasploit
General
1 31 (58.49%) Telecoms
2 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Multimedia
4 6 (11.32%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Retail
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Finance
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Network Engineer
2 7 (13.21%) Network Support
2 7 (13.21%) Network Support Engineer
2 7 (13.21%) Support Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Administrator
4 5 (9.43%) Architect
5 4 (7.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) C++ Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Security Architect
5 4 (7.55%) SharePoint Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Designer
6 3 (5.66%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Test Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) .NET
1 4 (7.55%) .NET Framework
1 4 (7.55%) SAML
2 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.89%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.89%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Linux
2 7 (13.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Computer Science
2 12 (22.64%) High Availability
2 12 (22.64%) Network Design
2 12 (22.64%) Project Management
3 7 (13.21%) Customer Experience
4 6 (11.32%) Network Architecture
4 6 (11.32%) Performance Improvement
4 6 (11.32%) Statistics
5 5 (9.43%) Change Management
5 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (9.43%) RAD
5 5 (9.43%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (7.55%) DevOps
6 4 (7.55%) Load Balancing
6 4 (7.55%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (7.55%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (7.55%) OWASP
6 4 (7.55%) Performance Management
7 2 (3.77%) Functional Testing
7 2 (3.77%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.55%) C
1 4 (7.55%) C++
1 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
1 4 (7.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) Degree
2 14 (26.42%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (18.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (15.09%) CCNA
5 6 (11.32%) CCNP
6 4 (7.55%) CCIE
6 4 (7.55%) VCAP
7 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) GDPR
1 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) OpenView
2 4 (7.55%) SCOM
2 4 (7.55%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Iperf
3 1 (1.89%) Kibana
3 1 (1.89%) Nagios
3 1 (1.89%) OpenVAS
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Ericsson
2 12 (22.64%) Actix
2 12 (22.64%) Huawei
2 12 (22.64%) Nokia
3 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
4 9 (16.98%) Cisco
4 9 (16.98%) Empirix
4 9 (16.98%) F5
4 9 (16.98%) NetScout
5 7 (13.21%) SolarWinds
6 4 (7.55%) Klocwork
6 4 (7.55%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (7.55%) Perforce
7 3 (5.66%) Splunk
7 3 (5.66%) VMware
8 1 (1.89%) AlienVault
8 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.89%) Google
8 1 (1.89%) Juniper
8 1 (1.89%) Qualys