tcpdump Contracts

tcpdump
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring tcpdump skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited tcpdump 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 570 661 802
Rank change year-on-year +91 +141 -106
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 14 36 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.065% 0.053%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% 0.51% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 41
10th Percentile £350 £394 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% +6.94% -
75th Percentile £515 £572 £588
90th Percentile £553 £613 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +14.29% +6.94% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.55 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.55 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

tcpdump 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,422 7,095 9,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.41% 12.77% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,210 4,570 6,438
10th Percentile £210 £244 £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 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 445 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £51.28
90th Percentile £70.90 £75.00 £65.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing tcpdump as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for tcpdump in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for tcpdump in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing tcpdump over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for tcpdump in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for tcpdump in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing tcpdump within the UK 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
Work from Home +118 8 £510 +20.00% 1
England +61 7 £400 -17.95% 7
London +74 4 £375 -30.23% 1
UK excluding London +10 3 £550 +14.29% 5
South East +2 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -

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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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) MQSeries
2 1 (7.14%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) Wireshark
2 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 7 (50.00%) Firewall
4 4 (28.57%) DHCP
4 4 (28.57%) DNS
4 4 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (28.57%) SSL
5 3 (21.43%) IPsec
5 3 (21.43%) LAN
5 3 (21.43%) Network Security
5 3 (21.43%) VPN
6 2 (14.29%) FTP
6 2 (14.29%) HTTP
6 2 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (14.29%) SNMP
6 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (7.14%) BGP
7 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
7 1 (7.14%) OSPF
7 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Hive
1 4 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 4 (28.57%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) French Language
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Citrix Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Incident Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Incident Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Support
3 1 (7.14%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Incident Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Security Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) OLE
2 3 (21.43%) LDAP
3 2 (14.29%) NETCONF
4 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.14%) LAMP
4 1 (7.14%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (7.14%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (28.57%) YARA
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (14.29%) Shadow IT
3 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Windows
3 3 (21.43%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
1 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
1 5 (35.71%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (35.71%) SIEM
2 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 4 (28.57%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (28.57%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (28.57%) Reverse Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (28.57%) Security Architecture
2 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
2 4 (28.57%) Use Case
2 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (14.29%) Change Management
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 2 (14.29%) Functional Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCNA
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) CCFP
3 1 (7.14%) EC-Council LPT
3 1 (7.14%) ECIH
3 1 (7.14%) ECSA
3 1 (7.14%) EnCE
3 1 (7.14%) GAWN
3 1 (7.14%) GCED
3 1 (7.14%) GCFE
3 1 (7.14%) GPEN
3 1 (7.14%) GPPA
3 1 (7.14%) GREM
3 1 (7.14%) GWAPT
3 1 (7.14%) GXPN
3 1 (7.14%) OSCE
3 1 (7.14%) OSCP
3 1 (7.14%) OSWP
3 1 (7.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Snort
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (7.14%) Docker
4 1 (7.14%) Postfix
4 1 (7.14%) ProxySG
4 1 (7.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Kibana
2 2 (14.29%) Nmap
2 2 (14.29%) OpenNMS
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (7.14%) CSIRT
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco
1 4 (28.57%) Google
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) Citrix
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Zscaler
3 1 (7.14%) Blue Coat
3 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) F5
3 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat