tcpdump Contracts with Work from Home Options

tcpdump
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 333 451 593
Rank change year-on-year +118 +142 -95
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 8 6 30
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.054% 0.025% 0.068%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.52% 0.21% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 30
10th Percentile £442 £400 £400
25th Percentile £505 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £515 £475 £578
90th Percentile £536 - £639
UK median daily rate £510 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +5.97% +6.94% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,531 2,803 4,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,872 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 99 105
10th Percentile £12.53 £19.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.07 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing tcpdump as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

tcpdump trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing tcpdump.

tcpdump daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing tcpdump over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

tcpdump daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Wireshark
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall
3 4 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (50.00%) SSL
3 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (25.00%) IPsec
4 2 (25.00%) Network Security
4 2 (25.00%) VPN
5 1 (12.50%) BGP
5 1 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (12.50%) DNS
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) NX-OS
5 1 (12.50%) OSPF
5 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) French Language
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Support
2 1 (12.50%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Remote Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Incident Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) OLE
2 2 (25.00%) LDAP
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) LAMP
3 1 (12.50%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (12.50%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (50.00%) YARA
2 2 (25.00%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Incident Management
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (50.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) Use Case
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (25.00%) Web Filtering
4 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Snort
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) Postfix
3 1 (12.50%) ProxySG
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kibana
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) F5
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) VMware