Wireshark Contracts with Work from Home Options

Wireshark
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 324 407 556
Rank change year-on-year +83 +149 -93
Contract jobs citing Wireshark 17 50 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.11% 1.78% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 37 58
10th Percentile £300 £390 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £534
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -3.98% +36.86%
75th Percentile £550 £900 £613
90th Percentile £653 £1,053 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Wireshark
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Wireshark 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 Wireshark.

Wireshark 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 Wireshark over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Wireshark 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 (23.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Akamai
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Cloudflare
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) Firewall
2 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
2 7 (41.18%) tcpdump
3 6 (35.29%) Network Security
4 5 (29.41%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (29.41%) SD-WAN
4 5 (29.41%) SNMP
4 5 (29.41%) WAN
5 4 (23.53%) BGP
5 4 (23.53%) DHCP
5 4 (23.53%) DNS
5 4 (23.53%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (23.53%) OSPF
6 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (17.65%) HTTP
6 3 (17.65%) MPLS
6 3 (17.65%) SSL
7 2 (11.76%) IPsec
7 2 (11.76%) LAN
7 2 (11.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Apache Hive
1 4 (23.53%) Hadoop
1 4 (23.53%) Tableau
2 2 (11.76%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Citrix Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Integration Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Technology Integration Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Designer
3 1 (5.88%) LAN Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) LAN/WAN Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) OLE
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (23.53%) YARA
2 3 (17.65%) Clustering
3 2 (11.76%) Shadow IT
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) SIEM
2 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
3 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
3 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
3 4 (23.53%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
3 4 (23.53%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (23.53%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Reverse Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Security Architecture
3 4 (23.53%) Use Case
4 3 (17.65%) High Availability
4 3 (17.65%) Investment Management
4 3 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Management
4 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CCDP
1 3 (17.65%) CCNP
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
1 4 (23.53%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Snort
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kibana
2 2 (11.76%) Nagios
2 2 (11.76%) OpenView
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Nessus
3 1 (5.88%) Nmap
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Splunk
2 7 (41.18%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) Zscaler
4 4 (23.53%) Google
4 4 (23.53%) Infoblox
5 3 (17.65%) Arista
5 3 (17.65%) Aruba
5 3 (17.65%) F5
5 3 (17.65%) Meraki
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
5 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
6 2 (11.76%) AlienVault
6 2 (11.76%) Citrix
6 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
6 2 (11.76%) VMware
7 1 (5.88%) Blue Coat
7 1 (5.88%) Empirix
7 1 (5.88%) Ericsson
7 1 (5.88%) NetScout