Wireshark
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Wireshark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Wireshark over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 798 859 962
Rank change year-on-year +61 +103 -215
Permanent jobs citing Wireshark 100 121 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.74% 0.77% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 69 72 167
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,625 £31,700
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +6.67%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,516 15,741 20,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 15.58% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,426 8,007 11,698
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -3.23% +3.33%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Wireshark.

Salary trend for Wireshark in the UK

Wireshark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Wireshark over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Wireshark in the UK

Wireshark
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireshark within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +68 91 £55,000 +4.76% 22
UK excluding London -27 69 £45,000 -10.00% 18
Work from Home +25 35 £56,500 +7.62% 11
London +111 30 £55,000 - 11
Midlands -10 23 £37,500 +20.00%
West Midlands +5 15 £30,500 -2.40%
North of England +44 13 £56,500 +29.14% 3
South East +9 13 £42,500 -15.00% 3
Yorkshire - 9 £56,500 - 1
East Midlands -15 8 £37,500 -
South West -32 7 £60,000 -20.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 7 £57,500 -
East of England +2 4 £45,000 -37.50% 1
North West -5 4 £57,500 +15.00% 1
Wales - 2 £27,500 -

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 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.00%) CMS
3 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.00%) Azure
2 34 (34.00%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (14.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 10 (10.00%) AWS
6 9 (9.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.00%) GitHub
8 1 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 49 (49.00%) TCP/IP
2 35 (35.00%) Firewall
3 30 (30.00%) LAN
3 30 (30.00%) WAN
4 22 (22.00%) DNS
4 22 (22.00%) Network Security
5 17 (17.00%) VLAN
5 17 (17.00%) VoIP
6 16 (16.00%) DHCP
7 14 (14.00%) BGP
7 14 (14.00%) OSPF
8 13 (13.00%) VPN
9 11 (11.00%) MPLS
9 11 (11.00%) SD-WAN
9 11 (11.00%) tcpdump
9 11 (11.00%) Wireless
10 8 (8.00%) 802.11
11 7 (7.00%) EIGRP
11 7 (7.00%) VRRP
11 7 (7.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Visual Studio
2 7 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.00%) Charles Proxy
3 4 (4.00%) IDA Disassembler
3 4 (4.00%) Metasploit
4 2 (2.00%) JIRA
5 1 (1.00%) AppScan
5 1 (1.00%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.00%) GCC
5 1 (1.00%) Git
5 1 (1.00%) Selenium
5 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Finance
3 11 (11.00%) Telecoms
4 9 (9.00%) Retail
5 6 (6.00%) Electronics
6 5 (5.00%) Law
7 4 (4.00%) Aviation
8 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.00%) Legal
10 1 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Senior
2 17 (17.00%) Analyst
3 16 (16.00%) Security Engineer
4 15 (15.00%) Lead
5 11 (11.00%) Information Security Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Network Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Software Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Team Leader
6 10 (10.00%) Administrator
6 10 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
7 9 (9.00%) Network Administrator
8 8 (8.00%) IT Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 7 (7.00%) Network Analyst
9 7 (7.00%) Security Analyst
10 6 (6.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) IT Security Analyst
10 6 (6.00%) Operations Analyst
10 6 (6.00%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (6.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.00%) Node.js
2 8 (8.00%) 802.1X
3 4 (4.00%) .NET
3 4 (4.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.00%) CSS
3 4 (4.00%) Django
3 4 (4.00%) HTML
3 4 (4.00%) JSON
3 4 (4.00%) Qt
3 4 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.00%) React
3 4 (4.00%) WebSockets
3 4 (4.00%) XML
3 4 (4.00%) ZeroMQ
4 2 (2.00%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.00%) Middleware
4 2 (2.00%) MSMQ
5 1 (1.00%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.00%) Management Information System
2 15 (15.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (12.00%) Data Centre
4 8 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (7.00%) FMCG
6 6 (6.00%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (4.00%) Client/Server
7 4 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (4.00%) Robotics
8 3 (3.00%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (2.00%) CCTV
9 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (1.00%) CSOC
10 1 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (1.00%) Cyberattack
10 1 (1.00%) Housing Association
10 1 (1.00%) iPhone
10 1 (1.00%) Smartcard
10 1 (1.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 35 (35.00%) Linux
1 35 (35.00%) Windows
2 15 (15.00%) Android
3 14 (14.00%) Apple iOS
4 6 (6.00%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (5.00%) Kali Linux
6 3 (3.00%) CentOS
6 3 (3.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.00%) Unix
7 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.00%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (29.00%) Agile
3 27 (27.00%) SIEM
4 24 (24.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 23 (23.00%) Information Security
5 23 (23.00%) Security Operations
6 19 (19.00%) Ethical Hacking
7 18 (18.00%) Cryptography
7 18 (18.00%) Validation
8 17 (17.00%) Information Security Management
8 17 (17.00%) Network Design
8 17 (17.00%) Security Management
9 16 (16.00%) Cloud Security
9 16 (16.00%) Data Loss Prevention
9 16 (16.00%) Identity Access Management
10 14 (14.00%) Key Management
10 14 (14.00%) Project Roadmap
10 14 (14.00%) Roadmaps
10 14 (14.00%) Secrets Management
10 14 (14.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.00%) Python
2 29 (29.00%) PowerShell
3 14 (14.00%) Bash
3 14 (14.00%) C
4 10 (10.00%) C++
5 8 (8.00%) Perl
6 4 (4.00%) Go
6 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.00%) R
6 4 (4.00%) SQL
7 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (39.00%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (25.00%) Degree
3 20 (20.00%) CEH
4 19 (19.00%) CCNP
5 18 (18.00%) CCNA
6 17 (17.00%) CISSP
7 16 (16.00%) SANS
8 15 (15.00%) Security Cleared
8 15 (15.00%) SSCP
9 14 (14.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 14 (14.00%) CCSP
10 10 (10.00%) DV Cleared
11 8 (8.00%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (8.00%) OSCP
12 7 (7.00%) CCDP
12 7 (7.00%) CCIE
12 7 (7.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 7 (7.00%) MCSE
12 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (21.00%) PCI DSS
3 19 (19.00%) NIST
4 10 (10.00%) QA
5 6 (6.00%) GDPR
5 6 (6.00%) GRC
5 6 (6.00%) JTAG
5 6 (6.00%) NCSC
6 4 (4.00%) SLA
7 1 (1.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 15 (15.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (14.00%) Active Directory
3 13 (13.00%) Firmware
4 11 (11.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (6.00%) Docker
6 3 (3.00%) KVM
7 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.00%) vSphere
8 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.00%) Snort
8 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (16.00%) Nmap
2 15 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (8.00%) CSIRT
4 4 (4.00%) Ansible
4 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.00%) Nessus
5 3 (3.00%) Grafana
5 3 (3.00%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.00%) Puppet
6 2 (2.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (2.00%) Nagios
6 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.00%) Icinga
7 1 (1.00%) Iperf
7 1 (1.00%) OpenNMS
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.00%) Sysdig
7 1 (1.00%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (31.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (25.00%) Cisco
3 20 (20.00%) Qualys
4 18 (18.00%) Splunk
5 14 (14.00%) Rapid7
5 14 (14.00%) Thycotic
6 13 (13.00%) VMware
7 9 (9.00%) Veeam
8 7 (7.00%) Ekahau
8 7 (7.00%) Red Hat
9 6 (6.00%) F5
10 4 (4.00%) Palo Alto
11 3 (3.00%) Juniper
12 2 (2.00%) Riverbed
12 2 (2.00%) Ruckus Wireless
12 2 (2.00%) SaltStack
12 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds
13 1 (1.00%) Meraki
13 1 (1.00%) Supermicro
13 1 (1.00%) Trustwave