Sourcefire Snort
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Snort skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Snort over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 714 852
Rank change year-on-year +137 +138 -155
Contract jobs citing Snort 5 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.007% 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.11% 0.051% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £330 £426 £509
25th Percentile £505 £433 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £465 £670
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -30.60% +34.00%
75th Percentile £515 £496 £685
90th Percentile £536 £502 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 -
% change year-on-year +12.82% - -

All System Software Skills
UK

Snort is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,662 7,877 12,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.70% 13.20% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,188 5,625 8,603
10th Percentile £199 £205 £200
25th Percentile £333 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -4.69% +7.26% +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 280 317
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.95 £13.20
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £77.90 £75.00 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £41.88 £18.12
% change year-on-year -47.46% +131.16% +2.93%

Snort
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Snort in the UK

Snort
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Snort in the UK

Snort
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snort over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Snort in the UK

Snort
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Snort in the UK

Snort
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snort within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +135 5 £510 +15.25% 1
England +110 2 £388 -20.51% 2
UK excluding London +58 1 £550 +12.82% 2
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

Snort
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 (80.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (80.00%) tcpdump
2 4 (80.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (80.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (80.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (80.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (80.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) SOAR
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft