Suricata Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
UK

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 976 1222
Rank change year-on-year +103 +246 -311
Permanent jobs citing Suricata 4 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.040% 0.013% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £68,400
25th Percentile - £63,750 £69,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £67,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -6.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile - - £76,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £120,000 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Suricata is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 10,004 15,239 28,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 14.68% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,221 9,353 14,177
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,420 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,185 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

Suricata
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Suricata in the UK

Suricata
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Suricata in the UK

Suricata
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Suricata within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +89 4 £120,000 +77.78% 2
UK excluding London - 4 £120,000 - 2
South East - 4 £120,000 - 2

Suricata
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
1 4 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Application Security
1 4 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 4 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 4 (100.00%) Database Security
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) OWASP
1 4 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 4 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) SOAR
1 4 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk