Suricata Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Suricata Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Suricata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Suricata 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £478 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - -
75th Percentile £595 - -
90th Percentile £630 - -
North West median daily rate £537 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

Suricata falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 128 74 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.58% 17.54% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 51 48
10th Percentile £333 £303 £346
25th Percentile £358 £356 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -14.14% +7.03%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £562
90th Percentile £652 £638 £582
North West median daily rate £478 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.53% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile - £21.05 £16.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £22.61 £17.49
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +36.46% -20.93%
75th Percentile £16.50 £81.38 -
90th Percentile - £86.15 £17.74
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year +27.91% +123.38% -51.88%

Suricata
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Suricata relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Suricata job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Suricata
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Suricata in Cheshire over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Suricata in Cheshire

Suricata
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Suricata within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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
Knutsford - 2 £537 -
Suricata
North West

Suricata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) GCIA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Snort
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto