Suricata Contract Job Trends in England

Suricata Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Suricata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Suricata 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.017% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £490 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 - -
75th Percentile £659 - -
90th Percentile £684 - -
UK median daily rate £627 - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,546 3,784 4,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.27% 15.77% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,812 2,577 3,289
10th Percentile £316 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £708 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.34% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 38 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.22 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £38.75 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +45.81% +34.78% -45.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.89 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +89.66% -3.33% -47.83%

Suricata
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Suricata job vacancy trend in England

Suricata
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Suricata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Suricata

Suricata
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Suricata in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Suricata in England

Suricata
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Suricata within the England region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
London - 4 £573 -
North West - 2 £537 -
North of England - 2 £537 -
South West - 1 £700 -
Suricata
UK

Suricata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 4 (57.14%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) IPsec
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) tcpdump
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Artifactory
General
1 1 (14.29%) Military
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) SEO
4 1 (14.29%) Network Design
4 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) GCIA
3 1 (14.29%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Squid
2 2 (28.57%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk