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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 - 601
Rank change year-on-year - - +175
Contract jobs citing Suricata 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% - 0.005%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.069% - 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £443
25th Percentile - - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.75%
75th Percentile - - £569
90th Percentile - - £588
UK median daily rate - - £525
% change year-on-year - - -20.75%

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 4,375 4,512 6,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 13.69% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,900 3,076 4,476
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 53 160
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.48
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.18 £26.69
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -19.78% +108.55%
75th Percentile £63.49 £62.50 £75.13
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.00 £78.79
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

Suricata
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Suricata 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
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 19 September 2025. 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 - 3 - -
Suricata
UK

Suricata
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Hyperautomation
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Snort
1 3 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Nessus
1 3 (100.00%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 3 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 3 (100.00%) FireEye
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (100.00%) Qualys
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
1 3 (100.00%) Zscaler