Snort Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Sourcefire Snort
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Snort 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 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Snort 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.64% - -
As % of the System Software category 3.17% - -
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 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £537 - -

All System Software Skills
Knutsford

Snort falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 63 20 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 20.06% 16.81% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 17 5
10th Percentile £358 £359 -
25th Percentile £415 £367 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £391 £540
Median % change year-on-year +28.52% -27.59% -1.82%
75th Percentile £639 £393 -
90th Percentile £654 £484 £556
Cheshire median daily rate £449 £391 £375
% change year-on-year +14.83% +4.27% -18.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year -33.83% +36.46% -44.55%

Snort
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Snort job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Snort
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Snort in Knutsford

Snort
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Suricata
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto