Suricata Contract Job Trends in the South West

Suricata Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Suricata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Suricata 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.030% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
England median daily rate £653 - -

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 392 299 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.62% 17.86% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 231 318
10th Percentile £305 £265 £210
25th Percentile £425 £439 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £724 £700 £696
England median daily rate £506 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 15
10th Percentile £46.00 £16.15 -
25th Percentile £48.25 £30.84 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £74.35 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +85.88% -45.21%
75th Percentile - £79.68 £72.85
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.48 £76.28
England median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +94.83% +7.41% -48.39%

Suricata
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Suricata job vacancy trend in the South West

Suricata
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Suricata within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
Bristol - 1 £700 -
Suricata
England

Suricata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk