Snort Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Sourcefire Snort
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Snort skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 - 403
Rank change year-on-year - - +69
Contract jobs citing Snort 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - 0.020%
As % of the System Software category 0.084% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £574
25th Percentile - - £655
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £700
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £300 - £570

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,385 1,963 2,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.70% 14.16% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 1,269 1,823
10th Percentile £190 £185 £170
25th Percentile £323 £304 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -3.12%
75th Percentile £568 £586 £575
90th Percentile £638 £653 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 64 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.30 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £17.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 £37.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +61.33% -26.83% +132.95%
75th Percentile £74.82 £64.50 £67.69
90th Percentile £90.75 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £28.71 £50.00
% change year-on-year +46.11% -42.59% +29.87%

Snort
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Snort job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Snort
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Snort.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Snort

Snort
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Snort.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Snort

Snort
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snort within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £300 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £300 - 1
North of England - 1 - -
Snort
UK

Snort
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Akamai
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Web Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Regular Expression
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Imperva
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk