Suricata Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Suricata Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Suricata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Suricata 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.009% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.066% - -
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 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,051 1,986 2,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.07% 15.63% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,138 1,333 1,736
10th Percentile £275 £227 £213
25th Percentile £400 £381 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +1.27% -5.95%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £657 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 32 101
10th Percentile £18.91 £12.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.50 £19.51 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -8.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.42 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.70 £78.58 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

Suricata
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Suricata job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Suricata
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Suricata
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Suricata in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Suricata in the UK excluding London

Suricata
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 Suricata within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
North West - 2 £537 -
North of England - 2 £537 -
Suricata
UK

Suricata
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:

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
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Snort
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto