Snort Contract Job Trends

Sourcefire Snort
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 580 - 582
Rank change year-on-year - - +186
Contract jobs citing Snort 7 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% - 0.019%
As % of the System Software category 0.15% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £570
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 - £700

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,584 3,810 5,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.13% 12.02% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,121 2,457 3,508
10th Percentile £213 £200 £190
25th Percentile £400 £363 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 90 222
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.87 £21.30 £18.06
Median hourly rate £41.94 £28.71 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.11% -42.59% +29.87%
75th Percentile £72.13 £62.50 £68.32
90th Percentile £90.90 £75.00 £83.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £37.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year +61.33% -26.83% +132.95%

Snort
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Snort job vacancy trend in the UK

Snort
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Snort
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Snort
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England - 7 £300 - 1
London - 5 - -
Work from Home - 3 - - 1
UK excluding London - 2 £300 - 1
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £300 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £300 - 1

Snort
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (57.14%) Cloudflare
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 4 (57.14%) OpenDNS
4 3 (42.86%) AWS
5 2 (28.57%) Akamai
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (28.57%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Security Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Security Operations Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Applications Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Mac OS X
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
2 6 (85.71%) Incident Response
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (71.43%) SOAR
4 4 (57.14%) Hyperautomation
4 4 (57.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (57.14%) Network Architecture
4 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
4 4 (57.14%) Threat Detection
4 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Change Management
6 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
6 1 (14.29%) ITIL
6 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
1 4 (57.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Nessus
1 4 (57.14%) Nexpose
1 4 (57.14%) Suricata
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) Splunk
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Blue Coat
3 4 (57.14%) Carbon Black
3 4 (57.14%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (57.14%) FireEye
3 4 (57.14%) Google
3 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
3 4 (57.14%) Qualys
3 4 (57.14%) Zscaler
4 2 (28.57%) ArcSight
4 2 (28.57%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) Imperva