Suricata Contract Job Trends

Suricata Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Suricata skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 - 649
Rank change year-on-year - - +198
Contract jobs citing Suricata 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% - 0.004%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.058% - 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £443
25th Percentile - - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.75%
75th Percentile - - £569
90th Percentile - - £588
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,215 5,226 7,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.83% 13.57% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,422 3,543 5,142
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £410 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £685 £701 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 61 176
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £34.25
Median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £62.69 £60.00 £75.13
90th Percentile £67.23 £74.00 £78.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.50% -15.01% +114.79%

Suricata
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Suricata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Suricata in the UK

Suricata
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Suricata
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
London - 3 - -
England - 3 - -
Work from Home - 1 - - 1

Suricata
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Hyperautomation
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Snort
1 3 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Nessus
1 3 (100.00%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 3 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 3 (100.00%) FireEye
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (100.00%) Qualys
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
1 3 (100.00%) Zscaler