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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Suricata 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £490 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £653 - -
90th Percentile £657 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 - -

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 6,401 4,577 5,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.46% 15.79% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,402 3,122 3,637
10th Percentile £325 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -8.21%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £497 £490
% change year-on-year -0.35% +1.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 53 113
10th Percentile £20.09 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.39 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -53.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.35 £72.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +103.70% -6.09% -32.35%

Suricata
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Suricata job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Suricata over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Suricata in the UK

Suricata
Top 6 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 14 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
England - 7 £572 - 1
London - 5 £573 - 1
North West - 2 £537 -
Work from Home - 2 £653 -
UK excluding London - 2 £537 -
North of England - 2 £537 -

Suricata
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Route 53
4 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
3 4 (44.44%) Network Security
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (22.22%) DNS
4 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (22.22%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) tcpdump
5 1 (11.11%) VLAN
5 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) SEO
3 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Threat Detection
4 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
4 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) GCIA
3 1 (11.11%) GCIH
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Squid
2 3 (33.33%) Snort
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Grafana
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Nessus
2 1 (11.11%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
2 1 (11.11%) Carbon Black
2 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (11.11%) FireEye
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Qualys
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Zscaler