Suricata Contracts

Suricata Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Suricata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Suricata over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 - 672
Rank change year-on-year - - +191
Contract jobs citing Suricata 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.012%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.020% - 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £530
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 4,998 5,430 8,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 12.53% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,315 3,860 6,174
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -5.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 102 189
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.30 £19.80
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.25 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -13.04% +130.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Suricata.

Daily rate trend for Suricata in the UK

Suricata
Top 2 Contract 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 5 July 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 - 1 - - 2
England - 1 - - 2

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