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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 - 606
Rank change year-on-year - - +144
Contract jobs citing Suricata 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% - 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.099% - 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £600
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 6,042 4,743 5,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.48% 15.25% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,173 3,068 4,039
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 60 162
10th Percentile £17.90 £15.22 £14.08
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.05 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +8.66%
75th Percentile £63.32 £59.06 £60.94
90th Percentile £82.40 £70.44 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £23.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +126.60% -49.11% +11.18%

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
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 7 February 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
London - 4 - -
England - 4 - -
Work from Home - 3 - -

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 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (66.67%) Cloudflare
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
1 4 (66.67%) OpenDNS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Route 53
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Operations Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Security Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Hyperautomation
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 4 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
1 4 (66.67%) SOAR
1 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
1 4 (66.67%) Snort
1 4 (66.67%) Squid
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Nessus
1 4 (66.67%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Blue Coat
1 4 (66.67%) Carbon Black
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (66.67%) FireEye
1 4 (66.67%) Google
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 4 (66.67%) Qualys
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
1 4 (66.67%) Zscaler