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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Suricata 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.094% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £627 - -
90th Percentile £642 - -
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 4,763 5,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.63% 16.12% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,422 3,200 3,772
10th Percentile £315 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 50 139
10th Percentile £19.00 £17.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.41 £22.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -20.31% -41.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.75 £58.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.75 £70.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -13.04%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 - 4 £537 -
Work from Home - 3 £653 -
UK excluding London - 2 £537 -
North of England - 2 £537 -
London - 2 - -
North West - 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 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (33.33%) Cloudflare
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) OpenDNS
1 2 (33.33%) Route 53
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) tcpdump
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Hyperautomation
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) GCIA
2 1 (16.67%) GCIH
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Snort
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Nessus
1 2 (33.33%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) Blue Coat
2 2 (33.33%) Carbon Black
2 2 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (33.33%) FireEye
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Qualys
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Zscaler