Snort Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Sourcefire Snort
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Snort skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Snort 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.042% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
England median daily rate £300 - £700

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

Snort falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 403 183 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.05% 11.52% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 124 152
10th Percentile £212 £160 £162
25th Percentile £360 £200 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% +15.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £535
90th Percentile £683 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £17.63
25th Percentile - £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.00% -23.71%
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - £27.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £37.97 £28.71 £43.84
% change year-on-year +32.28% -34.52% +13.87%

Snort
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Snort relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Snort job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Snort
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Snort.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Snort

Snort
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snort within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Birmingham - 1 £300 -
Snort
England

Snort
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft