Snort Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Snort skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Snort over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 478 611
Rank change year-on-year +129 +133 -143
Contract jobs citing Snort 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.032% 0.008% 0.002%
As % of the System Software category 0.34% 0.062% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile £505 £421 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £443 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.25% - -
75th Percentile £515 £464 -
90th Percentile £536 - -
UK median daily rate £510 £465 £670
% change year-on-year +9.68% -30.60% +34.00%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Snort is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,471 3,226 5,496
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.53% 12.39% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 2,306 4,059
10th Percentile £262 £300 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £631 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 105 104
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.11 £14.28
25th Percentile £17.00 £47.50 £17.69
Median hourly rate £43.32 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.35% +165.31% -33.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £52.81
90th Percentile £83.99 £78.00 £65.86
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.14% +162.50% -

Snort
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Snort as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Snort trend for jobs with a WFH option

Snort
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Snort.

Snort daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Snort
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Snort over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Snort daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Snort
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (80.00%) tcpdump
2 4 (80.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (80.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (80.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (80.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (80.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) SOAR
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft