Hybrid/Remote Suricata Contract Job Trends

Suricata Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Suricata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Suricata 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.016% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Suricata falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,696 1,513 1,633
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.93% 15.53% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 1,082 1,219
10th Percentile £367 £382 £350
25th Percentile £440 £438 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.91%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £761 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £513
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 13 18
10th Percentile £33.19 £25.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +14.14% -27.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £56.88
90th Percentile £78.00 £70.75 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.25 £25.77
% change year-on-year +101.83% +5.76% -52.44%

Suricata
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Suricata and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Suricata job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Suricata
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Suricata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Suricata

Suricata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Hyperautomation
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Snort
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) Carbon Black
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) FireEye
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler