The first table below looks at the demand for SNMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SNMP over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Rank 427 402 415
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +13
Contract jobs citing SNMP 91 162 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.219% 0.303% 0.280%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.491% 1.930% 2.138%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 65 43
Average daily rate £300 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £245 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £459 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 11
Average hourly rate £20.50 £42.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.76% +23.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.05 £24.50 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.85 £56.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.25 £52.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-61.42% +52.17%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6103 8393 7485
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.70% 15.72% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3062 3926 3458
Average daily rate £350 £366 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.29% +4.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 565 757
Average hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
SNMP
UK

SNMP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SNMP across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England SNMP Jobs Demand Trend

SNMP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SNMP across the England region.

England SNMP Daily Rate Trend

SNMP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SNMP across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England SNMP Daily Rate Histogram

SNMP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SNMP across the England region.

England SNMP Hourly Rate Trend

SNMP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SNMP across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England SNMP Hourly Rate Histogram

SNMP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SNMP within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +7 36 £400 +14.28%
South East -14 16 £290 -3.33%
East of England +23 14 £286 -1.29%
West Midlands +17 11 £250 -28.57%
North West +2 6 £280 -6.66%
South West +21 4 £328 +25.04%
East Midlands +2 2 - -
Yorkshire -1 2 - -
SNMP
UK

SNMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SNMP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SNMP.

1 102 (50.75%) Cisco
2 73 (36.32%) Windows
3 68 (33.83%) DNS
4 65 (32.34%) Firewall
5 60 (29.85%) VMware
6 56 (27.86%) HP
6 56 (27.86%) Cisco Certification
7 54 (26.87%) TCP/IP
8 50 (24.88%) Linux
9 44 (21.89%) LAN
9 44 (21.89%) OSPF
10 43 (21.39%) SMTP
10 43 (21.39%) Network Management
11 42 (20.90%) WAN
12 41 (20.40%) DHCP
12 41 (20.40%) BGP
13 40 (19.90%) Juniper
13 40 (19.90%) Security Cleared
14 37 (18.41%) CCNA
14 37 (18.41%) VPN
15 36 (17.91%) IPsec
16 35 (17.41%) VLAN
17 34 (16.92%) CCNP
18 33 (16.42%) MPLS
19 31 (15.42%) Microsoft
19 31 (15.42%) VMware Infrastructure
20 29 (14.43%) SAN
20 29 (14.43%) Wireless
21 28 (13.93%) Oracle
21 28 (13.93%) Cisco ASA

SNMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SNMP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SNMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (5.970%) XML
2 11 (5.473%) .NET
3 9 (4.478%) Web Services
3 9 (4.478%) HTML
3 9 (4.478%) Middleware
4 7 (3.483%) WCF
4 7 (3.483%) SOAP
4 7 (3.483%) CSS
5 6 (2.985%) JDBC
5 6 (2.985%) ASP.NET
5 6 (2.985%) WPF
5 6 (2.985%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.985%) LINQ
5 6 (2.985%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 6 (2.985%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 5 (2.488%) Reactive Extensions
6 5 (2.488%) jQuery
6 5 (2.488%) .NET Remoting
6 5 (2.488%) Ajax
7 4 (1.990%) CORBA
Application Platforms
1 20 (9.950%) Apache
2 10 (4.975%) IIS
2 10 (4.975%) Tomcat
3 8 (3.980%) MS Exchange
3 8 (3.980%) Liferay
4 6 (2.985%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (2.488%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.990%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (1.990%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (1.990%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (1.493%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.995%) ESB
9 1 (0.498%) Jetty
9 1 (0.498%) WebSphere Process Server
9 1 (0.498%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.498%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 13 (6.468%) MS Excel
2 12 (5.970%) MS Office
3 1 (0.498%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.990%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 68 (33.83%) DNS
2 65 (32.34%) Firewall
3 54 (26.87%) TCP/IP
4 44 (21.89%) LAN
4 44 (21.89%) OSPF
5 43 (21.39%) SMTP
6 42 (20.90%) WAN
7 41 (20.40%) DHCP
7 41 (20.40%) BGP
8 37 (18.41%) VPN
9 36 (17.91%) IPsec
10 35 (17.41%) VLAN
11 33 (16.42%) MPLS
12 29 (14.43%) SAN
12 29 (14.43%) Wireless
13 28 (13.93%) Cisco ASA
14 26 (12.94%) Cisco Nexus
15 25 (12.44%) VoIP
16 23 (11.44%) Ethernet
17 22 (10.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.955%) MySQL
2 11 (5.473%) Oracle BI EE
2 11 (5.473%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.473%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.483%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (2.985%) Oracle 11g
4 6 (2.985%) SQL Server 2012
5 5 (2.488%) SAP Data Services
5 5 (2.488%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.488%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.990%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (1.493%) GIS
8 1 (0.498%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.498%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.498%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.498%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (4.975%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.980%) Git (software)
2 8 (3.980%) Hudson
3 6 (2.985%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.985%) Selenium
4 5 (2.488%) Expression Blend
4 5 (2.488%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (1.990%) Telelogic TAU
5 4 (1.990%) Rational Rose
6 3 (1.493%) TestNG
6 3 (1.493%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.493%) JUnit
6 3 (1.493%) Introscope
7 2 (0.995%) Subversion
7 2 (0.995%) JIRA
7 2 (0.995%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.995%) MyEclipse
General
1 26 (12.94%) Telecoms
2 22 (10.95%) Finance
3 11 (5.473%) Banking
4 5 (2.488%) Investment Banking
5 4 (1.990%) Military
5 4 (1.990%) Back Office
6 3 (1.493%) German Language
7 2 (0.995%) Retail
8 1 (0.498%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (0.498%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.498%) Billing
8 1 (0.498%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 63 (31.34%) Network Engineer
2 18 (8.955%) Developer
3 17 (8.458%) Administrator
4 16 (7.960%) Architect
5 15 (7.463%) Systems Engineer
6 14 (6.965%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (6.468%) Systems Administrator
8 12 (5.970%) Infrastructure Architect
8 12 (5.970%) Linux Administrator
9 11 (5.473%) Support Engineer
10 10 (4.975%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (4.975%) IP Engineer
11 9 (4.478%) Analyst
12 8 (3.980%) Consultant
12 8 (3.980%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 7 (3.483%) Firewall Engineer
13 7 (3.483%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 7 (3.483%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 7 (3.483%) Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.985%) Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.463%) Open Source
2 12 (5.970%) Cryptography
2 12 (5.970%) Computer Science
3 11 (5.473%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.478%) Clustering
5 6 (2.985%) Client/Server
5 6 (2.985%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.488%) SecurID
7 4 (1.990%) Blackberry
7 4 (1.990%) Mathematics
7 4 (1.990%) Physics
7 4 (1.990%) iSeries
7 4 (1.990%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.493%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.493%) Statistics
8 3 (1.493%) Device Driver
9 2 (0.995%) Streaming Media
9 2 (0.995%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.995%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.498%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 73 (36.32%) Windows
2 50 (24.88%) Linux
3 25 (12.44%) UNIX
3 25 (12.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 16 (7.960%) Windows Server 2003
5 15 (7.463%) Solaris
6 14 (6.965%) CentOS
7 12 (5.970%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (5.473%) Windows 7
8 11 (5.473%) Ubuntu
9 9 (4.478%) Debian
10 7 (3.483%) Windows 8
11 6 (2.985%) Gentoo
11 6 (2.985%) FreeBSD
12 5 (2.488%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (1.990%) VMS
14 3 (1.493%) Apple iOS
14 3 (1.493%) Android
15 2 (0.995%) SUSE
15 2 (0.995%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (21.39%) Network Management
2 21 (10.45%) ITIL
3 17 (8.458%) SOA
4 14 (6.965%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (6.965%) Scrum
5 13 (6.468%) Project Management
6 12 (5.970%) Incident Management
7 9 (4.478%) MVVM
7 9 (4.478%) PRINCE2
8 8 (3.980%) Load Balancing
9 7 (3.483%) Memory Management
9 7 (3.483%) Network Architecture
9 7 (3.483%) Project Planning
9 7 (3.483%) Migration
10 6 (2.985%) Workflow
10 6 (2.985%) UML
10 6 (2.985%) Performance Management
10 6 (2.985%) Multithreading
11 5 (2.488%) Configuration Management
12 4 (1.990%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.45%) SQL
2 20 (9.950%) Perl
2 20 (9.950%) Shell Script
3 17 (8.458%) C#
4 14 (6.965%) Bash shell
5 13 (6.468%) Python
6 11 (5.473%) C++
6 11 (5.473%) Java
7 8 (3.980%) C
8 7 (3.483%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.488%) sed
9 5 (2.488%) AWK
10 2 (0.995%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.995%) PHP
10 2 (0.995%) VBScript
10 2 (0.995%) Ruby
11 1 (0.498%) XPath
11 1 (0.498%) Korn
11 1 (0.498%) Jython
Qualifications
1 56 (27.86%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (19.90%) Security Cleared
3 37 (18.41%) CCNA
4 34 (16.92%) CCNP
5 21 (10.45%) Degree
6 18 (8.955%) SC Cleared
7 14 (6.965%) CCIE
8 12 (5.970%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.980%) RHCE
10 7 (3.483%) HP APS
10 7 (3.483%) JNCIE
11 6 (2.985%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (2.985%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.985%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (2.488%) MCSE
13 4 (1.990%) GCSC
14 3 (1.493%) JNCIP
15 1 (0.498%) MCTS
15 1 (0.498%) MCITP
15 1 (0.498%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.468%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.990%) SLA
3 3 (1.493%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.995%) QA
System Software
1 31 (15.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (12.44%) Active Directory
3 17 (8.458%) NFS
4 16 (7.960%) Postfix
4 16 (7.960%) vSphere
5 14 (6.965%) VMware ESX
6 12 (5.970%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (3.980%) Squid
8 6 (2.985%) XenDesktop
9 5 (2.488%) XenApp
9 5 (2.488%) Nmap
10 4 (1.990%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.493%) Samba
12 2 (0.995%) ProxySG
12 2 (0.995%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.995%) SRDF
12 2 (0.995%) Varnish
13 1 (0.498%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 26 (12.94%) Nagios
2 20 (9.950%) OpenView
3 15 (7.463%) Puppet
4 14 (6.965%) SCOM
5 13 (6.468%) WhatsUp Gold
6 12 (5.970%) Cacti
7 10 (4.975%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (4.478%) Tivoli
9 7 (3.483%) FortiGate
9 7 (3.483%) WMI
9 7 (3.483%) CiscoWorks
9 7 (3.483%) NetBackup
9 7 (3.483%) Netcool
9 7 (3.483%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 5 (2.488%) Splunk
10 5 (2.488%) SCCM
11 4 (1.990%) HP NNM
11 4 (1.990%) Cobbler
12 3 (1.493%) HP SiteScope
12 3 (1.493%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 102 (50.75%) Cisco
2 60 (29.85%) VMware
3 56 (27.86%) HP
4 40 (19.90%) Juniper
5 31 (15.42%) Microsoft
6 28 (13.93%) Oracle
7 24 (11.94%) Red Hat
8 23 (11.44%) F5
9 21 (10.45%) Citrix
10 17 (8.458%) EMC
11 16 (7.960%) Nokia
11 16 (7.960%) SolarWinds
12 14 (6.965%) NetApp
13 13 (6.468%) Blue Coat
13 13 (6.468%) SAP
14 11 (5.473%) Dell
14 11 (5.473%) CheckPoint
15 10 (4.975%) Compaq
15 10 (4.975%) IBM
15 10 (4.975%) Sun
Redditch, Worcestershire
knowledge of hardware, including PC (Compaq, Dell, Sun, etc.), Windows OSs, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, Modems, Disc Packs and Tape drives. Working knowledge of Windows Sun Solaris and their...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: £18 - £20 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
Redditch, West Midlands
Knowledge of Hardware, including PC (Compaq, Dell, Sun, etc.), Windows OSs, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, Modems, Disc Packs and Tape drives. "Working knowledge of Windows Sun Solaris and their...
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £19.00 - £20.00 per hour
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Roc Search / Network Engineer / - OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, MPLS Core Networking, CCNP, CCDP, BCNE / Contract / London... Essential Skills: 3+ years in a technical operations or engineering role within...
Roc Search
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
Experience in the financial sector VMware HP Hardware & HP Health monitoring tools Scripting experience in one or more of Python/Shell/Perl/Ruby languages Network build/management systems,...
Orgtel
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Critical business partner role alongside Systems Engineering, Problem Management, Change Management, Network Operations and Service Operations. 3-5+ Years Linux/Unix support or engineering, capable of providing 2nd/...
Orgtel
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Essential) In-Depth knowledge of implementing infrastructure solutions to support VMware ESX and Citrix Xen Desktop Virtualisation Knowledge of other network related protocols and solutions: DNS, AD, DHCP,...
WorldPay
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Solutions Designer - Solutions Architect - SAN - Oracle - EMC - vMAX - Fusion Middleware... *In-depth understanding of Blade compute infrastructures - primarily HP *Wide experience in implementing SAN and distributed storage infrastructures...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £425 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
The Role: - Systems Software Engineer - Feedback to Manager & Team Required: - Embedded device control using, for example: GPIB, MIPI, USB, LAN, SNMP - Experience of MATLAB or C# - Understanding of...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Knowledge and Working experience in Intelligent Networks, Value Added Services (Vodafone UK- Preferred), Wireless Telecom -Network Side (GSM/GPRS)... Experience in HP Quality Centre tool for managing defects...
Anantha Limited
Posted: 20 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
IN test engineers... The client is looking for candidates with good experience on: - INAP, - Diameter, - LDAP, - SNMP and MAP protocols, - Any experience on VF IN systems is a...
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Posted: 22 May 2013