Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SNMP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SNMP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 628 717
Rank change year-on-year +120 +89 -156
Contract jobs citing SNMP 90 91 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.60% 1.23% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 76 75
10th Percentile £300 £313 £244
25th Percentile £388 £467 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +26.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £578
90th Percentile £638 £709 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £697 £494
% change year-on-year -30.01% +41.06% +19.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 5
10th Percentile £23.45 £21.78 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £26.69 £21.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £35.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.43% +30.00% -30.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.19 £30.25
90th Percentile £69.00 £50.33 £42.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £35.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +74.13% +62.50% -44.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SNMP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

SNMP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SNMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SNMP.

Daily rate trend for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SNMP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SNMP.

Hourly rate trend for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SNMP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SNMP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +136 85 £515 -14.17% 27
UK excluding London +52 44 £488 -30.01% 18
London +123 42 £600 +9.09% 10
South East +41 25 £400 - 8
Work from Home +126 21 £425 -19.05% 13
North of England +42 12 £515 -26.43% 2
North West - 12 £515 - 1
South West +17 3 £488 - 2
Scotland - 2 £365 - 1
West Midlands +25 1 - - 2
Midlands +12 1 - - 4
East of England -5 1 £875 +25.00%

SNMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (18.89%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.11%) MTS
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.33%) Azure
2 9 (10.00%) AWS
3 8 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.22%) Datadog
5 2 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.11%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 47 (52.22%) BGP
2 37 (41.11%) HSRP
3 35 (38.89%) MPLS
4 34 (37.78%) Firewall
5 29 (32.22%) OSPF
6 27 (30.00%) DNS
7 24 (26.67%) Cisco ASA
8 21 (23.33%) IPsec
9 20 (22.22%) VPLS
9 20 (22.22%) VRRP
10 18 (20.00%) TCP/IP
11 17 (18.89%) DHCP
11 17 (18.89%) Ethernet VPN
11 17 (18.89%) IPv4
11 17 (18.89%) RSVP
11 17 (18.89%) Spanning Tree
11 17 (18.89%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (17.78%) EIGRP
12 16 (17.78%) Software-Defined Radio
13 15 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) NonStop SQL
1 3 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (22.22%) Git
2 16 (17.78%) Eclipse
3 15 (16.67%) GoogleTest
3 15 (16.67%) JIRA
3 15 (16.67%) Robot Framework
4 13 (14.44%) Bitbucket
5 5 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.33%) GitLab
7 1 (1.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 22 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 7 (7.78%) Aerospace
3 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Finance
6 1 (1.11%) Electronics
6 1 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Network Engineer
2 17 (18.89%) IP Expert
3 12 (13.33%) Senior
4 11 (12.22%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Cisco Expert
6 8 (8.89%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Java Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Architect
9 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Telephony Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Voice Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Cisco Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (35.56%) Jinja
2 22 (24.44%) NETCONF
3 20 (22.22%) JSON
3 20 (22.22%) XML
3 20 (22.22%) YANG
4 13 (14.44%) CSS
4 13 (14.44%) HTML
5 3 (3.33%) RESTful
6 2 (2.22%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.11%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.11%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.89%) Distributed Architecture
2 10 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.56%) Clustering
3 5 (5.56%) PKI
4 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.11%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (1.11%) BBC
6 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.67%) Linux
2 14 (15.56%) Windows
3 6 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.67%) DevOps
2 23 (25.56%) ITIL
3 20 (22.22%) Agile
3 20 (22.22%) Validation
4 18 (20.00%) Network Management
4 18 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 17 (18.89%) Change Management
5 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (18.89%) Test Planning
6 16 (17.78%) Prototyping
6 16 (17.78%) Scrum
6 16 (17.78%) Verification and Validation
7 14 (15.56%) SysML
7 14 (15.56%) UML
8 12 (13.33%) ITSM
8 12 (13.33%) Load Balancing
9 11 (12.22%) Network Monitoring
10 9 (10.00%) Migration
11 6 (6.67%) High Availability
11 6 (6.67%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.11%) Python
2 15 (16.67%) C++
3 13 (14.44%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.33%) Perl
4 12 (13.33%) Tcl
5 9 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.11%) C
7 1 (1.11%) Groovy
7 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (26.67%) CCNP
3 22 (24.44%) Security Cleared
4 21 (23.33%) SC Cleared
5 18 (20.00%) CCNA
6 9 (10.00%) CCIE
6 9 (10.00%) CCIE Service Provider
7 8 (8.89%) CCDP
8 6 (6.67%) Degree
9 3 (3.33%) BC Cleared
9 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.33%) CCIP
9 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (2.22%) CCSK
10 2 (2.22%) CCSP
10 2 (2.22%) CISM
10 2 (2.22%) CISSP
11 1 (1.11%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.33%) NCSC
3 2 (2.22%) GRC
3 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.22%) NIST
4 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 25 (27.78%) Firmware
2 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.22%) XenApp
3 1 (1.11%) Docker
3 1 (1.11%) Terminal Server
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Ansible
2 4 (4.44%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.33%) Kibana
3 3 (3.33%) Nagios
3 3 (3.33%) OpenView
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.22%) Nmap
4 2 (2.22%) OpenNMS
4 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.22%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.11%) Grafana
5 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (58.89%) Cisco
2 24 (26.67%) Palo Alto
3 19 (21.11%) Nokia
4 18 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 15 (16.67%) Citrix
5 15 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 15 (16.67%) Google
6 13 (14.44%) Atlassian
7 11 (12.22%) Microsoft
8 9 (10.00%) Juniper
9 8 (8.89%) Aruba
10 6 (6.67%) Meraki
10 6 (6.67%) Zscaler
11 5 (5.56%) Arista
11 5 (5.56%) Splunk
12 4 (4.44%) F5
13 3 (3.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
13 3 (3.33%) BigPanda
13 3 (3.33%) Infoblox
14 2 (2.22%) QinetiQ