The first table below looks at the demand for SNMP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SNMP over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Rank 444 413 424
Rank change year-on-year
-31 +11
Contract jobs citing SNMP 86 165 167
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.185% 0.283% 0.272%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.268% 1.813% 2.116%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 62 47
Average daily rate £300 £328 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.39% +0.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £245 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £465 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £283
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 11
Average hourly rate £26.50 £42.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.64% +23.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £24.50 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.75 £56.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £52.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-60.95% +52.17%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6782 9103 7893
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.62% 15.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3331 4145 3588
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
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 £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 606 785
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%

SNMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

SNMP Daily Rate Trend

SNMP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SNMP within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

SNMP Hourly Rate Trend

SNMP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SNMP within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

SNMP Hourly Rate Histogram

SNMP
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England -34 82 £313 -4.58%
London -4 36 £400 +11.11%
East of England +19 14 £286 -1.29%
Cambridgeshire +14 10 £298 +2.58%
South East -20 10 £323 +15.17%
West Midlands +14 8 £250 -28.57%
City of London +7 7 £230 -37.62%
Worcestershire - 7 £250 -
Cambridge +6 6 £298 +2.58%
North West +6 6 £280 -6.66%
Redditch - 6 £250 -
South West +15 4 £328 +25.04%
Wiltshire +4 4 £328 +34.66%
Altrincham +2 4 £280 -13.84%
Manchester +2 4 £280 -6.66%
Berkshire -24 4 £280 -6.66%
Hertfordshire +7 3 - -
Hampshire -3 3 £365 +72.98%
West Sussex - 3 - -
Cheshire +6 2 £300 -
West Yorkshire +4 2 - -
East Midlands +3 2 - -
Nottinghamshire 0 2 - -
Yorkshire 0 2 - -
Reading -14 2 - -
Chester - 2 £300 -
Peterborough - 2 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 2 - -
Halifax - 2 - -
Belfast - 2 - -

SNMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 98 (48.51%) Cisco
2 72 (35.64%) Windows
3 63 (31.19%) Firewall
4 62 (30.69%) DNS
5 57 (28.22%) Cisco Certification
6 55 (27.23%) VMware
7 54 (26.73%) HP
8 51 (25.25%) TCP/IP
8 51 (25.25%) Linux
9 46 (22.77%) OSPF
10 44 (21.78%) Network Management
11 43 (21.29%) Security Cleared
11 43 (21.29%) BGP
12 42 (20.79%) LAN
13 41 (20.30%) Juniper
14 40 (19.80%) WAN
15 39 (19.31%) SMTP
16 38 (18.81%) DHCP
17 37 (18.32%) CCNA
18 36 (17.82%) IPsec
18 36 (17.82%) VLAN
19 35 (17.33%) CCNP
19 35 (17.33%) VPN
20 32 (15.84%) Microsoft
20 32 (15.84%) MPLS
21 28 (13.86%) Wireless
21 28 (13.86%) Windows Server 2008
22 27 (13.37%) VMware Infrastructure
23 26 (12.87%) Cisco Nexus
23 26 (12.87%) Telecoms

SNMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (5.941%) XML
2 11 (5.446%) .NET
3 9 (4.455%) HTML
3 9 (4.455%) Web Services
4 8 (3.960%) Middleware
5 7 (3.465%) WCF
5 7 (3.465%) SOAP
5 7 (3.465%) CSS
6 6 (2.970%) JDBC
6 6 (2.970%) ASP.NET
6 6 (2.970%) WPF
6 6 (2.970%) LINQ
6 6 (2.970%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.970%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 6 (2.970%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 5 (2.475%) Reactive Extensions
7 5 (2.475%) .NET Remoting
7 5 (2.475%) jQuery
7 5 (2.475%) Ajax
8 4 (1.980%) CORBA
Application Platforms
1 20 (9.901%) Apache
2 10 (4.950%) Tomcat
2 10 (4.950%) IIS
3 8 (3.960%) MS Exchange
3 8 (3.960%) Liferay
4 5 (2.475%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.980%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (1.980%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (1.980%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (1.980%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (1.485%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (1.485%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.990%) ESB
8 1 (0.495%) Jetty
8 1 (0.495%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.495%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.495%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 14 (6.931%) MS Excel
2 13 (6.436%) MS Office
3 1 (0.495%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.495%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.485%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 63 (31.19%) Firewall
2 62 (30.69%) DNS
3 51 (25.25%) TCP/IP
4 46 (22.77%) OSPF
5 43 (21.29%) BGP
6 42 (20.79%) LAN
7 40 (19.80%) WAN
8 39 (19.31%) SMTP
9 38 (18.81%) DHCP
10 36 (17.82%) IPsec
10 36 (17.82%) VLAN
11 35 (17.33%) VPN
12 32 (15.84%) MPLS
13 28 (13.86%) Wireless
14 26 (12.87%) Cisco Nexus
15 25 (12.38%) Cisco ASA
15 25 (12.38%) SAN
16 24 (11.88%) Ethernet
16 24 (11.88%) VoIP
17 22 (10.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.911%) MySQL
2 12 (5.941%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.446%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.455%) Oracle BI EE
5 7 (3.465%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (2.970%) SQL Server 2012
7 5 (2.475%) SAP Data Services
7 5 (2.475%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.475%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.980%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (1.485%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.485%) GIS
10 1 (0.495%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.495%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.495%) DB2
10 1 (0.495%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 10 (4.950%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.960%) Hudson
2 8 (3.960%) Git (software)
3 6 (2.970%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.970%) Selenium
4 5 (2.475%) Expression Blend
4 5 (2.475%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (1.980%) Rational Rose
5 4 (1.980%) Telelogic TAU
6 3 (1.485%) JUnit
6 3 (1.485%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.485%) Introscope
6 3 (1.485%) TestNG
7 2 (0.990%) MyEclipse
7 2 (0.990%) Subversion
7 2 (0.990%) JIRA
7 2 (0.990%) Mercurial
General
1 26 (12.87%) Telecoms
2 21 (10.40%) Finance
3 11 (5.446%) Banking
4 5 (2.475%) Investment Banking
5 4 (1.980%) German Language
5 4 (1.980%) Military
6 3 (1.485%) Back Office
7 1 (0.495%) Electronics
7 1 (0.495%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.495%) Portuguese Language
7 1 (0.495%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.495%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (31.68%) Network Engineer
2 18 (8.911%) Developer
3 17 (8.416%) Administrator
4 15 (7.426%) Systems Engineer
5 14 (6.931%) Architect
5 14 (6.931%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (6.436%) Systems Administrator
7 12 (5.941%) Linux Administrator
8 11 (5.446%) Infrastructure Architect
8 11 (5.446%) Consultant
9 10 (4.950%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.950%) Cisco Engineer
10 9 (4.455%) IP Engineer
11 8 (3.960%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 7 (3.465%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 7 (3.465%) Firewall Engineer
12 7 (3.465%) Implementation Engineer
13 6 (2.970%) Analyst
13 6 (2.970%) Designer
13 6 (2.970%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.426%) Open Source
2 13 (6.436%) Computer Science
3 12 (5.941%) Cryptography
4 11 (5.446%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.455%) Clustering
6 7 (3.465%) Client/Server
7 6 (2.970%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.475%) SecurID
9 4 (1.980%) Mathematics
9 4 (1.980%) Physics
9 4 (1.980%) Blackberry
9 4 (1.980%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.485%) iSeries
10 3 (1.485%) Digital Media
10 3 (1.485%) Device Driver
10 3 (1.485%) Statistics
11 2 (0.990%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.990%) Streaming Media
11 2 (0.990%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.495%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 72 (35.64%) Windows
2 51 (25.25%) Linux
3 28 (13.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 25 (12.38%) UNIX
5 19 (9.406%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (7.426%) Solaris
7 14 (6.931%) CentOS
8 12 (5.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (5.446%) Ubuntu
10 9 (4.455%) Debian
10 9 (4.455%) Windows 7
11 7 (3.465%) Windows 8
12 6 (2.970%) Gentoo
12 6 (2.970%) FreeBSD
13 5 (2.475%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (1.980%) VMS
15 3 (1.485%) AIX
15 3 (1.485%) Android
15 3 (1.485%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.990%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.78%) Network Management
2 22 (10.89%) ITIL
3 15 (7.426%) SOA
4 14 (6.931%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (6.931%) Scrum
5 12 (5.941%) Incident Management
6 11 (5.446%) Project Management
7 9 (4.455%) MVVM
8 8 (3.960%) Load Balancing
9 7 (3.465%) Migration
9 7 (3.465%) PRINCE2
9 7 (3.465%) UML
9 7 (3.465%) Memory Management
9 7 (3.465%) Network Architecture
9 7 (3.465%) Project Planning
10 6 (2.970%) Multithreading
10 6 (2.970%) Performance Management
10 6 (2.970%) Workflow
11 5 (2.475%) Configuration Management
12 4 (1.980%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.406%) SQL
2 18 (8.911%) Perl
2 18 (8.911%) Shell Script
3 17 (8.416%) C#
4 14 (6.931%) Bash shell
5 13 (6.436%) Python
6 12 (5.941%) C++
7 11 (5.446%) Java
8 7 (3.465%) C
9 5 (2.475%) AWK
9 5 (2.475%) sed
9 5 (2.475%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.990%) Ruby
10 2 (0.990%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.990%) PHP
10 2 (0.990%) VBScript
11 1 (0.495%) Korn
11 1 (0.495%) XPath
11 1 (0.495%) Jython
Qualifications
1 57 (28.22%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (21.29%) Security Cleared
3 37 (18.32%) CCNA
4 35 (17.33%) CCNP
5 23 (11.39%) Degree
6 21 (10.40%) SC Cleared
7 15 (7.426%) CCIE
8 12 (5.941%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.960%) RHCE
10 7 (3.465%) JNCIE
10 7 (3.465%) HP APS
11 6 (2.970%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.970%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (2.475%) MCSE
13 4 (1.980%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.980%) GCSC
14 3 (1.485%) JNCIP
15 2 (0.990%) Network+ Certification
15 2 (0.990%) CCDP
16 1 (0.495%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.436%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.475%) SLA
3 3 (1.485%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.990%) QA
System Software
1 27 (13.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (11.39%) Active Directory
3 17 (8.416%) NFS
4 16 (7.921%) Postfix
5 14 (6.931%) vSphere
6 12 (5.941%) VMware ESX
7 10 (4.950%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (3.960%) Squid
9 5 (2.475%) Nmap
10 4 (1.980%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.980%) XenDesktop
11 3 (1.485%) XenApp
11 3 (1.485%) Samba
12 2 (0.990%) ProxySG
12 2 (0.990%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.990%) SRDF
12 2 (0.990%) Varnish
13 1 (0.495%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 26 (12.87%) Nagios
2 21 (10.40%) OpenView
3 15 (7.426%) Puppet
4 13 (6.436%) WhatsUp Gold
4 13 (6.436%) Tivoli
4 13 (6.436%) Netcool
5 12 (5.941%) SCOM
5 12 (5.941%) Cacti
6 10 (4.950%) Cisco CUCM
6 10 (4.950%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 7 (3.465%) CiscoWorks
7 7 (3.465%) WMI
7 7 (3.465%) FortiGate
7 7 (3.465%) Splunk
8 5 (2.475%) SCCM
8 5 (2.475%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.980%) HP NNM
9 4 (1.980%) Cobbler
10 3 (1.485%) HP SiteScope
10 3 (1.485%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 98 (48.51%) Cisco
2 55 (27.23%) VMware
3 54 (26.73%) HP
4 41 (20.30%) Juniper
5 32 (15.84%) Microsoft
6 26 (12.87%) Oracle
7 25 (12.38%) Red Hat
8 22 (10.89%) F5
9 17 (8.416%) Citrix
10 16 (7.921%) Nokia
10 16 (7.921%) SolarWinds
11 14 (6.931%) EMC
12 13 (6.436%) SAP
12 13 (6.436%) IBM
13 12 (5.941%) NetApp
13 12 (5.941%) Blue Coat
14 11 (5.446%) CheckPoint
15 8 (3.960%) Dell
16 7 (3.465%) Compaq
16 7 (3.465%) 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
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Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £19.00 - £20.00 per hour
Posted: 18 May 2013
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Orgtel
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Proviso, eHealth, MDM or Network Node Manager * SNMP * Perl Scripting * Juniper firewalls * Applying security patches to Solaris and Windows O/S. * Testing skills Desirable skills and experience: * SRX3600...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 13 May 2013
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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
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System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM) VMWARE ESXi 4.0, 5.0, VSphere. Citrix XenApp 5.0, 6.0. Cisco Layer 2\CAT switching, ASA Firewall. HP Proliant Server,...
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Rate: £39,000 per annum
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WorldPay
Posted: 19 May 2013
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E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £425 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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