SNMP Contract Job Trends in England

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SNMP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 483 471
Rank change year-on-year -64 -12 +46
Contract jobs citing SNMP 66 25 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.090% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.54% 0.73% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 11 34
10th Percentile £298 £313 £275
25th Percentile £325 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £416
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +14.11% -22.20%
75th Percentile £579 £550 £515
90th Percentile £698 £600 £582
UK median daily rate £487 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -2.60% +17.65% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 15
10th Percentile £30.32 £51.49 £56.78
25th Percentile £37.05 £52.14 -
Median hourly rate £51.50 £56.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -19.64% +180.00%
75th Percentile £56.56 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £57.65 - £72.25
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.44% -19.64% +180.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

SNMP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,291 3,415 4,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.41% 12.34% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,598 2,119 2,572
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £403 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 167 282
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.75 £44.00 £54.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.93% -19.91% +3.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.88 £49.50
% change year-on-year -44.53% -5.30% -5.71%

SNMP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SNMP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

SNMP job vacancy trend in England

SNMP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SNMP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SNMP

SNMP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SNMP in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SNMP in England

SNMP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SNMP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SNMP

SNMP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SNMP in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SNMP in England

SNMP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SNMP within the England region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
London -70 16 £500 +5.26% 11
South West - 16 £371 - 1
West Midlands -36 11 £573 +4.18% 1
Midlands -41 11 £573 +4.18% 1
South East -67 7 £325 - 2
East of England - 7 £550 - 2
North of England - 6 £350 - 2
North West - 3 £350 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 - -
SNMP
UK

SNMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.06%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.12%) AWS
1 8 (12.12%) Azure
2 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (6.06%) OpenShift
3 2 (3.03%) Datadog
3 2 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.52%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.52%) IBM Watson
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.70%) DNS
2 12 (18.18%) WAN
3 11 (16.67%) DHCP
3 11 (16.67%) Firewall
4 10 (15.15%) BGP
4 10 (15.15%) TCP/IP
5 8 (12.12%) TACACS
6 7 (10.61%) MPLS
7 6 (9.09%) LAN
7 6 (9.09%) VPN
8 5 (7.58%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (7.58%) SD-WAN
8 5 (7.58%) VLAN
9 4 (6.06%) EIGRP
9 4 (6.06%) OSPF
9 4 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (4.55%) ICMP
10 3 (4.55%) Network Security
10 3 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.52%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.06%) Finance
5 2 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.52%) Police
6 1 (1.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Consultant
2 12 (18.18%) Management Consultant
3 8 (12.12%) Network Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Administrator
5 4 (6.06%) Network Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Network Consultant
6 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Consultant
6 3 (4.55%) IP Network Consultant
6 3 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Senior
7 2 (3.03%) IP Specialist
7 2 (3.03%) Network Support
7 2 (3.03%) Network Support Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.52%) Configuration Manager
8 1 (1.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (1.52%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.79%) REST
2 9 (13.64%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (10.61%) NETCONF
3 7 (10.61%) YANG
4 6 (9.09%) OpenConfig
4 6 (9.09%) RESTCONF
5 5 (7.58%) eBPF
6 3 (4.55%) Redfish
7 1 (1.52%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.52%) JSON
7 1 (1.52%) RESTful
7 1 (1.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.58%) CMDB
4 4 (6.06%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) Life Science
6 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.52%) SCADA
6 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (39.39%) Linux
2 24 (36.36%) Windows
3 16 (24.24%) AIX
4 1 (1.52%) Unix
4 1 (1.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) Dashboard Development
2 21 (31.82%) Observability
3 12 (18.18%) Change Management
4 10 (15.15%) ITSM
4 10 (15.15%) Project Delivery
4 10 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 9 (13.64%) Network Management
5 9 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (12.12%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (10.61%) Architectural Design
7 7 (10.61%) Capacity Planning
7 7 (10.61%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.61%) DevOps
7 7 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
7 7 (10.61%) SIEM
8 6 (9.09%) AIOps
8 6 (9.09%) Network Design
8 6 (9.09%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 38 (57.58%) Python
2 21 (31.82%) SQL
3 18 (27.27%) Search Processing Language
4 17 (25.76%) PowerShell
5 9 (13.64%) Bash
6 2 (3.03%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 21 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.70%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (12.12%) DV Cleared
5 7 (10.61%) CCIE
6 6 (9.09%) JNCIE
7 5 (7.58%) CCNA
8 3 (4.55%) CCNP
9 2 (3.03%) Degree
10 1 (1.52%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.52%) CISM
10 1 (1.52%) CISSP
10 1 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.52%) ECDL
10 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.52%) MCSE
10 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.06%) Firmware
3 3 (4.55%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.03%) vSphere
5 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.52%) Docker
5 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.52%) NDS
5 1 (1.52%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 1 (1.52%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 22 (33.33%) ZABBIX
2 20 (30.30%) Ansible
3 19 (28.79%) Nagios
4 16 (24.24%) Netcool
5 15 (22.73%) Tivoli
6 13 (19.70%) OpenView
6 13 (19.70%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 10 (15.15%) Terraform
8 9 (13.64%) Prometheus
9 7 (10.61%) Grafana
9 7 (10.61%) WMI
10 2 (3.03%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
11 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (50.00%) Splunk
2 29 (43.94%) SolarWinds
3 22 (33.33%) Cisco
4 19 (28.79%) F5
5 18 (27.27%) Fortinet
6 17 (25.76%) BMC
7 15 (22.73%) IBM
8 14 (21.21%) ServiceNow
9 13 (19.70%) HP
10 12 (18.18%) Palo Alto
11 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
12 9 (13.64%) VMware
13 7 (10.61%) Juniper
14 5 (7.58%) Cribl.io
14 5 (7.58%) Dynatrace
15 4 (6.06%) CheckPoint
15 4 (6.06%) Infoblox
15 4 (6.06%) SevOne
16 3 (4.55%) Blue Coat
16 3 (4.55%) Dell