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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 479 464
Rank change year-on-year -81 -15 +50
Contract jobs citing SNMP 65 28 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.51% 0.83% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 13 32
10th Percentile £300 £343 £300
25th Percentile £325 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +9.83% -19.16%
75th Percentile £577 £575 £515
90th Percentile £694 £600 £594
UK median daily rate £487 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -2.60% +14.29% -16.67%
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% +27.27%
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% +27.27%

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 4,310 3,362 4,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.44% 12.20% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,606 2,083 2,545
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £504
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.38% +0.80%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £614
90th Percentile £687 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 169 277
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.23
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.75 £43.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% -20.73% -1.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% -5.61% -12.35%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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
South West - 17 £426 - 1
London -87 14 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -39 11 £573 +4.18%
West Midlands -41 11 £573 +4.18%
South East -66 7 £325 - 1
East of England - 7 £550 - 1
North of England - 6 £350 - 6
North West - 3 £350 - 6
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 (6.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (9.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.77%) AWS
1 7 (10.77%) Azure
2 4 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (6.15%) OpenShift
3 2 (3.08%) Datadog
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.54%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.54%) GCP
4 1 (1.54%) IBM Watson
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.54%) DNS
2 13 (20.00%) WAN
3 12 (18.46%) DHCP
4 11 (16.92%) BGP
4 11 (16.92%) Firewall
4 11 (16.92%) TCP/IP
5 8 (12.31%) TACACS
6 7 (10.77%) MPLS
6 7 (10.77%) VPN
7 6 (9.23%) LAN
8 5 (7.69%) OSPF
8 5 (7.69%) SD-WAN
8 5 (7.69%) VLAN
9 4 (6.15%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (6.15%) EIGRP
9 4 (6.15%) Network Security
9 4 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (4.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (4.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (4.62%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.54%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.15%) Finance
5 2 (3.08%) Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Police
6 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Consultant
2 12 (18.46%) Management Consultant
3 8 (12.31%) Network Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) Administrator
4 4 (6.15%) Architect
4 4 (6.15%) Network Architect
4 4 (6.15%) Network Consultant
5 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Consultant
5 3 (4.62%) IP Network Consultant
5 3 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) IP Specialist
6 2 (3.08%) Network Support
6 2 (3.08%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Senior
6 2 (3.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Support Engineer
7 1 (1.54%) Configuration Manager
7 1 (1.54%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (1.54%) Lead
7 1 (1.54%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.69%) REST
2 10 (15.38%) Terraform
3 9 (13.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (10.77%) NETCONF
4 7 (10.77%) YANG
5 6 (9.23%) OpenConfig
5 6 (9.23%) RESTCONF
6 5 (7.69%) eBPF
7 3 (4.62%) Redfish
8 1 (1.54%) 802.1X
8 1 (1.54%) JSON
8 1 (1.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.15%) CMDB
4 4 (6.15%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.15%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.54%) Life Science
6 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.54%) SCADA
6 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.00%) Linux
2 24 (36.92%) Windows
3 16 (24.62%) AIX
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
4 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.38%) Dashboard Development
2 21 (32.31%) Observability
3 11 (16.92%) Change Management
4 10 (15.38%) Network Management
4 10 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 10 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 9 (13.85%) ITSM
5 9 (13.85%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (13.85%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (10.77%) Architectural Design
6 7 (10.77%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
6 7 (10.77%) DevOps
6 7 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (10.77%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (10.77%) SIEM
7 6 (9.23%) AIOps
7 6 (9.23%) Anomaly Detection
7 6 (9.23%) Performance Analysis
7 6 (9.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (58.46%) Python
2 21 (32.31%) SQL
3 18 (27.69%) Search Processing Language
4 17 (26.15%) PowerShell
5 9 (13.85%) Bash
6 1 (1.54%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 27 (41.54%) Security Cleared
2 21 (32.31%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (12.31%) DV Cleared
5 7 (10.77%) CCIE
6 6 (9.23%) JNCIE
7 5 (7.69%) CCNA
8 3 (4.62%) CCNP
9 2 (3.08%) Degree
10 1 (1.54%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.54%) CISM
10 1 (1.54%) CISSP
10 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.54%) ECDL
10 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.54%) MCSE
10 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.15%) Firmware
3 3 (4.62%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.08%) vSphere
5 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.54%) Docker
5 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.54%) NDS
5 1 (1.54%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 1 (1.54%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (33.85%) ZABBIX
2 19 (29.23%) Ansible
2 19 (29.23%) Nagios
3 16 (24.62%) Netcool
4 15 (23.08%) Tivoli
5 13 (20.00%) OpenView
5 13 (20.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 9 (13.85%) Prometheus
7 7 (10.77%) Grafana
7 7 (10.77%) WMI
8 2 (3.08%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
9 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (49.23%) Splunk
2 28 (43.08%) SolarWinds
3 22 (33.85%) Cisco
4 19 (29.23%) F5
4 19 (29.23%) Fortinet
5 17 (26.15%) BMC
6 15 (23.08%) IBM
7 13 (20.00%) HP
7 13 (20.00%) ServiceNow
8 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
8 11 (16.92%) Palo Alto
9 9 (13.85%) VMware
10 7 (10.77%) Juniper
11 5 (7.69%) Cribl.io
11 5 (7.69%) Dynatrace
12 4 (6.15%) CheckPoint
12 4 (6.15%) SevOne
13 3 (4.62%) Blue Coat
13 3 (4.62%) Dell
13 3 (4.62%) NetScout