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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 462 479
Rank change year-on-year -90 +17 +65
Contract jobs citing SNMP 54 22 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.088% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.32% 0.68% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 8 50
10th Percentile £294 - £275
25th Percentile £341 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £508
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -4.08% -4.10%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £600
90th Percentile £704 £609 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £504
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.79% -4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 19
10th Percentile - £51.78 £46.65
25th Percentile - £53.22 £62.00
Median hourly rate £72.54 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.16% -17.86% +218.18%
75th Percentile - £59.78 -
90th Percentile - £61.31 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £72.54 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +26.16% -17.86% +218.18%

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 4,103 3,217 4,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.82% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,542 1,995 2,871
10th Percentile £250 £230 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 133 396
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.69 £13.68
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.82 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.96 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -27.60% -12.82% +141.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -38.04% - +136.84%

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 25 June 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
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 25 June 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 £371 - 1
West Midlands -49 9 £581 +5.64% 1
Midlands -51 9 £581 +5.64% 1
London -74 9 £613 +28.95% 1
North of England - 8 £675 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 £675 -
East of England -22 5 £550 -
South East -65 4 £525 - 5
North West - 2 £313 - 1
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 (7.41%) TPMS
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.11%) AWS
1 6 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (3.70%) GCP
3 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
3 2 (3.70%) SaaS
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.85%) Datadog
4 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.85%) IaaS
4 1 (1.85%) IBM Watson
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) DNS
2 8 (14.81%) DHCP
2 8 (14.81%) SSL
3 7 (12.96%) Firewall
3 7 (12.96%) SSH
4 6 (11.11%) WAN
5 5 (9.26%) BGP
5 5 (9.26%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (7.41%) MPLS
6 4 (7.41%) VPN
7 3 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (5.56%) OSPF
7 3 (5.56%) TACACS
8 2 (3.70%) BIG-IP
8 2 (3.70%) Internet
8 2 (3.70%) IPsec
8 2 (3.70%) Telnet
8 2 (3.70%) Wireless
8 2 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.85%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.70%) Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Police
7 1 (1.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Consultant
2 12 (22.22%) Management Consultant
3 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Network Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Cryptography Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior
6 3 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) IP Specialist
7 2 (3.70%) Windows Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Business Analyst
8 1 (1.85%) Lead
8 1 (1.85%) Network Support Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow Architect
8 1 (1.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.19%) REST
2 8 (14.81%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (7.41%) eBPF
3 4 (7.41%) NETCONF
3 4 (7.41%) YANG
4 3 (5.56%) OpenConfig
4 3 (5.56%) Redfish
4 3 (5.56%) RESTCONF
5 2 (3.70%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
1 5 (9.26%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.70%) CMDB
4 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (57.41%) Windows
2 30 (55.56%) Linux
3 16 (29.63%) AIX
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.85%) Unix
5 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 15 (27.78%) Observability
3 9 (16.67%) ITSM
3 9 (16.67%) Network Management
3 9 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 8 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (14.81%) Project Delivery
5 7 (12.96%) Architectural Design
6 6 (11.11%) DevOps
6 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (11.11%) SIEM
7 5 (9.26%) AIOps
7 5 (9.26%) Anomaly Detection
7 5 (9.26%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (9.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (7.41%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.41%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (7.41%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (57.41%) Python
2 21 (38.89%) SQL
3 17 (31.48%) PowerShell
3 17 (31.48%) Search Processing Language
4 7 (12.96%) Bash
5 2 (3.70%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 17 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) CCIE
4 4 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.41%) FFIEC
5 3 (5.56%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.85%) CCDA
6 1 (1.85%) CCDP
6 1 (1.85%) CCIP
6 1 (1.85%) CCNA
6 1 (1.85%) CCNP
6 1 (1.85%) Degree
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.85%) OCP
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) GDPR
1 4 (7.41%) GLBA
1 4 (7.41%) NIST
1 4 (7.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.56%) Firmware
2 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.70%) vSphere
3 1 (1.85%) KVM
3 1 (1.85%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Nagios
1 17 (31.48%) ZABBIX
2 16 (29.63%) Netcool
3 15 (27.78%) Ansible
3 15 (27.78%) Tivoli
4 13 (24.07%) OpenView
4 13 (24.07%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 9 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 8 (14.81%) Terraform
7 7 (12.96%) Grafana
7 7 (12.96%) WMI
8 2 (3.70%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
9 1 (1.85%) CASB
9 1 (1.85%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.85%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 34 (62.96%) Splunk
2 27 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 17 (31.48%) BMC
4 16 (29.63%) Cisco
5 15 (27.78%) F5
5 15 (27.78%) Fortinet
5 15 (27.78%) IBM
6 14 (25.93%) HP
7 12 (22.22%) ServiceNow
8 11 (20.37%) Palo Alto
9 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
10 5 (9.26%) Juniper
11 4 (7.41%) CheckPoint
11 4 (7.41%) Cribl.io
11 4 (7.41%) Dynatrace
11 4 (7.41%) Infoblox
11 4 (7.41%) Thales
11 4 (7.41%) VMware
12 3 (5.56%) Arista
12 3 (5.56%) Blue Coat