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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 445 479
Rank change year-on-year -72 +34 +137
Contract jobs citing SNMP 44 39 76
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.26% 1.15% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 5 46
10th Percentile £300 £404 £331
25th Percentile £403 £413 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -29.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £688 £438 £613
90th Percentile £690 £550 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £420 £600
% change year-on-year +30.95% -30.00% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 19
10th Percentile £47.63 £44.31 £24.85
25th Percentile £51.78 £58.47 £51.88
Median hourly rate £60.63 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +0.81% +18.10%
75th Percentile £67.55 - £68.13
90th Percentile £70.54 £62.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £60.63 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +0.81% +14.71%

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 3,500 3,393 5,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.30% 13.01% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,278 1,984 3,169
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £353 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £679 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 101 382
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.48
25th Percentile £18.59 £20.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.38 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.91% -26.32% +138.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £71.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.38 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -12.68% -31.58% +143.59%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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
North of England -54 18 £675 +58.82% 2
Yorkshire -52 12 £675 +58.82%
South East -29 11 £300 - 9
London -34 10 £475 - 4
North West -22 6 £403 - 2
West Midlands -47 5 £300 -29.41% 1
Midlands -50 5 £300 -29.41% 1
South West - 3 £300 - 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 11 (25.00%) TPMS
2 4 (9.09%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) AWS
2 5 (11.36%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.55%) Azure
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) Akamai
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) IaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.27%) PaaS
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (43.18%) SSH
2 15 (34.09%) SSL
3 11 (25.00%) Firewall
3 11 (25.00%) TACACS
3 11 (25.00%) WAN
4 10 (22.73%) BGP
5 9 (20.45%) MPLS
6 8 (18.18%) OSPF
6 8 (18.18%) TCP/IP
6 8 (18.18%) VPN
7 7 (15.91%) LAN
8 5 (11.36%) FTP
8 5 (11.36%) SD-WAN
8 5 (11.36%) Wireless
8 5 (11.36%) Wireshark
9 4 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (9.09%) DHCP
9 4 (9.09%) DNS
9 4 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
10 3 (6.82%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.27%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 16 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (11.36%) Telecoms
5 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.27%) Military
7 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Cryptography Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Designer
3 4 (9.09%) IP Designer
4 3 (6.82%) Operations Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) OSS Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) OSS Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) OSS Systems Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Systems Support
4 3 (6.82%) Systems Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Test Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) IP Specialist
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) NETCONF
1 2 (4.55%) OpenConfig
1 2 (4.55%) RESTCONF
1 2 (4.55%) YANG
2 1 (2.27%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 8 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 4 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.55%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (43.18%) Windows
2 16 (36.36%) Linux
3 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (27.27%) Cryptography
2 12 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (27.27%) Observability
3 11 (25.00%) Data Security
3 11 (25.00%) OWASP
3 11 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (15.91%) Incident Response
5 5 (11.36%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (11.36%) Load Balancing
5 5 (11.36%) Network Design
6 4 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 4 (9.09%) ITIL
6 4 (9.09%) Migration
6 4 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (9.09%) Server Building
6 4 (9.09%) Validation
7 3 (6.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) Bash
3 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.09%) SQL
4 3 (6.82%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) Perl
5 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.00%) FFIEC
2 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 8 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (15.91%) CCIE
5 6 (13.64%) JNCIE
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.55%) CCNP
8 1 (2.27%) CCDA
8 1 (2.27%) CCDP
8 1 (2.27%) CCIP
8 1 (2.27%) CCNA
8 1 (2.27%) CEH
8 1 (2.27%) CISSP
8 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (2.27%) OCP
8 1 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.27%) PCI DSS
2 11 (25.00%) GDPR
2 11 (25.00%) GLBA
2 11 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) FIPS 140-2
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.91%) Docker
3 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.27%) Firmware
5 1 (2.27%) KVM
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Ansible
2 7 (15.91%) Terraform
3 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (4.55%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.27%) Backup Exec
5 1 (2.27%) Cacti
5 1 (2.27%) CASB
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.27%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.27%) Fluentd
5 1 (2.27%) Grafana
5 1 (2.27%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) SCOM
5 1 (2.27%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (2.27%) WSUS
5 1 (2.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (50.00%) Cisco
2 12 (27.27%) Juniper
2 12 (27.27%) Splunk
3 11 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 11 (25.00%) Thales
3 11 (25.00%) VMware
4 8 (18.18%) F5
5 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
6 5 (11.36%) Meraki
7 3 (6.82%) AppDynamics
7 3 (6.82%) Arista
7 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
8 2 (4.55%) Aruba
8 2 (4.55%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.55%) Ciena
8 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.55%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.27%) Ericsson
9 1 (2.27%) Nokia
9 1 (2.27%) Symantec