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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 476 501
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +186
Contract jobs citing SNMP 28 50 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.86% 1.27% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 69
10th Percentile £313 £350 £376
25th Percentile £463 £373 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £619 £503 £588
90th Percentile £670 £600 £690
UK median daily rate £600 £425 £494
% change year-on-year +41.18% -13.92% -3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 9
10th Percentile £53.25 £56.78 £23.30
25th Percentile £54.38 - £32.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% +13.45%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £66.25
90th Percentile - £72.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% +13.26%

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 3,242 3,927 5,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 12.05% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,020 2,310 3,639
10th Percentile £235 £248 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +2.12% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £478 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.43% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 223 280
10th Percentile £15.02 £14.33 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.08 £22.58 £23.07
Median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £51.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.69% -9.72% +34.50%

SNMP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SNMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SNMP 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 +25 16 £600 +71.43% 4
South East +18 10 £325 -23.53% 11
West Midlands -15 1 £550 +10.00% 2
Midlands -16 1 £550 +10.00% 2
Yorkshire -22 1 - - 4
North of England -30 1 - - 4
SNMP
UK

SNMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) OpenStack
2 3 (10.71%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Akamai
3 6 (21.43%) OpenShift
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) BGP
2 13 (46.43%) OSPF
3 9 (32.14%) Firewall
3 9 (32.14%) WAN
4 7 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (25.00%) MPLS
4 7 (25.00%) Wireshark
5 6 (21.43%) LAN
5 6 (21.43%) TACACS
5 6 (21.43%) Wireless
6 4 (14.29%) SSH
7 3 (10.71%) HTTP
7 3 (10.71%) Network Security
7 3 (10.71%) SD-WAN
7 3 (10.71%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (10.71%) SSL
8 1 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (3.57%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
2 3 (10.71%) GoogleTest
2 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Network Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Designer
3 6 (21.43%) IP Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Cryptography Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Juniper Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Test Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Test Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Network Designer
5 2 (7.14%) Network Integration Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) CSS
1 3 (10.71%) HTML
1 3 (10.71%) Node.js
2 1 (3.57%) gRPC
2 1 (3.57%) NETCONF
2 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Data Centre
2 8 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.14%) PKI
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Validation
2 10 (35.71%) Incident Response
3 7 (25.00%) High Availability
3 7 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
4 6 (21.43%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (17.86%) UML
6 4 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (10.71%) Agile
7 3 (10.71%) Cryptography
7 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (10.71%) DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Integration Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Observability
7 3 (10.71%) Scrum
7 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
7 3 (10.71%) SysML
7 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
7 3 (10.71%) Verification and Validation
8 2 (7.14%) Key Management
8 2 (7.14%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) Java
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) C++
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) AWS Certification
2 7 (25.00%) CCIE
2 7 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (25.00%) JNCIE
3 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (7.14%) CEH
5 2 (7.14%) CISSP
6 1 (3.57%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.14%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) GLBA
3 1 (3.57%) GRC
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (21.43%) VMware NSX
2 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Ansible
1 7 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 7 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Juniper
2 13 (46.43%) Cisco
2 13 (46.43%) F5
2 13 (46.43%) Fortinet
3 7 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 6 (21.43%) VMware
5 3 (10.71%) AppDynamics
5 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
5 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
5 3 (10.71%) Splunk
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.14%) Thales
7 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
7 1 (3.57%) Google
7 1 (3.57%) Mellanox
7 1 (3.57%) NVIDIA
7 1 (3.57%) Qualys
7 1 (3.57%) Remedy
7 1 (3.57%) Tenable