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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 492 489
Rank change year-on-year -70 -3 +31
Contract jobs citing SNMP 63 20 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.073% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.48% 0.58% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 10 34
10th Percentile £298 £306 £275
25th Percentile £325 £463 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +9.83% -17.62%
75th Percentile £579 £519 £515
90th Percentile £698 £586 £593
UK median daily rate £487 £488 £438
% change year-on-year -0.10% +11.43% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 14
10th Percentile £30.51 £51.49 £63.00
25th Percentile £37.52 £52.14 -
Median hourly rate £49.19 £56.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.55% -19.64% +268.42%
75th Percentile £60.87 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £67.87 - £72.63
UK median hourly rate £49.19 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.55% -19.64% +268.42%

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 4,252 3,427 4,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 12.49% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,594 2,137 2,679
10th Percentile £263 £235 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 161 312
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £18.00
Median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.62% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.10 £87.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.76% +8.33% -10.00%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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
London -65 15 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -42 10 £573 +4.18% 1
West Midlands -43 10 £573 +4.18% 1
East of England - 7 £550 - 3
South East -68 6 £425 +30.77% 2
North of England - 5 £313 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North West - 2 £313 - 2
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 (6.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) AWS
1 8 (12.70%) Azure
2 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (6.35%) OpenShift
3 3 (4.76%) GCP
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.17%) Datadog
4 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.17%) SaaS
5 1 (1.59%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.59%) IaaS
5 1 (1.59%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) Firewall
1 11 (17.46%) WAN
2 9 (14.29%) DNS
3 8 (12.70%) BGP
3 8 (12.70%) TCP/IP
4 7 (11.11%) DHCP
4 7 (11.11%) MPLS
5 6 (9.52%) TACACS
5 6 (9.52%) VPN
6 5 (7.94%) LAN
7 4 (6.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (6.35%) ICMP
7 4 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (4.76%) OSPF
9 2 (3.17%) EIGRP
9 2 (3.17%) IPsec
9 2 (3.17%) Network Security
9 2 (3.17%) SSH
9 2 (3.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.59%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Git
2 3 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.76%) Finance
5 2 (3.17%) Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Police
6 1 (1.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Consultant
2 12 (19.05%) Management Consultant
3 6 (9.52%) Architect
4 5 (7.94%) Network Architect
4 5 (7.94%) Network Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Administrator
5 4 (6.35%) Network Consultant
5 4 (6.35%) Senior
6 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Consultant
6 3 (4.76%) IP Network Consultant
6 3 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) IP Specialist
7 2 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) Automation Specialist
8 1 (1.59%) Lead
8 1 (1.59%) Monitoring Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (30.16%) REST
2 9 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (11.11%) NETCONF
3 7 (11.11%) YANG
4 6 (9.52%) OpenConfig
4 6 (9.52%) RESTCONF
5 5 (7.94%) eBPF
6 3 (4.76%) Redfish
7 2 (3.17%) 802.1X
8 1 (1.59%) JSON
8 1 (1.59%) RESTful
8 1 (1.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.35%) Private Cloud
5 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.17%) CMDB
6 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.59%) PKI
7 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.86%) Linux
2 25 (39.68%) Windows
3 16 (25.40%) AIX
4 2 (3.17%) VMS
5 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.92%) Dashboard Development
2 20 (31.75%) Observability
3 10 (15.87%) ITSM
3 10 (15.87%) Project Delivery
3 10 (15.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (14.29%) Change Management
4 9 (14.29%) Network Management
4 9 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (12.70%) SIEM
6 7 (11.11%) Architectural Design
6 7 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (11.11%) DevOps
6 7 (11.11%) Network Design
6 7 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (9.52%) AIOps
7 6 (9.52%) Anomaly Detection
7 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 6 (9.52%) Incident Response
7 6 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 37 (58.73%) Python
2 21 (33.33%) SQL
3 17 (26.98%) PowerShell
3 17 (26.98%) Search Processing Language
4 9 (14.29%) Bash
5 2 (3.17%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (46.03%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.92%) SC Cleared
3 11 (17.46%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 7 (11.11%) CCIE
6 6 (9.52%) JNCIE
7 4 (6.35%) CCNA
8 3 (4.76%) CCNP
9 2 (3.17%) Degree
9 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (1.59%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.59%) CCDA
10 1 (1.59%) CCDP
10 1 (1.59%) CCIP
10 1 (1.59%) CISM
10 1 (1.59%) CISSP
10 1 (1.59%) ECDL
10 1 (1.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.59%) NCSC
2 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.35%) Firmware
3 3 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.76%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.17%) vSphere
5 1 (1.59%) Docker
5 1 (1.59%) KVM
5 1 (1.59%) NDS
5 1 (1.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 1 (1.59%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 22 (34.92%) ZABBIX
2 20 (31.75%) Ansible
3 17 (26.98%) Nagios
4 16 (25.40%) Netcool
5 15 (23.81%) Tivoli
6 13 (20.63%) OpenView
6 13 (20.63%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 10 (15.87%) Terraform
8 9 (14.29%) Prometheus
9 7 (11.11%) Grafana
9 7 (11.11%) WMI
10 2 (3.17%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
11 1 (1.59%) CASB
11 1 (1.59%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (50.79%) Splunk
2 27 (42.86%) SolarWinds
3 20 (31.75%) Cisco
4 18 (28.57%) F5
4 18 (28.57%) Fortinet
5 17 (26.98%) BMC
6 15 (23.81%) IBM
7 14 (22.22%) HP
8 12 (19.05%) Palo Alto
8 12 (19.05%) ServiceNow
9 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
10 8 (12.70%) Juniper
11 7 (11.11%) VMware
12 5 (7.94%) CheckPoint
12 5 (7.94%) Cribl.io
12 5 (7.94%) Dynatrace
13 4 (6.35%) Infoblox
14 3 (4.76%) Blue Coat
14 3 (4.76%) Dell
15 2 (3.17%) Aruba