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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 462 496
Rank change year-on-year -28 +34 +178
Contract jobs citing SNMP 32 50 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.96% 1.31% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 56
10th Percentile £365 £254 £319
25th Percentile £409 £373 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £411 £488
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -15.64% -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £438 £551
90th Percentile £688 £500 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £425 £483
% change year-on-year +29.41% -12.01% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 12
10th Percentile - £62.50 £24.55
25th Percentile - - £30.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +19.15% +11.09%
75th Percentile - - £67.19
90th Percentile - £72.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +21.74% +4.55%

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 3,341 3,805 5,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.49% 12.23% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,151 2,203 3,541
10th Percentile £213 £235 £213
25th Percentile £360 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 131 320
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £27.00 £23.77
Median hourly rate £34.00 £55.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -38.18% -2.64% +36.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £48.03 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.13% -12.67% +35.55%

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 2 November 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 2 November 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 +17 17 £538 +4.88% 2
South East -2 7 £325 - 2
North of England -44 7 £409 +0.37% 3
North West -27 4 £403 +79.00% 1
Yorkshire -37 3 £675 +65.64% 2
Midlands -26 1 £550 +10.00% 2
West Midlands -30 1 £550 +10.00% 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 6 (18.75%) OpenStack
2 3 (9.38%) TPMS
3 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) Akamai
3 6 (18.75%) OpenShift
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) BGP
1 14 (43.75%) Firewall
2 13 (40.63%) OSPF
3 9 (28.13%) WAN
4 7 (21.88%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (21.88%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (21.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (21.88%) MPLS
4 7 (21.88%) Wireshark
5 6 (18.75%) LAN
5 6 (18.75%) SSH
5 6 (18.75%) TACACS
5 6 (18.75%) Wireless
6 5 (15.63%) SSL
6 5 (15.63%) VPN
7 3 (9.38%) Network Security
7 3 (9.38%) SD-WAN
7 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
8 2 (6.25%) VLAN
9 1 (3.13%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 9 (28.13%) Documentation Skills
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Designer
3 6 (18.75%) IP Designer
4 5 (15.63%) Cryptography Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Juniper Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Network Designer
6 2 (6.25%) Network Integration Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) OSS Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) gRPC
1 1 (3.13%) NETCONF
1 1 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 8 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Incident Response
2 9 (28.13%) Validation
3 7 (21.88%) High Availability
3 7 (21.88%) Network Segmentation
4 6 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (18.75%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (15.63%) Cryptography
5 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (15.63%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (15.63%) Observability
6 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 4 (12.50%) Server Building
7 3 (9.38%) Data Security
7 3 (9.38%) DevOps
7 3 (9.38%) OWASP
7 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
7 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 4 (12.50%) Bash
2 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.38%) Java
3 3 (9.38%) Perl
3 3 (9.38%) SQL
4 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) AWS Certification
2 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) CCIE
3 7 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (21.88%) JNCIE
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (9.38%) FFIEC
5 2 (6.25%) CEH
5 2 (6.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) PCI DSS
2 4 (12.50%) NIST
3 3 (9.38%) GDPR
3 3 (9.38%) GLBA
4 2 (6.25%) FIPS 140-2
5 1 (3.13%) GRC
5 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (21.88%) Docker
3 6 (18.75%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
1 7 (21.88%) FortiGate
1 7 (21.88%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Cisco
1 18 (56.25%) Juniper
2 13 (40.63%) F5
2 13 (40.63%) Fortinet
3 10 (31.25%) VMware
4 7 (21.88%) SolarWinds
5 5 (15.63%) Splunk
6 4 (12.50%) Thales
7 3 (9.38%) AppDynamics
7 3 (9.38%) Dynatrace
7 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
8 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
9 1 (3.13%) Mellanox
9 1 (3.13%) Meraki
9 1 (3.13%) NVIDIA
9 1 (3.13%) Qualys
9 1 (3.13%) Remedy
9 1 (3.13%) Tenable