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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 485 478
Rank change year-on-year -73 -7 +74
Contract jobs citing SNMP 63 26 70
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.096% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.48% 0.76% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 10 43
10th Percentile £298 £306 £280
25th Percentile £325 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £581 £519 £575
90th Percentile £698 £586 £638
UK median daily rate £466 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -4.46% - -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 16
10th Percentile - £51.78 £41.63
25th Percentile - £53.22 £68.13
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 £71.88
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 4,256 3,417 4,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.64% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 2,129 2,881
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 149 388
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.93 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.98 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £41.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.83% -6.82% +60.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.03 £81.50 £74.30
UK median hourly rate £26.55 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.00% +8.43% +38.33%

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 10 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
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 10 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 -
London -69 14 £500 +5.26% 4
Midlands -47 9 £581 +5.64% 2
West Midlands -58 9 £581 +5.64% 2
East of England -26 7 £550 - 3
South East -59 7 £425 +30.77% 7
North of England - 6 £513 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £675 -
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
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) TPMS
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 5 (7.94%) OpenShift
3 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (4.76%) GCP
5 2 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.17%) Datadog
5 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.17%) SaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.59%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.59%) IaaS
6 1 (1.59%) IBM Watson
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) DNS
1 11 (17.46%) WAN
2 9 (14.29%) DHCP
2 9 (14.29%) Firewall
2 9 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 8 (12.70%) BGP
4 7 (11.11%) MPLS
5 6 (9.52%) SSH
5 6 (9.52%) SSL
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%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (4.76%) HTTP
8 3 (4.76%) OSPF
9 2 (3.17%) EIGRP
9 2 (3.17%) Internet
9 2 (3.17%) Telnet
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 5 (7.94%) Finance
5 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Police
7 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%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Network Consultant
5 4 (6.35%) Senior
6 3 (4.76%) Administrator
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%) Cryptography Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) IP Specialist
7 2 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Windows Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (1.59%) Lead
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 29 (46.03%) Windows
2 28 (44.44%) Linux
3 16 (25.40%) AIX
4 2 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.59%) Unix
5 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.16%) Dashboard Development
1 19 (30.16%) Observability
2 11 (17.46%) Project Delivery
3 10 (15.87%) ITSM
4 9 (14.29%) Network Management
4 9 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (12.70%) Change Management
5 8 (12.70%) DevOps
5 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
5 8 (12.70%) SIEM
6 7 (11.11%) Architectural Design
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%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (9.52%) Use Case
8 5 (7.94%) Performance Engineering
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 27 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.87%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 7 (11.11%) CCIE
6 6 (9.52%) JNCIE
7 3 (4.76%) CCNA
7 3 (4.76%) CCNP
8 2 (3.17%) FFIEC
9 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.59%) CCDA
9 1 (1.59%) CCDP
9 1 (1.59%) CCIP
9 1 (1.59%) CISM
9 1 (1.59%) CISSP
9 1 (1.59%) Degree
9 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.59%) OCP
9 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
2 2 (3.17%) GLBA
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) NIST
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) NCSC
3 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Firmware
2 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.17%) vSphere
4 1 (1.59%) Docker
4 1 (1.59%) KVM
4 1 (1.59%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 21 (33.33%) 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%) Prometheus
7 10 (15.87%) Terraform
8 8 (12.70%) Grafana
9 7 (11.11%) WMI
10 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
11 2 (3.17%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (1.59%) CASB
12 1 (1.59%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (1.59%) Fluentd
12 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (53.97%) Splunk
2 27 (42.86%) SolarWinds
3 20 (31.75%) Cisco
4 19 (30.16%) Fortinet
5 18 (28.57%) F5
6 17 (26.98%) BMC
7 15 (23.81%) IBM
8 14 (22.22%) HP
9 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
9 12 (19.05%) Palo Alto
9 12 (19.05%) ServiceNow
10 8 (12.70%) Juniper
11 5 (7.94%) CheckPoint
11 5 (7.94%) Cribl.io
11 5 (7.94%) Dynatrace
12 4 (6.35%) Infoblox
12 4 (6.35%) VMware
13 3 (4.76%) Arista
13 3 (4.76%) Blue Coat
13 3 (4.76%) Dell