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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 485 470
Rank change year-on-year -93 -15 +42
Contract jobs citing SNMP 59 30 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.37% 0.92% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 19
10th Percentile £333 £333 £323
25th Percentile £462 £463 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% +29.41% -12.82%
75th Percentile £582 £638 £500
90th Percentile £720 £684 £618
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -8.33% +41.18% -12.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 15
10th Percentile £34.80 £53.25 £57.78
25th Percentile £48.25 £54.38 -
Median hourly rate £58.25 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - £72.25
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.30% -17.86% +21.74%

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 4,296 3,270 3,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.27% 11.78% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,525 2,078 2,231
10th Percentile £250 £219 £243
25th Percentile £400 £361 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £598 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 172 167
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £15.87
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.81 £24.59
Median hourly rate £38.72 £35.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -38.97% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.53 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £41.48 £50.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% -17.05% -11.49%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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
London -92 17 £575 +6.98% 18
Midlands -30 12 £573 +4.18% 2
West Midlands -35 12 £573 +4.18%
North of England -66 8 £525 -22.22% 10
South West - 8 £695 - 2
East of England - 8 £550 - 1
North West - 7 £525 - 7
South East -61 5 £325 - 6
Yorkshire -37 1 - - 3
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 (6.78%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (6.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.86%) AWS
1 7 (11.86%) Azure
2 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (6.78%) OpenShift
3 2 (3.39%) Datadog
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.69%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.69%) GCP
4 1 (1.69%) IaaS
4 1 (1.69%) IBM Watson
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.69%) PaaS
4 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.81%) DNS
2 16 (27.12%) WAN
3 15 (25.42%) DHCP
4 14 (23.73%) Firewall
4 14 (23.73%) TCP/IP
5 9 (15.25%) BGP
5 9 (15.25%) SD-WAN
6 8 (13.56%) VPN
7 7 (11.86%) HTTP
7 7 (11.86%) SSL
8 6 (10.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 6 (10.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (10.17%) LAN
8 6 (10.17%) TACACS
8 6 (10.17%) Wireless
9 5 (8.47%) MPLS
9 5 (8.47%) Network Security
9 5 (8.47%) OSPF
9 5 (8.47%) VLAN
9 5 (8.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.69%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
General
1 27 (45.76%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.47%) Finance
5 2 (3.39%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Police
6 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Consultant
2 9 (15.25%) Network Engineer
3 4 (6.78%) Administrator
3 4 (6.78%) Architect
3 4 (6.78%) Management Consultant
3 4 (6.78%) Network Architect
3 4 (6.78%) Network Consultant
4 3 (5.08%) Developer
4 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Consultant
4 3 (5.08%) IP Network Consultant
4 3 (5.08%) Monitoring Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Lead
5 2 (3.39%) Network Support
5 2 (3.39%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Splunk Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Support Engineer
6 1 (1.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (1.69%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) REST
2 7 (11.86%) Terraform
3 6 (10.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (8.47%) eBPF
4 5 (8.47%) NETCONF
4 5 (8.47%) YANG
5 4 (6.78%) OpenConfig
5 4 (6.78%) RESTCONF
6 1 (1.69%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.69%) JSON
6 1 (1.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
1 6 (10.17%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.47%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (6.78%) CMDB
3 4 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.78%) Private Cloud
3 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Life Science
4 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.69%) SCADA
4 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.69%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.81%) Linux
2 15 (25.42%) Windows
3 5 (8.47%) AIX
4 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.69%) Unix
4 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Observability
2 14 (23.73%) Change Management
2 14 (23.73%) Dashboard Development
3 13 (22.03%) Root Cause Analysis
4 12 (20.34%) Network Management
5 10 (16.95%) CI/CD
5 10 (16.95%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (16.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (15.25%) Runbook
7 8 (13.56%) ITSM
7 8 (13.56%) Network Monitoring
7 8 (13.56%) SIEM
8 7 (11.86%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (11.86%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (11.86%) Data Ingestion
8 7 (11.86%) DevOps
8 7 (11.86%) Incident Response
8 7 (11.86%) ITIL
8 7 (11.86%) Performance Analysis
8 7 (11.86%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) Python
2 11 (18.64%) SQL
3 10 (16.95%) Search Processing Language
4 6 (10.17%) Bash
4 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.69%) C
5 1 (1.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.64%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) CCIE
4 5 (8.47%) CCNA
5 4 (6.78%) JNCIE
6 3 (5.08%) CCNP
6 3 (5.08%) Degree
7 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.69%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.69%) CISM
8 1 (1.69%) CISSP
8 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.69%) ECDL
8 1 (1.69%) ECSA
8 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.69%) OSCP
8 1 (1.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.08%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.39%) vSphere
4 1 (1.69%) Docker
4 1 (1.69%) Firmware
4 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.69%) NDS
4 1 (1.69%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 1 (1.69%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 13 (22.03%) Ansible
2 11 (18.64%) ZABBIX
3 8 (13.56%) Nagios
3 8 (13.56%) WMI
4 7 (11.86%) Grafana
5 6 (10.17%) Prometheus
6 5 (8.47%) Netcool
6 5 (8.47%) Tivoli
7 3 (5.08%) OpenView
7 3 (5.08%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
8 2 (3.39%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (1.69%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.69%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (44.07%) Splunk
2 21 (35.59%) Cisco
3 19 (32.20%) F5
3 19 (32.20%) SolarWinds
4 18 (30.51%) Fortinet
5 12 (20.34%) Palo Alto
5 12 (20.34%) VMware
6 10 (16.95%) ServiceNow
7 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
8 6 (10.17%) BMC
9 5 (8.47%) Cribl.io
9 5 (8.47%) Dynatrace
9 5 (8.47%) IBM
9 5 (8.47%) Juniper
9 5 (8.47%) SevOne
10 4 (6.78%) CheckPoint
10 4 (6.78%) NetScout
11 3 (5.08%) Blue Coat
11 3 (5.08%) HP
12 2 (3.39%) Infoblox