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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 450 472
Rank change year-on-year -49 +22 +160
Contract jobs citing SNMP 42 44 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.25% 1.26% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 46
10th Percentile £300 £368 £341
25th Percentile £404 £402 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £581
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.74% +16.25%
75th Percentile £688 £453 £613
90th Percentile £694 £500 £638
UK median daily rate £600 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +41.18% -26.09% +11.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 19
10th Percentile - £40.18 £30.60
25th Percentile £44.86 £57.06 £53.75
Median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.05% +0.81% +56.43%
75th Percentile £52.58 - £68.13
90th Percentile - £63.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £61.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -20.78% -0.81% +22.12%

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 3,366 3,500 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.64% 12.80% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,178 2,045 3,127
10th Percentile £205 £220 £207
25th Percentile £358 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 103 312
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +120.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.25 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +125.96%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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
North of England -47 16 £675 +65.64% 3
London -14 13 £538 +53.57% 6
South East -19 11 £300 - 5
Yorkshire -49 10 £675 +65.64% 1
North West -23 6 £403 - 2
West Midlands -40 3 £300 -40.00% 1
Midlands -44 3 £300 -40.00% 1
South West - 2 £300 -
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 9 (21.43%) TPMS
2 6 (14.29%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) AWS
2 6 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (2.38%) Akamai
5 1 (2.38%) Azure
5 1 (2.38%) GCP
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (35.71%) SSH
2 14 (33.33%) WAN
3 13 (30.95%) TACACS
4 12 (28.57%) SSL
5 11 (26.19%) BGP
6 10 (23.81%) MPLS
7 9 (21.43%) Firewall
7 9 (21.43%) LAN
8 8 (19.05%) OSPF
9 7 (16.67%) VPN
10 6 (14.29%) SD-WAN
10 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
10 6 (14.29%) Wireless
11 4 (9.52%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (9.52%) Spanning Tree
11 4 (9.52%) Wireshark
12 3 (7.14%) Ethernet
12 3 (7.14%) FTP
13 2 (4.76%) DNS
13 2 (4.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Git
1 2 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (38.10%) Documentation Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (21.43%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.76%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.38%) Military
7 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Cryptography Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Designer
4 6 (14.29%) IP Designer
5 3 (7.14%) Operations Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) OSS Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) OSS Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) OSS Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Support
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) IP Specialist
6 2 (4.76%) Network Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) NETCONF
1 2 (4.76%) OpenConfig
1 2 (4.76%) RESTCONF
1 2 (4.76%) YANG
2 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Data Centre
2 9 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 4 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.76%) PKI
5 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (33.33%) Windows
2 13 (30.95%) Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Cryptography
1 11 (26.19%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (21.43%) Data Security
2 9 (21.43%) Incident Response
2 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (21.43%) Observability
2 9 (21.43%) OWASP
2 9 (21.43%) Roadmaps
2 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (19.05%) Validation
4 6 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (11.90%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (9.52%) Containerisation
6 4 (9.52%) ITIL
6 4 (9.52%) Load Balancing
6 4 (9.52%) Network Design
6 4 (9.52%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.52%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Python
2 7 (16.67%) Bash
3 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.52%) SQL
4 3 (7.14%) Java
4 3 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) AWS Certification
3 9 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (21.43%) FFIEC
4 8 (19.05%) CCIE
4 8 (19.05%) JNCIE
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.76%) CEH
6 2 (4.76%) CISSP
7 1 (2.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) PCI DSS
2 9 (21.43%) GDPR
2 9 (21.43%) GLBA
2 9 (21.43%) NIST
3 2 (4.76%) FIPS 140-2
4 1 (2.38%) JSP 440
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (16.67%) Docker
3 6 (14.29%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Ansible
2 8 (19.05%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.76%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.38%) Backup Exec
5 1 (2.38%) Cacti
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.38%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.38%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (2.38%) SCOM
5 1 (2.38%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (2.38%) WSUS
5 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) Cisco
2 13 (30.95%) Juniper
3 11 (26.19%) Fortinet
3 11 (26.19%) Splunk
3 11 (26.19%) VMware
4 10 (23.81%) F5
4 10 (23.81%) Thales
5 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
6 4 (9.52%) Meraki
7 3 (7.14%) AppDynamics
7 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
8 2 (4.76%) Ciena
8 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.38%) Acronis
9 1 (2.38%) Arista
9 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.38%) McAfee
9 1 (2.38%) Nokia
9 1 (2.38%) Symantec
9 1 (2.38%) Zscaler