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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 477 469
Rank change year-on-year -72 -8 +46
Contract jobs citing SNMP 67 31 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.54% 0.92% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 13 30
10th Percentile £304 £343 £311
25th Percentile £325 £463 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.83% -12.86%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £515
90th Percentile £688 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 15
10th Percentile £30.32 £51.49 £56.78
25th Percentile £37.05 £52.14 -
Median hourly rate £51.50 £56.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -19.64% +21.74%
75th Percentile £56.56 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £57.65 - £72.25
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.44% -19.64% +27.27%

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 4,343 3,378 4,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.17% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,617 2,100 2,422
10th Percentile £263 £242 £250
25th Percentile £400 £364 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £681 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 169 259
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.11 £42.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% -24.77% -
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.68 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.62%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 30 August 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 £426 - 3
London -82 14 £500 +5.26% 7
West Midlands -32 12 £573 +4.18% 1
Midlands -38 12 £573 +4.18% 1
North of England -64 9 £525 - 8
East of England - 7 £550 - 1
South East -65 6 £325 - 2
North West - 6 £525 - 8
Yorkshire -44 3 - - 1
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 (5.97%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (7.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.45%) AWS
1 7 (10.45%) Azure
2 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
3 2 (2.99%) Datadog
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.49%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.49%) GCP
4 1 (1.49%) IBM Watson
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.39%) WAN
2 14 (20.90%) DNS
3 12 (17.91%) DHCP
4 11 (16.42%) Firewall
5 10 (14.93%) BGP
5 10 (14.93%) TCP/IP
6 8 (11.94%) SD-WAN
7 7 (10.45%) TACACS
7 7 (10.45%) VPN
8 6 (8.96%) LAN
8 6 (8.96%) MPLS
9 5 (7.46%) OSPF
9 5 (7.46%) VLAN
9 5 (7.46%) Wireless
10 4 (5.97%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (5.97%) EIGRP
10 4 (5.97%) Network Security
10 4 (5.97%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (4.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (4.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.97%) Finance
5 2 (2.99%) Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Police
6 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Consultant
2 12 (17.91%) Management Consultant
3 9 (13.43%) Network Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) Administrator
4 4 (5.97%) Architect
4 4 (5.97%) Network Architect
4 4 (5.97%) Network Consultant
5 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Consultant
5 3 (4.48%) IP Network Consultant
5 3 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Monitoring Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Network Support
6 2 (2.99%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Senior
6 2 (2.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Splunk Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Support Engineer
7 1 (1.49%) Configuration Manager
7 1 (1.49%) Lead
7 1 (1.49%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) REST
2 10 (14.93%) Terraform
3 9 (13.43%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (8.96%) NETCONF
4 6 (8.96%) YANG
5 5 (7.46%) eBPF
5 5 (7.46%) OpenConfig
5 5 (7.46%) RESTCONF
6 3 (4.48%) Redfish
7 1 (1.49%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.49%) JSON
7 1 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.97%) CMDB
4 4 (5.97%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.97%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.49%) Life Science
5 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.49%) SCADA
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.81%) Linux
2 24 (35.82%) Windows
3 16 (23.88%) AIX
4 1 (1.49%) Unix
4 1 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) Dashboard Development
1 24 (35.82%) Observability
2 12 (17.91%) Change Management
2 12 (17.91%) Root Cause Analysis
3 10 (14.93%) Network Management
3 10 (14.93%) Project Delivery
3 10 (14.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (13.43%) CI/CD
4 9 (13.43%) ITSM
4 9 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (10.45%) Architectural Design
5 7 (10.45%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (10.45%) DevOps
5 7 (10.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (10.45%) Performance Analysis
5 7 (10.45%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (10.45%) SIEM
6 6 (8.96%) AIOps
6 6 (8.96%) Anomaly Detection
6 6 (8.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 40 (59.70%) Python
2 21 (31.34%) SQL
3 20 (29.85%) Search Processing Language
4 17 (25.37%) PowerShell
5 9 (13.43%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 27 (40.30%) Security Cleared
2 21 (31.34%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.91%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (11.94%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.96%) CCIE
6 5 (7.46%) CCNA
6 5 (7.46%) JNCIE
7 3 (4.48%) CCNP
8 2 (2.99%) Degree
9 1 (1.49%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.49%) CISM
9 1 (1.49%) CISSP
9 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.49%) ECDL
9 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.49%) MCSE
9 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.97%) Firmware
3 3 (4.48%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.99%) vSphere
5 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.49%) Docker
5 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.49%) NDS
5 1 (1.49%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 1 (1.49%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (32.84%) ZABBIX
2 19 (28.36%) Nagios
3 18 (26.87%) Ansible
4 16 (23.88%) Netcool
5 15 (22.39%) Tivoli
6 13 (19.40%) OpenView
6 13 (19.40%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 9 (13.43%) Prometheus
8 7 (10.45%) Grafana
8 7 (10.45%) WMI
9 2 (2.99%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
10 1 (1.49%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (52.24%) Splunk
2 28 (41.79%) SolarWinds
3 21 (31.34%) Cisco
4 18 (26.87%) F5
4 18 (26.87%) Fortinet
5 17 (25.37%) BMC
6 15 (22.39%) IBM
7 13 (19.40%) HP
7 13 (19.40%) ServiceNow
8 11 (16.42%) Palo Alto
9 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
10 9 (13.43%) VMware
11 6 (8.96%) Juniper
12 5 (7.46%) Cribl.io
12 5 (7.46%) Dynatrace
13 4 (5.97%) CheckPoint
13 4 (5.97%) SevOne
14 3 (4.48%) Blue Coat
14 3 (4.48%) Dell
14 3 (4.48%) NetScout