SNMP Contracts in England

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SNMP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SNMP over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 482 546
Rank change year-on-year +10 +64 +147
Contract jobs citing SNMP 26 70 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.098% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.77% 1.45% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 43 83
10th Percentile £306 £280 £328
25th Percentile £463 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £519 £575 £700
90th Percentile £586 £638 -
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 4
10th Percentile £51.78 £41.63 -
25th Percentile £53.22 £68.13 £18.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +218.18% -58.40%
75th Percentile £59.78 - £32.56
90th Percentile £61.31 £71.88 £45.28
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +218.18% -44.49%

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 3,368 4,819 6,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 12.95% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,079 2,868 3,973
10th Percentile £235 £214 £232
25th Percentile £363 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 390 368
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% +101.96% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.10 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -22.41%

SNMP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SNMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SNMP in England

SNMP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SNMP in England.

Daily rate trend for SNMP in England

SNMP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SNMP in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SNMP in England

SNMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SNMP in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 July 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 +30 17 £475 +35.71% 39
South East +21 7 £325 -18.75% 9
Midlands +14 1 £550 - 4
West Midlands +8 1 £550 - 4
East of England - 1 - -
SNMP
UK

SNMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) assyst
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Akamai
3 5 (19.23%) Azure
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (7.69%) npm
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.85%) Datadog
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (50.00%) Firewall
2 11 (42.31%) BGP
3 10 (38.46%) OSPF
4 9 (34.62%) Wireshark
5 7 (26.92%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (26.92%) Network Security
6 6 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (23.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 6 (23.08%) HTTP
6 6 (23.08%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (15.38%) DNS
7 4 (15.38%) IPsec
7 4 (15.38%) SSH
7 4 (15.38%) Telnet
8 3 (11.54%) EIGRP
8 3 (11.54%) Multicast
8 3 (11.54%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (11.54%) VPN
9 2 (7.69%) HSRP
9 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Git
2 7 (26.92%) JIRA
3 6 (23.08%) GoogleTest
3 6 (23.08%) Robot Framework
4 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
5 3 (11.54%) Eclipse
5 3 (11.54%) GitLab
5 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
1 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Network Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Software Test Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Test Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Security Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Designer
4 2 (7.69%) Juniper Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Network Designer
4 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) OSS Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) HTML
2 6 (23.08%) CSS
3 4 (15.38%) XML
4 3 (11.54%) JSON
4 3 (11.54%) Node.js
5 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (7.69%) REST
5 2 (7.69%) SOAP
6 1 (3.85%) 802.1X
6 1 (3.85%) gRPC
6 1 (3.85%) NETCONF
6 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (11.54%) Replication
3 2 (7.69%) CMDB
3 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) FMCG
4 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
4 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Validation
2 7 (26.92%) Agile
3 6 (23.08%) High Availability
3 6 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (23.08%) Scrum
3 6 (23.08%) Software Testing
3 6 (23.08%) SysML
3 6 (23.08%) UML
3 6 (23.08%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
5 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Network Management
5 4 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (15.38%) Observability
5 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (15.38%) Prototyping
5 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Low Latency
6 3 (11.54%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) C++
2 4 (15.38%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) Perl
4 2 (7.69%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (3.85%) CCDP
3 1 (3.85%) CCIE
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) SLA
2 2 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.85%) GRC
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Firmware
2 3 (11.54%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (11.54%) iptables
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Ansible
2 6 (23.08%) FortiGate
3 4 (15.38%) Puppet
3 4 (15.38%) Terraform
4 3 (11.54%) Cacti
4 3 (11.54%) Grafana
4 3 (11.54%) Nagios
4 3 (11.54%) Netcool
4 3 (11.54%) Proxmox
4 3 (11.54%) ZABBIX
5 1 (3.85%) Graylog
5 1 (3.85%) logstash
5 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Cisco
2 9 (34.62%) F5
2 9 (34.62%) Juniper
3 7 (26.92%) Fortinet
3 7 (26.92%) SolarWinds
4 6 (23.08%) Google
5 5 (19.23%) Atlassian
6 3 (11.54%) CheckPoint
6 3 (11.54%) Nokia
6 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
6 3 (11.54%) Splunk
6 3 (11.54%) VMware
7 2 (7.69%) Arista
7 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.85%) Mellanox
8 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.85%) NVIDIA
8 1 (3.85%) Remedy
8 1 (3.85%) Tenable
8 1 (3.85%) Zscaler