SNMP Contract Job Trends in the North West

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring SNMP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 119 138
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 +44
Contract jobs citing SNMP 4 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.31% 1.94% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile £401 - £437
25th Percentile £401 £213 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £225 £450
Median % change year-on-year +79.00% -50.00% -
75th Percentile £406 £238 -
90th Percentile £408 - £460
England median daily rate £475 £425 £479
% change year-on-year +11.76% -11.27% -6.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 306 310 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.54% 12.93% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 154 343
10th Percentile £148 £245 £325
25th Percentile £343 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +0.51% +4.21%
75th Percentile £549 £579 £593
90th Percentile £687 £688 £660
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 10
10th Percentile - £24.61 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +191.13% -16.10%
75th Percentile £34.97 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £67.25 £52.02 £49.35
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.61% +1.35% +36.90%

SNMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SNMP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

SNMP job vacancy trend in the North West

SNMP
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SNMP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SNMP

SNMP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SNMP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SNMP

SNMP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SNMP within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Cumbria +13 4 £403 - 2
SNMP
England

SNMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (100.00%) Server Building
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) VMware