SNA Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SNA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SNA over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 390 450
Rank change year-on-year +62 +60 -
Contract jobs citing SNA 6 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.019% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 £570 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £519 £662 £613
90th Percentile £538 £665 £635
UK median daily rate £513 £625 £635
% change year-on-year -18.00% -1.57% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SNA 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,977 3,409 3,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.48% 16.47% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,953 2,274
10th Percentile £194 £203 £210
25th Percentile £303 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 359 327
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.45 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% +110.53% -30.91%

SNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SNA in the UK excluding London

SNA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SNA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SNA in the UK excluding London

SNA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SNA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SNA in the UK excluding London

SNA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SNA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Scotland - 4 £513 -
East of England - 1 £550 -
North of England - 1 £513 -
Yorkshire - 1 £513 -
SNA
UK

SNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) z/OS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) zOS
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Network Management
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JCL
2 2 (33.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) vRealize
2 1 (16.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (16.67%) VMware