SNMP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SNMP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 319 356
Rank change year-on-year -41 +37 +95
Contract jobs citing SNMP 17 52 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.78% 2.07% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 32
10th Percentile £383 £334 £339
25th Percentile £403 £404 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £460
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -7.61% -21.70%
75th Percentile £688 £450 £517
90th Percentile £738 £520 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £425 £473
% change year-on-year +29.41% -10.05% -8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 11
10th Percentile - £58.56 £24.50
25th Percentile - £68.13 £38.13
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +13.45%
75th Percentile - - £68.13
90th Percentile - £71.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +21.74% +4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,182 2,508 3,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.47% 14.74% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 1,370 2,206
10th Percentile £192 £200 £206
25th Percentile £300 £332 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £468
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.60% +3.89%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £588
90th Percentile £649 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 141 274
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.30 £16.50
25th Percentile £17.60 £26.25 £23.25
Median hourly rate £41.45 £52.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -7.06% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.40
% change year-on-year -29.98% -13.90% +41.62%

SNMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SNMP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SNMP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SNMP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SNMP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SNMP

SNMP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SNMP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SNMP in the UK excluding London

SNMP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SNMP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SNMP

SNMP
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 SNMP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South East -5 7 £325 - 6
North of England -36 7 £409 +0.37% 3
North West -20 4 £403 +79.00% 2
Yorkshire -35 3 £675 +65.64% 1
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -
West Midlands -23 1 £550 +10.00% 3
Midlands -25 1 £550 +10.00% 3
SNMP
UK

SNMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (35.29%) OpenStack
2 3 (17.65%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
1 6 (35.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) BGP
1 8 (47.06%) OSPF
1 8 (47.06%) WAN
2 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 6 (35.29%) LAN
2 6 (35.29%) MPLS
2 6 (35.29%) TACACS
2 6 (35.29%) VPN
2 6 (35.29%) Wireless
3 3 (17.65%) SSH
3 3 (17.65%) SSL
3 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.76%) EIGRP
4 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
General
1 9 (52.94%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Local Government
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Designer
1 6 (35.29%) IP Designer
2 4 (23.53%) Network Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Cryptography Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) OSS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) NETCONF
1 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Data Centre
2 6 (35.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
1 6 (35.29%) Network Virtualisation
1 6 (35.29%) Validation
2 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
2 4 (23.53%) Dashboard Development
2 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
2 4 (23.53%) Observability
2 4 (23.53%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (23.53%) Server Building
3 3 (17.65%) Cryptography
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) Data Security
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) OWASP
3 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) User Experience
4 2 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (11.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) AWS Certification
1 6 (35.29%) CCIE
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (35.29%) JNCIE
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
1 3 (17.65%) GLBA
1 3 (17.65%) NIST
1 3 (17.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (35.29%) VMware NSX
3 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Cisco
1 10 (58.82%) Juniper
1 10 (58.82%) VMware
2 6 (35.29%) F5
2 6 (35.29%) Fortinet
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
4 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
4 2 (11.76%) Thales
5 1 (5.88%) Remedy
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow