SNA Contracts

IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 582 697
Rank change year-on-year +71 +115 +154
Contract jobs citing SNA 8 18 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.041% 0.027%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 9
10th Percentile - £570 -
25th Percentile £506 £606 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £635
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -1.57% -
75th Percentile £613 £657 £650
90th Percentile £675 £668 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% +2.50% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

SNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SNA in the UK

SNA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SNA in the UK

SNA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SNA over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SNA in the UK

SNA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SNA in the UK

SNA
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London +56 6 £513 -16.67%
Work from Home +45 4 £581 -6.06% 2
Scotland - 4 £513 -
England +48 2 £531 -15.00% 1
East of England - 1 £550 -
Yorkshire - 1 £513 -
North of England - 1 £513 -

SNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Confluence
2 2 (25.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe Specialist
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) z/OS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Mainframe
2 2 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) zOS
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) Network Management
2 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) JCL
2 2 (25.00%) COBOL
2 2 (25.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) vRealize
2 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) LogRhythm
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) VMware