SNA Contract Job Trends

IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SNA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 544 599
Rank change year-on-year -27 +55 +203
Contract jobs citing SNA 3 5 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.014% 0.049%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.074% 0.11% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 16
10th Percentile - £511 £566
25th Percentile - £513 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +4.00% -3.10%
75th Percentile £400 £675 £657
90th Percentile £430 - £668
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £615
% change year-on-year - - -4.65%

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 4,030 4,459 6,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.22% 12.14% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,605 2,577 4,072
10th Percentile £206 £225 £213
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 172 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.40 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.59 £22.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% -24.71% +29.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £48.03 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.51% -14.98% +25.53%

SNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SNA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SNA job vacancy trend in the UK

SNA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SNA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SNA

SNA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SNA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SNA

SNA
Top 3 Contract Job 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 22 November 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 +5 2 £350 -33.01% 2
England -24 2 £350 -33.33% 3
Work from Home 0 1 £450 -30.77% 1

SNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) APPN
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM