SNMP Contracts

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
UK

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 509 584
Rank change year-on-year -1 +75 +149
Contract jobs citing SNMP 29 81 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.75% 1.49% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 51 88
10th Percentile £263 £300 £329
25th Percentile £463 £350 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £700
90th Percentile £728 £688 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £488 £568
% change year-on-year +30.77% -14.10% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 4
10th Percentile £51.78 £41.63 -
25th Percentile £53.22 £68.13 £18.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +218.18% -44.49%
75th Percentile £59.78 - £32.56
90th Percentile £61.31 £71.88 £45.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +218.18% -56.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,890 5,433 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 12.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,342 3,208 4,616
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 428 433
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +115.91% -2.22%

SNMP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SNMP over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +9 24 £475 -4.19% 91
London +36 15 £475 -13.64% 65
UK excluding London -7 11 £638 +30.77% 37
South East +21 7 £325 -18.75% 14
Work from Home +18 7 £325 -31.58% 33
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -
Midlands +14 1 £550 - 7
West Midlands +8 1 £550 - 5
East of England - 1 - - 1

SNMP
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 6 (20.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) assyst
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Akamai
3 5 (17.24%) Azure
4 3 (10.34%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (6.90%) npm
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.45%) Datadog
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub
6 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (44.83%) Firewall
2 12 (41.38%) BGP
3 11 (37.93%) OSPF
4 9 (31.03%) Network Security
5 7 (24.14%) HTTP
5 7 (24.14%) Wireshark
6 6 (20.69%) DNS
6 6 (20.69%) EIGRP
6 6 (20.69%) Software-Defined Radio
7 5 (17.24%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (17.24%) SD-WAN
7 5 (17.24%) VPN
8 4 (13.79%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (13.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (13.79%) IPsec
8 4 (13.79%) SSH
8 4 (13.79%) Telnet
8 4 (13.79%) WAN
9 3 (10.34%) Multicast
9 3 (10.34%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Git
2 8 (27.59%) JIRA
3 6 (20.69%) GoogleTest
3 6 (20.69%) Robot Framework
4 5 (17.24%) Bitbucket
5 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
6 3 (10.34%) Eclipse
6 3 (10.34%) GitLab
7 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
1 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Local Government
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Network Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Software Test Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Test Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Security Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Juniper Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Fibre Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) HTML
2 6 (20.69%) CSS
3 4 (13.79%) XML
4 3 (10.34%) JSON
4 3 (10.34%) Node.js
5 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.90%) REST
5 2 (6.90%) SOAP
6 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
6 1 (3.45%) gRPC
6 1 (3.45%) NETCONF
6 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) CMDB
2 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (10.34%) Replication
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) FMCG
4 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.45%) Life Science
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Validation
2 8 (27.59%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) High Availability
3 6 (20.69%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (20.69%) Scrum
3 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
3 6 (20.69%) SysML
3 6 (20.69%) UML
3 6 (20.69%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (17.24%) Network Management
4 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
5 4 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
5 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) Migration
5 4 (13.79%) Observability
5 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (13.79%) Prototyping
5 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) C++
3 4 (13.79%) Java
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.79%) Perl
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.45%) Tcl
5 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) CCNP
4 1 (3.45%) CCDP
4 1 (3.45%) CCIE
4 1 (3.45%) CCNA
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.34%) SLA
2 2 (6.90%) NCSC
2 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.45%) GRC
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Firmware
2 3 (10.34%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (10.34%) iptables
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Ansible
2 4 (13.79%) FortiGate
2 4 (13.79%) Nagios
2 4 (13.79%) Puppet
2 4 (13.79%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Cacti
3 3 (10.34%) Grafana
3 3 (10.34%) Netcool
3 3 (10.34%) Proxmox
3 3 (10.34%) ZABBIX
4 1 (3.45%) Graylog
4 1 (3.45%) logstash
4 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Cisco
2 8 (27.59%) SolarWinds
3 7 (24.14%) F5
3 7 (24.14%) Juniper
4 6 (20.69%) Google
5 5 (17.24%) Atlassian
5 5 (17.24%) Fortinet
6 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
6 4 (13.79%) VMware
7 3 (10.34%) CheckPoint
7 3 (10.34%) Nokia
7 3 (10.34%) Splunk
8 2 (6.90%) Arista
8 2 (6.90%) Oracle
8 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
9 1 (3.45%) Mellanox
9 1 (3.45%) NVIDIA
9 1 (3.45%) Riverbed
9 1 (3.45%) SevOne
9 1 (3.45%) Zscaler