SNMP Contract Job Trends

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SNMP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 489 512
Rank change year-on-year -55 +23 +154
Contract jobs citing SNMP 49 45 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 1.11% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 7 54
10th Percentile £306 - £315
25th Percentile £402 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile £688 £438 £613
90th Percentile £699 £513 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £425 £420
% change year-on-year +35.29% +1.19% -13.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 20
10th Percentile £47.63 £34.10 £24.93
25th Percentile £51.78 £55.38 £47.95
Median hourly rate £60.63 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +0.81% +14.71%
75th Percentile £67.55 - £67.19
90th Percentile £70.54 £62.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.63 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% - +19.05%

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 4,135 4,062 6,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.35% 13.14% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,717 2,404 3,588
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £355 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -5.89%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 128 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.01 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £20.82
Median hourly rate £28.38 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% -31.58% +143.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.47 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.38 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £26.75 £51.89
% change year-on-year +51.55% -48.45% +160.23%

SNMP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SNMP job vacancy trend in the UK

SNMP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SNMP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SNMP over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SNMP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SNMP over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Top 11 Contract Job 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 15 February 2026. 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 -74 43 £525 +23.53% 19
UK excluding London -68 32 £575 +35.29% 15
North of England -54 18 £675 +58.82% 1
Yorkshire -57 12 £675 +58.82%
London -16 10 £475 - 5
Work from Home -18 10 £403 +0.69% 9
South East -31 10 £300 - 11
North West -29 6 £403 - 1
West Midlands -42 5 £300 -29.41% 1
Midlands -51 5 £300 -29.41% 1
South West - 3 £300 - 1

SNMP
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (26.53%) TPMS
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.12%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.33%) AWS
2 4 (8.16%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.08%) Azure
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) Akamai
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub
5 1 (2.04%) IaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.04%) PaaS
5 1 (2.04%) SaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (44.90%) SSH
2 18 (36.73%) SSL
3 12 (24.49%) Firewall
4 11 (22.45%) WAN
5 10 (20.41%) BGP
5 10 (20.41%) TACACS
6 9 (18.37%) TCP/IP
7 8 (16.33%) MPLS
7 8 (16.33%) OSPF
7 8 (16.33%) VPN
8 7 (14.29%) LAN
9 6 (12.24%) FTP
10 5 (10.20%) DHCP
10 5 (10.20%) DNS
10 5 (10.20%) SD-WAN
10 5 (10.20%) Wireshark
11 4 (8.16%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (8.16%) Spanning Tree
11 4 (8.16%) Wireless
12 3 (6.12%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 17 (34.69%) Documentation Skills
2 13 (26.53%) Finance
3 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
5 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Military
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Cryptography Engineer
1 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) Network Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) OSS Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) OSS Systems Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) Designer
4 3 (6.12%) IP Designer
4 3 (6.12%) Operations Support Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) OSS Support Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) Systems Support
4 3 (6.12%) Systems Support Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) IP Specialist
5 2 (4.08%) Server Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) NETCONF
1 2 (4.08%) OpenConfig
1 2 (4.08%) REST
1 2 (4.08%) RESTCONF
1 2 (4.08%) YANG
2 1 (2.04%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.04%) JSON
2 1 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.08%) PKI
5 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.04%) CMDB
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (44.90%) Windows
2 20 (40.82%) Linux
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.04%) Unix
4 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (30.61%) Observability
3 14 (28.57%) Cryptography
3 14 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (26.53%) Data Security
4 13 (26.53%) OWASP
4 13 (26.53%) Roadmaps
4 13 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (12.24%) Incident Response
5 6 (12.24%) Load Balancing
6 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
6 5 (10.20%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (10.20%) ITIL
6 5 (10.20%) Network Design
7 4 (8.16%) Migration
7 4 (8.16%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (8.16%) Server Building
8 3 (6.12%) Capacity Management
8 3 (6.12%) High Availability
8 3 (6.12%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.78%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) Bash
3 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.16%) SQL
4 3 (6.12%) Java
4 3 (6.12%) Perl
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.04%) PromQL
5 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) FFIEC
2 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.33%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 7 (14.29%) CCIE
5 6 (12.24%) JNCIE
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (6.12%) CCNP
7 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.04%) CCDA
8 1 (2.04%) CCDP
8 1 (2.04%) CCIP
8 1 (2.04%) CCNA
8 1 (2.04%) CISSP
8 1 (2.04%) Degree
8 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.04%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 13 (26.53%) GDPR
2 13 (26.53%) GLBA
2 13 (26.53%) NIST
3 2 (4.08%) NCSC
4 1 (2.04%) FIPS 140-2
4 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (16.33%) Docker
3 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.12%) VMware NSX
5 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.04%) Firmware
6 1 (2.04%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Ansible
2 6 (12.24%) Terraform
3 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.08%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (4.08%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.08%) Grafana
4 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) Backup Exec
5 1 (2.04%) Cacti
5 1 (2.04%) CASB
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.04%) collectd
5 1 (2.04%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Fluentd
5 1 (2.04%) MOM
5 1 (2.04%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (2.04%) SCOM
5 1 (2.04%) WSUS
5 1 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (42.86%) Cisco
2 15 (30.61%) Splunk
3 13 (26.53%) Thales
4 12 (24.49%) Juniper
5 10 (20.41%) Fortinet
5 10 (20.41%) VMware
6 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
7 7 (14.29%) F5
8 5 (10.20%) Meraki
9 3 (6.12%) AppDynamics
9 3 (6.12%) Arista
9 3 (6.12%) Dynatrace
10 2 (4.08%) Aruba
10 2 (4.08%) CheckPoint
10 2 (4.08%) Ciena
10 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
10 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
10 2 (4.08%) Starlink
10 2 (4.08%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.04%) Symantec