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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 483 525
Rank change year-on-year -51 +42 +183
Contract jobs citing SNMP 52 66 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.31% 1.49% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 51
10th Percentile £300 £360 £325
25th Percentile £405 £401 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £540
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -21.30% +5.37%
75th Percentile £688 £444 £597
90th Percentile £700 £465 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £425 £488
% change year-on-year -2.94% -12.82% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 15
10th Percentile - £41.33 £24.70
25th Percentile £44.86 £59.50 £35.02
Median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.05% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £52.58 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £66.25 £61.25
% change year-on-year -26.46% +8.16% +15.82%

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 3,978 4,418 6,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 12.28% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,586 2,547 3,845
10th Percentile £205 £220 £210
25th Percentile £355 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £584 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £686 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 167 345
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.06 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.75 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -25.45% +26.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -10.53% -15.91% +25.53%

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 4 December 2025.

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
Top 12 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 4 December 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 -33 44 £450 +9.42% 19
UK excluding London -62 26 £413 -2.94% 19
London +4 19 £475 +35.71% 1
Work from Home -1 12 £501 +23.04% 5
South East -7 12 £300 - 9
North of England -46 11 £675 +65.64% 2
Yorkshire -34 7 £688 +68.71%
North West -22 4 £403 +79.00% 2
Midlands -33 3 £300 -40.00% 4
West Midlands -33 3 £300 -40.00% 4
South West - 2 £300 - 1
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -

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 7 (13.46%) TPMS
2 6 (11.54%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) AWS
2 7 (13.46%) Akamai
3 6 (11.54%) OpenShift
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (1.92%) Azure
6 1 (1.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (34.62%) BGP
2 17 (32.69%) Firewall
3 15 (28.85%) OSPF
3 15 (28.85%) WAN
4 13 (25.00%) SSH
5 11 (21.15%) TACACS
6 10 (19.23%) Wireshark
7 9 (17.31%) SSL
8 8 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (15.38%) MPLS
8 8 (15.38%) SD-WAN
8 8 (15.38%) VPN
9 7 (13.46%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (13.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 7 (13.46%) LAN
9 7 (13.46%) Wireless
10 6 (11.54%) Network Security
10 6 (11.54%) TCP/IP
11 4 (7.69%) VLAN
12 3 (5.77%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (26.92%) Documentation Skills
1 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.85%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.85%) Local Government
5 1 (1.92%) Military
5 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (36.54%) Network Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) Cryptography Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Designer
4 6 (11.54%) IP Designer
5 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) OSS Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Juniper Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Operations Support Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) OSS Support Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) OSS Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Systems Support
7 3 (5.77%) Systems Support Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Network Designer
8 2 (3.85%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.85%) NETCONF
1 2 (3.85%) OpenConfig
1 2 (3.85%) RESTCONF
1 2 (3.85%) YANG
2 1 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (34.62%) Data Centre
2 9 (17.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (9.62%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.85%) CMDB
5 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (3.85%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Linux
1 12 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Unix
2 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (19.23%) Network Segmentation
2 9 (17.31%) Cryptography
2 9 (17.31%) High Availability
2 9 (17.31%) Incident Response
2 9 (17.31%) Validation
3 8 (15.38%) Observability
4 7 (13.46%) Data Security
4 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (13.46%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (13.46%) OWASP
4 7 (13.46%) Roadmaps
4 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (11.54%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (11.54%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (9.62%) Capacity Management
6 5 (9.62%) Containerisation
6 5 (9.62%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (9.62%) Fault Management
6 5 (9.62%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (40.38%) Python
2 8 (15.38%) Bash
3 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.69%) SQL
5 3 (5.77%) Java
5 3 (5.77%) Perl
6 1 (1.92%) PromQL
6 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.31%) AWS Certification
2 9 (17.31%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (15.38%) CCIE
3 8 (15.38%) JNCIE
4 7 (13.46%) FFIEC
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.85%) CEH
6 2 (3.85%) CISSP
7 1 (1.92%) CCNP
7 1 (1.92%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) PCI DSS
2 9 (17.31%) NIST
3 7 (13.46%) GDPR
3 7 (13.46%) GLBA
4 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.85%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (3.85%) NCSC
6 1 (1.92%) GRC
6 1 (1.92%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (15.38%) Docker
3 6 (11.54%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.77%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Ansible
2 7 (13.46%) FortiGate
2 7 (13.46%) Terraform
3 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.85%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (3.85%) SCCM
5 1 (1.92%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.92%) Cacti
5 1 (1.92%) collectd
5 1 (1.92%) Grafana
5 1 (1.92%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.92%) SCOM
5 1 (1.92%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.92%) WSUS
5 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) Cisco
2 19 (36.54%) Juniper
3 16 (30.77%) F5
3 16 (30.77%) Fortinet
4 11 (21.15%) VMware
5 10 (19.23%) Splunk
6 9 (17.31%) SolarWinds
7 8 (15.38%) Thales
8 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
9 4 (7.69%) Meraki
10 3 (5.77%) AppDynamics
10 3 (5.77%) Dynatrace
10 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
11 2 (3.85%) Ciena
11 2 (3.85%) ForeScout
12 1 (1.92%) Acronis
12 1 (1.92%) Aruba
12 1 (1.92%) Dell
12 1 (1.92%) EMC
12 1 (1.92%) Qualys