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 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 489 510 621
Rank change year-on-year +21 +111 +101
Contract jobs citing SNMP 30 90 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.80% 1.59% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 64 77
10th Percentile - £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £388 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -14.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £506 £613 £700
90th Percentile £555 £638 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £488 £697
% change year-on-year +23.08% -30.01% +31.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 2
10th Percentile £47.81 £23.45 £21.78
25th Percentile £53.22 £52.50 £26.69
Median hourly rate £57.63 £62.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +73.43% +30.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £65.00 £45.19
90th Percentile £62.63 £69.00 £50.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.63 £62.25 £35.75
% change year-on-year -7.43% +74.13% +62.50%

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 3,739 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%

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 30 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SNMP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Top 8 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 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
England +2 24 £500 -2.91% 27
Work from Home +43 14 £400 -5.88% 15
UK excluding London +23 13 £600 +23.08% 22
South East +28 10 - - 13
London +2 9 £488 -18.75% 8
East of England +34 2 £600 -31.43% 2
Midlands +24 1 - - 2
West Midlands +16 1 - - 2

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 9 (30.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) assyst
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) Akamai
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (6.67%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) npm
4 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Datadog
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) DNS
2 11 (36.67%) Firewall
3 10 (33.33%) VPN
4 9 (30.00%) Network Security
4 9 (30.00%) Software-Defined Radio
5 8 (26.67%) BGP
5 8 (26.67%) OSPF
6 7 (23.33%) HTTP
6 7 (23.33%) IPsec
6 7 (23.33%) LAN
7 5 (16.67%) MPLS
7 5 (16.67%) SSL
7 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 5 (16.67%) WAN
8 4 (13.33%) DHCP
8 4 (13.33%) EIGRP
8 4 (13.33%) HSRP
9 3 (10.00%) Multicast
9 3 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Git
2 11 (36.67%) JIRA
3 9 (30.00%) GoogleTest
3 9 (30.00%) Robot Framework
4 8 (26.67%) Bitbucket
5 6 (20.00%) Eclipse
6 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
7 3 (10.00%) GitLab
8 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (3.33%) Subversion
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.67%) German Language
4 2 (6.67%) Military
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.33%) Aviation
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Software Test Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Test Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Fibre Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) HTML
2 9 (30.00%) CSS
3 4 (13.33%) XML
4 3 (10.00%) 802.1X
4 3 (10.00%) JSON
4 3 (10.00%) Node.js
5 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.67%) LDAP
5 2 (6.67%) NETCONF
5 2 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (6.67%) SAML
5 2 (6.67%) SOAP
6 1 (3.33%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Replication
2 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.67%) CMDB
3 2 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) FMCG
4 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Scrum
2 11 (36.67%) Validation
3 9 (30.00%) Software Testing
3 9 (30.00%) SysML
3 9 (30.00%) UML
3 9 (30.00%) Verification and Validation
4 7 (23.33%) Network Management
4 7 (23.33%) Prototyping
4 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
5 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
7 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
8 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
8 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) C++
2 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.67%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) Bash
4 4 (13.33%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) Perl
5 1 (3.33%) C-shell
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) Tcl
5 1 (3.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) CCNP
3 4 (13.33%) CCNA
4 2 (6.67%) CCDP
4 2 (6.67%) CCIE
4 2 (6.67%) CCIE Security
4 2 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) BC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.33%) CCIP
5 1 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
2 2 (6.67%) HIPAA
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Firmware
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (10.00%) iptables
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Ansible
2 5 (16.67%) Puppet
3 4 (13.33%) Nagios
4 3 (10.00%) Cacti
4 3 (10.00%) Grafana
4 3 (10.00%) Netcool
4 3 (10.00%) Proxmox
4 3 (10.00%) Terraform
4 3 (10.00%) ZABBIX
5 1 (3.33%) Graylog
5 1 (3.33%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.33%) logstash
5 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Cisco
2 9 (30.00%) Google
3 8 (26.67%) Atlassian
4 5 (16.67%) F5
4 5 (16.67%) Juniper
4 5 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 4 (13.33%) VMware
6 3 (10.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (10.00%) Nokia
6 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (10.00%) Splunk
7 2 (6.67%) Arista
7 2 (6.67%) Oracle
7 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (3.33%) HP
8 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.33%) Siemens
8 1 (3.33%) Sun