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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 526 504
Rank change year-on-year -63 -22 +56
Contract jobs citing SNMP 74 28 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.086% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.48% 0.70% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 14 43
10th Percentile £304 £269 £280
25th Percentile £344 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +11.43% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £515
90th Percentile £656 £723 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £638 £450
% change year-on-year -26.00% +41.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 14
10th Percentile - £51.49 £63.00
25th Percentile - £52.14 -
Median hourly rate £72.54 £56.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% -19.64% +268.42%
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - £72.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.54 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +28.96% -19.64% +268.42%

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 4,999 3,980 5,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.44% 12.16% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,010 2,434 3,023
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £607
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 194 360
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.14
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.44 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.76% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.70 £73.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £44.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -39.41% -12.00% -12.79%

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 25 July 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
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 25 July 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 -68 64 £487 +2.53% 12
UK excluding London -53 46 £472 -26.00% 12
Work from Home -50 21 £540 +27.06% 6
South West - 17 £371 - 1
London -64 15 £500 +5.26% 2
Midlands -42 12 £565 +2.73% 1
West Midlands -43 12 £565 +2.73% 1
East of England - 7 £550 - 3
South East -69 6 £425 +30.77% 4
North of England - 4 £313 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North West - 2 £313 - 2

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 4 (5.41%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (8.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.51%) AWS
1 10 (13.51%) Azure
2 6 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (5.41%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.05%) GCP
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.70%) Datadog
5 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.70%) SaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.35%) IaaS
6 1 (1.35%) IBM Watson
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.57%) Firewall
2 12 (16.22%) DNS
2 12 (16.22%) WAN
3 10 (13.51%) DHCP
3 10 (13.51%) TCP/IP
4 9 (12.16%) BGP
5 7 (9.46%) MPLS
6 6 (8.11%) LAN
6 6 (8.11%) TACACS
6 6 (8.11%) VPN
7 5 (6.76%) ICMP
7 5 (6.76%) SSH
7 5 (6.76%) SSL
8 4 (5.41%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (5.41%) HTTP
8 4 (5.41%) OSPF
8 4 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (4.05%) EIGRP
9 3 (4.05%) FTP
9 3 (4.05%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.35%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Git
2 3 (4.05%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.35%) GitLab
3 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.05%) Finance
5 2 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Police
6 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (33.78%) Consultant
2 14 (18.92%) Management Consultant
3 7 (9.46%) Architect
4 5 (6.76%) Network Architect
4 5 (6.76%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Administrator
5 4 (5.41%) Network Consultant
5 4 (5.41%) Senior
6 3 (4.05%) Cloud Consultant
6 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Consultant
6 3 (4.05%) IP Network Consultant
6 3 (4.05%) ITSM Consultant
6 3 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Splunk Consultant
7 2 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) IP Specialist
7 2 (2.70%) Server Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (29.73%) REST
2 11 (14.86%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (9.46%) eBPF
3 7 (9.46%) NETCONF
3 7 (9.46%) YANG
4 6 (8.11%) OpenConfig
4 6 (8.11%) RESTCONF
5 3 (4.05%) Redfish
6 2 (2.70%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.70%) JSON
7 1 (1.35%) RESTful
7 1 (1.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Cloud Native
1 8 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (8.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (8.11%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.41%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.05%) CMDB
6 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.35%) PKI
7 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (41.89%) Linux
1 31 (41.89%) Windows
2 18 (24.32%) AIX
3 3 (4.05%) VMS
3 3 (4.05%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (33.78%) Dashboard Development
2 24 (32.43%) Observability
3 13 (17.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 13 (17.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 12 (16.22%) ITSM
5 11 (14.86%) Change Management
5 11 (14.86%) Platform Engineering
5 11 (14.86%) Project Delivery
6 10 (13.51%) Network Management
6 10 (13.51%) SIEM
7 9 (12.16%) CI/CD
7 9 (12.16%) DevOps
7 9 (12.16%) Performance Optimisation
8 8 (10.81%) AIOps
8 8 (10.81%) Anomaly Detection
8 8 (10.81%) Architectural Design
8 8 (10.81%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (10.81%) Roadmaps
8 8 (10.81%) Use Case
9 7 (9.46%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.11%) Python
2 22 (29.73%) SQL
3 19 (25.68%) PowerShell
4 17 (22.97%) Search Processing Language
5 13 (17.57%) Bash
6 2 (2.70%) ActionScript
6 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (40.54%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.86%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (12.16%) DV Cleared
5 8 (10.81%) CCIE
6 7 (9.46%) JNCIE
7 4 (5.41%) CCNP
8 3 (4.05%) CCNA
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.35%) CCDA
9 1 (1.35%) CCDP
9 1 (1.35%) CCIP
9 1 (1.35%) CISM
9 1 (1.35%) CISSP
9 1 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.35%) Degree
9 1 (1.35%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.70%) NCSC
2 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.41%) Firmware
2 4 (5.41%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.70%) vSphere
4 1 (1.35%) Docker
4 1 (1.35%) KVM
4 1 (1.35%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 24 (32.43%) ZABBIX
2 23 (31.08%) Ansible
3 19 (25.68%) Nagios
4 18 (24.32%) Netcool
5 17 (22.97%) Tivoli
6 15 (20.27%) OpenView
6 15 (20.27%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 13 (17.57%) Terraform
8 12 (16.22%) Prometheus
9 10 (13.51%) Grafana
10 8 (10.81%) WMI
11 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
12 2 (2.70%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (1.35%) CASB
13 1 (1.35%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (1.35%) Icinga
13 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (1.35%) MOM
Vendors
1 38 (51.35%) Splunk
2 30 (40.54%) SolarWinds
3 21 (28.38%) Cisco
4 19 (25.68%) BMC
4 19 (25.68%) F5
4 19 (25.68%) Fortinet
5 17 (22.97%) IBM
6 16 (21.62%) HP
7 14 (18.92%) ServiceNow
8 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
8 13 (17.57%) Palo Alto
9 9 (12.16%) Juniper
10 8 (10.81%) Dynatrace
11 7 (9.46%) Cribl.io
11 7 (9.46%) VMware
12 5 (6.76%) CheckPoint
13 4 (5.41%) Infoblox
14 3 (4.05%) Blue Coat
14 3 (4.05%) Dell
15 2 (2.70%) Aruba