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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 473 514
Rank change year-on-year -71 +41 +188
Contract jobs citing SNMP 49 63 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.24% 1.49% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 47
10th Percentile £300 £394 £347
25th Percentile £402 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -22.73% +7.06%
75th Percentile £688 £445 £600
90th Percentile £700 £500 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £425 £488
% change year-on-year -2.94% -12.82% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 17
10th Percentile - £32.15 £29.20
25th Percentile £44.86 £50.47 £51.25
Median hourly rate £48.72 £61.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% -0.81% +17.24%
75th Percentile £52.58 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £62.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -22.05% - +23.10%

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 3,954 4,240 5,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.72% 12.73% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,586 2,496 3,643
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £473 £473
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 136 326
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.78 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.13 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +61.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.03 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.63 £75.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +30.77% -43.48% +41.71%

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 29 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 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 29 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 -46 43 £425 +1.19% 57
UK excluding London -63 26 £413 -2.94% 52
London -3 16 £475 +35.71% 12
North of England -46 14 £625 +53.37% 10
South East -4 11 £300 - 15
Work from Home -13 11 £600 +47.24% 15
Yorkshire -46 8 £675 +65.64% 4
North West -18 6 £403 - 5
West Midlands -32 3 £300 -40.00% 11
Midlands -46 3 £300 -40.00% 12
South West - 2 £300 - 4

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 9 (18.37%) TPMS
2 6 (12.24%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.45%) AWS
2 6 (12.24%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.12%) Akamai
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.08%) Azure
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (32.65%) SSH
2 15 (30.61%) WAN
3 13 (26.53%) BGP
3 13 (26.53%) Firewall
3 13 (26.53%) TACACS
4 12 (24.49%) SSL
5 10 (20.41%) MPLS
5 10 (20.41%) OSPF
6 9 (18.37%) LAN
7 8 (16.33%) VPN
8 7 (14.29%) SD-WAN
8 7 (14.29%) TCP/IP
8 7 (14.29%) Wireless
9 6 (12.24%) Wireshark
10 5 (10.20%) VLAN
11 4 (8.16%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (8.16%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (8.16%) DHCP
11 4 (8.16%) DNS
11 4 (8.16%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (32.65%) Documentation Skills
2 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.41%) Finance
4 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.08%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.04%) Military
8 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Network Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) Cryptography Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Designer
4 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) IP Designer
6 3 (6.12%) Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Operations Support Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) OSS Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) OSS Support Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) OSS Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Systems Support
6 3 (6.12%) Systems Support Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) IP Specialist
7 2 (4.08%) Network Designer
7 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) 802.1X
1 2 (4.08%) NETCONF
1 2 (4.08%) OpenConfig
1 2 (4.08%) RESTCONF
1 2 (4.08%) YANG
2 1 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Data Centre
2 10 (20.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.08%) CMDB
4 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.08%) PKI
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.57%) Linux
1 14 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.49%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (22.45%) Cryptography
3 10 (20.41%) Incident Response
3 10 (20.41%) Observability
4 9 (18.37%) Data Security
4 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (18.37%) OWASP
4 9 (18.37%) Roadmaps
4 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (18.37%) Validation
5 7 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (12.24%) Network Virtualisation
6 6 (12.24%) Performance Monitoring
7 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
7 5 (10.20%) Dashboard Development
8 4 (8.16%) High Availability
8 4 (8.16%) Network Segmentation
8 4 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.16%) Server Building
8 4 (8.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.86%) Python
2 8 (16.33%) Bash
3 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.16%) SQL
5 3 (6.12%) Java
5 3 (6.12%) Perl
6 1 (2.04%) PromQL
6 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.37%) AWS Certification
3 9 (18.37%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (18.37%) FFIEC
4 8 (16.33%) CCIE
4 8 (16.33%) JNCIE
5 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.08%) CEH
6 2 (4.08%) CISSP
7 1 (2.04%) CCNP
7 1 (2.04%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.53%) PCI DSS
2 11 (22.45%) NIST
3 9 (18.37%) GDPR
3 9 (18.37%) GLBA
4 2 (4.08%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.04%) GRC
5 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
5 1 (2.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (16.33%) Docker
3 6 (12.24%) VMware NSX
4 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Ansible
2 8 (16.33%) Terraform
3 4 (8.16%) FortiGate
3 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.08%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (4.08%) SCCM
5 1 (2.04%) Backup Exec
5 1 (2.04%) Cacti
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.04%) collectd
5 1 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Grafana
5 1 (2.04%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) SCOM
5 1 (2.04%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (2.04%) WSUS
5 1 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (53.06%) Cisco
2 15 (30.61%) Juniper
3 14 (28.57%) Fortinet
4 12 (24.49%) F5
4 12 (24.49%) Splunk
5 11 (22.45%) VMware
6 10 (20.41%) Thales
7 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
8 4 (8.16%) Meraki
9 3 (6.12%) AppDynamics
9 3 (6.12%) Dynatrace
9 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
9 3 (6.12%) SolarWinds
10 2 (4.08%) Aruba
10 2 (4.08%) Ciena
10 2 (4.08%) ForeScout
11 1 (2.04%) Arista
11 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
11 1 (2.04%) Tenable
11 1 (2.04%) Zscaler