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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 494 534
Rank change year-on-year -26 +40 +176
Contract jobs citing SNMP 37 68 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.97% 1.48% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 69
10th Percentile £281 £350 £334
25th Percentile £450 £402 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £431 £488
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -11.54% -2.50%
75th Percentile £646 £501 £553
90th Percentile £713 £626 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £431 £470
% change year-on-year +47.83% -8.24% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 10
10th Percentile £53.25 £46.31 £23.90
25th Percentile £54.38 £67.50 £33.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% +13.26%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £66.25
90th Percentile - £71.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -17.86% +14.29% +20.64%

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 3,805 4,583 6,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 11.89% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,363 2,666 4,180
10th Percentile £225 £225 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £453
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.50% +0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 252 305
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £16.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £21.37 £23.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -9.72% +36.12%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.89% -0.26% +27.78%

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
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 19 September 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 10 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 19 September 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 -14 29 £513 +20.59% 20
London +10 17 £538 +53.57% 4
UK excluding London -23 14 £638 +47.83% 20
Work from Home +11 12 £463 +3.93% 11
South East +12 10 £325 -23.53% 10
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -
West Midlands -10 1 £550 +10.00% 3
Midlands -17 1 £550 +10.00% 3
Yorkshire -25 1 - -
North of England -40 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 6 (16.22%) OpenStack
2 4 (10.81%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) IIS
3 1 (2.70%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Akamai
2 7 (18.92%) OpenShift
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.41%) Azure
4 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 17 (45.95%) BGP
2 16 (43.24%) OSPF
3 13 (35.14%) Firewall
4 11 (29.73%) WAN
5 7 (18.92%) Cisco ISE
5 7 (18.92%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (18.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 7 (18.92%) MPLS
5 7 (18.92%) Network Security
5 7 (18.92%) TACACS
5 7 (18.92%) Wireless
5 7 (18.92%) Wireshark
6 6 (16.22%) LAN
6 6 (16.22%) SD-WAN
7 5 (13.51%) VLAN
8 4 (10.81%) DNS
8 4 (10.81%) HTTP
8 4 (10.81%) SSH
8 4 (10.81%) VPN
9 3 (8.11%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Git
1 6 (16.22%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.11%) GoogleTest
3 3 (8.11%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.41%) Local Government
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Network Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Designer
3 6 (16.22%) IP Designer
4 3 (8.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) Cryptography Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Juniper Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Software Test Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Network Designer
5 2 (5.41%) Network Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Professional Services Consultant
6 1 (2.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) CSS
1 3 (8.11%) HTML
1 3 (8.11%) Node.js
2 2 (5.41%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.70%) gRPC
3 1 (2.70%) NETCONF
3 1 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Data Centre
2 8 (21.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.11%) CMDB
3 3 (8.11%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.41%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Life Science
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Validation
2 10 (27.03%) Incident Response
2 10 (27.03%) Network Segmentation
3 9 (24.32%) High Availability
4 6 (16.22%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (13.51%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (13.51%) UML
6 4 (10.81%) Agile
6 4 (10.81%) DevOps
7 3 (8.11%) Cryptography
7 3 (8.11%) Migration
7 3 (8.11%) Observability
7 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.11%) Project Delivery
7 3 (8.11%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (8.11%) Runbook
7 3 (8.11%) Scrum
7 3 (8.11%) Software Testing
7 3 (8.11%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Perl
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) AWS Certification
2 8 (21.62%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (18.92%) CCIE
3 7 (18.92%) JNCIE
4 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (5.41%) CEH
6 2 (5.41%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) CCNA
7 1 (2.70%) FFIEC
7 1 (2.70%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) PCI DSS
2 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.11%) NIST
4 2 (5.41%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (5.41%) NCSC
5 1 (2.70%) GDPR
5 1 (2.70%) GLBA
5 1 (2.70%) GRC
5 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (16.22%) VMware NSX
3 5 (13.51%) Firmware
4 4 (10.81%) Docker
5 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Ansible
2 7 (18.92%) FortiGate
2 7 (18.92%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.41%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (5.41%) SCCM
5 1 (2.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Cisco
2 14 (37.84%) Fortinet
2 14 (37.84%) Juniper
3 13 (35.14%) F5
4 10 (27.03%) SolarWinds
5 7 (18.92%) VMware
6 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
7 4 (10.81%) Splunk
8 3 (8.11%) AppDynamics
8 3 (8.11%) Dynatrace
9 2 (5.41%) ForeScout
9 2 (5.41%) Meraki
9 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
9 2 (5.41%) Thales
10 1 (2.70%) Aruba
10 1 (2.70%) Dell
10 1 (2.70%) EMC
10 1 (2.70%) Google
10 1 (2.70%) Oracle
10 1 (2.70%) Remedy