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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 488 496
Rank change year-on-year -68 +8 +120
Contract jobs citing SNMP 69 31 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.52% 0.84% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 10 64
10th Percentile £300 £400 £300
25th Percentile £341 £416 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £488 £515
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% -5.34% -14.17%
75th Percentile £688 £563 £613
90th Percentile £700 £631 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £575 £488
% change year-on-year -22.91% +17.95% -29.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 13
10th Percentile £47.63 £44.55 £29.10
25th Percentile £51.78 £52.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £60.63 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% -8.00% +74.83%
75th Percentile £67.55 £61.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.54 £62.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.63 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.44% -8.00% +74.83%

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 4,553 3,694 5,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.55% 12.71% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,819 2,276 3,232
10th Percentile £263 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £362 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -5.41%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 164 416
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £39.02 £31.79 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.74% -20.53% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £57.80 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £24.66 £45.88
% change year-on-year +71.33% -46.25% +151.88%

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 15 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SNMP over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SNMP in the UK

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 15 May 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 -86 59 £430 -18.10% 26
UK excluding London -61 48 £443 -22.91% 20
South West - 19 £314 - 5
Work from Home -26 14 £550 +37.50% 17
North of England - 13 £675 - 5
Yorkshire - 10 £675 - 1
London -66 9 £456 -8.75% 5
West Midlands -55 8 £375 -31.82% 2
South East -58 8 £300 - 7
Midlands -60 8 £375 -31.82% 2
East of England -30 4 £550 -8.33%
North West - 3 £350 - 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 8 (11.59%) TPMS
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.04%) AWS
1 9 (13.04%) Azure
2 5 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (7.25%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (4.35%) GCP
4 2 (2.90%) SaaS
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.45%) Datadog
5 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.45%) IaaS
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.45%) PaaS
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (23.19%) SSH
2 13 (18.84%) SSL
3 9 (13.04%) DHCP
3 9 (13.04%) DNS
3 9 (13.04%) WAN
4 8 (11.59%) Firewall
4 8 (11.59%) TACACS
5 7 (10.14%) BGP
5 7 (10.14%) TCP/IP
6 6 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
6 6 (8.70%) FTP
6 6 (8.70%) MPLS
7 5 (7.25%) SD-WAN
8 4 (5.80%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (5.80%) LAN
8 4 (5.80%) OSPF
8 4 (5.80%) Spanning Tree
8 4 (5.80%) VPN
8 4 (5.80%) Wireshark
9 3 (4.35%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) ClickHouse
1 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Git
2 4 (5.80%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Finance
3 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Military
6 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Consultant
2 14 (20.29%) Management Consultant
3 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Cryptography Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Network Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) OSS Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) OSS Systems Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Architect
7 3 (4.35%) IP Specialist
7 3 (4.35%) ITSM Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Operations Support Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) OSS Support Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Systems Support
7 3 (4.35%) Systems Support Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (33.33%) REST
2 9 (13.04%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (8.70%) eBPF
4 3 (4.35%) NETCONF
4 3 (4.35%) OpenConfig
4 3 (4.35%) Redfish
4 3 (4.35%) RESTCONF
4 3 (4.35%) YANG
5 1 (1.45%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.45%) JSON
5 1 (1.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.90%) CMDB
5 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 36 (52.17%) Windows
2 34 (49.28%) Linux
3 18 (26.09%) AIX
4 4 (5.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.45%) Unix
5 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.43%) Observability
2 20 (28.99%) Dashboard Development
3 15 (21.74%) Roadmaps
4 11 (15.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (14.49%) ITSM
6 9 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (11.59%) Change Management
7 8 (11.59%) Cryptography
7 8 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (11.59%) Data Security
7 8 (11.59%) OWASP
7 8 (11.59%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (11.59%) SIEM
7 8 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (10.14%) Anomaly Detection
8 7 (10.14%) DevOps
8 7 (10.14%) Network Management
8 7 (10.14%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (10.14%) Project Delivery
8 7 (10.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (56.52%) Python
2 19 (27.54%) PowerShell
2 19 (27.54%) SQL
3 17 (24.64%) Search Processing Language
4 14 (20.29%) Bash
5 2 (2.90%) ActionScript
5 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 34 (49.28%) Security Cleared
2 25 (36.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.59%) DV Cleared
3 8 (11.59%) FFIEC
4 6 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.25%) CCIE
6 4 (5.80%) JNCIE
7 3 (4.35%) CCNP
8 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.45%) CCDA
9 1 (1.45%) CCDP
9 1 (1.45%) CCIP
9 1 (1.45%) CCNA
9 1 (1.45%) Degree
9 1 (1.45%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.45%) OCP
9 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) GDPR
1 8 (11.59%) GLBA
1 8 (11.59%) NIST
1 8 (11.59%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.90%) NCSC
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.35%) Firmware
3 2 (2.90%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (27.54%) Ansible
1 19 (27.54%) Nagios
1 19 (27.54%) ZABBIX
2 18 (26.09%) Netcool
3 17 (24.64%) Tivoli
4 15 (21.74%) OpenView
4 15 (21.74%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 13 (18.84%) Terraform
6 11 (15.94%) Prometheus
7 9 (13.04%) Grafana
8 4 (5.80%) WMI
9 2 (2.90%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (2.90%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
10 1 (1.45%) CASB
10 1 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (1.45%) Fluentd
10 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.45%) Icinga
10 1 (1.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (56.52%) Splunk
2 25 (36.23%) SolarWinds
3 19 (27.54%) BMC
3 19 (27.54%) Cisco
4 16 (23.19%) HP
4 16 (23.19%) IBM
5 12 (17.39%) Fortinet
6 11 (15.94%) F5
7 9 (13.04%) ServiceNow
8 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
8 8 (11.59%) Thales
9 7 (10.14%) Dynatrace
9 7 (10.14%) Palo Alto
10 6 (8.70%) Cribl.io
11 5 (7.25%) Juniper
12 4 (5.80%) Infoblox
12 4 (5.80%) Meraki
13 3 (4.35%) CheckPoint
13 3 (4.35%) Dell
13 3 (4.35%) VMware