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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 525 505
Rank change year-on-year -75 -20 +39
Contract jobs citing SNMP 72 38 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.41% 0.99% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 16 36
10th Percentile £305 £281 £350
25th Percentile £363 £463 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £445
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +9.55% -11.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £515
90th Percentile £648 £713 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £638 £450
% change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 15
10th Percentile £30.32 £51.49 £56.78
25th Percentile £37.05 £52.14 -
Median hourly rate £51.50 £56.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -19.64% +27.27%
75th Percentile £56.56 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £57.65 - £72.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.50 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.44% -19.64% +16.67%

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 5,090 3,828 4,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 11.77% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,008 2,343 2,743
10th Percentile £235 £238 £230
25th Percentile £398 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £677 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +1.41% -6.13% +10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 200 288
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65.22 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.10 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.84 £42.50 £55.75
% change year-on-year -39.20% -23.76% -1.32%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -76 65 £525 +10.53% 31
UK excluding London -70 48 £525 -17.65% 20
Work from Home -50 20 £551 +69.54% 8
South West - 16 £426 - 4
London -75 14 £538 +13.16% 14
West Midlands -36 12 £573 +4.18% 2
Midlands -44 12 £573 +4.18% 3
North of England -69 9 £525 - 8
East of England - 7 £550 - 2
North West - 6 £525 - 8
South East -71 5 £325 - 4
Yorkshire -37 3 - - 1

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 (5.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.50%) AWS
1 9 (12.50%) Azure
2 6 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.78%) Datadog
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.39%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.39%) GCP
5 1 (1.39%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.83%) DNS
2 14 (19.44%) WAN
3 13 (18.06%) DHCP
4 12 (16.67%) Firewall
5 10 (13.89%) TCP/IP
6 9 (12.50%) BGP
7 8 (11.11%) SD-WAN
8 7 (9.72%) VPN
9 6 (8.33%) LAN
9 6 (8.33%) TACACS
10 5 (6.94%) MPLS
10 5 (6.94%) OSPF
10 5 (6.94%) VLAN
10 5 (6.94%) Wireless
11 4 (5.56%) EIGRP
11 4 (5.56%) ICMP
11 4 (5.56%) Network Security
11 4 (5.56%) SSL
11 4 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.39%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) GitLab
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.94%) Finance
5 2 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.39%) Police
6 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (33.33%) Consultant
2 13 (18.06%) Management Consultant
3 8 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Administrator
5 4 (5.56%) Network Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Network Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) Cloud Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) IP Network Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) ITSM Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Splunk Consultant
7 2 (2.78%) Monitoring Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Network Support
7 2 (2.78%) Network Support Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Splunk Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.39%) REST
2 13 (18.06%) Terraform
3 11 (15.28%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (9.72%) eBPF
5 5 (6.94%) NETCONF
5 5 (6.94%) YANG
6 4 (5.56%) OpenConfig
6 4 (5.56%) RESTCONF
7 3 (4.17%) Redfish
8 1 (1.39%) 802.1X
8 1 (1.39%) JSON
8 1 (1.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.72%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.94%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (5.56%) CMDB
4 4 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.56%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.39%) Life Science
6 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.39%) SCADA
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (40.28%) Linux
2 26 (36.11%) Windows
3 17 (23.61%) AIX
4 2 (2.78%) VMS
5 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) Observability
2 26 (36.11%) Dashboard Development
3 16 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 15 (20.83%) Change Management
5 13 (18.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 11 (15.28%) ITSM
7 11 (15.28%) Network Management
7 11 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (13.89%) Project Delivery
9 9 (12.50%) DevOps
9 9 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (12.50%) SIEM
10 8 (11.11%) AIOps
10 8 (11.11%) Anomaly Detection
10 8 (11.11%) Architectural Design
10 8 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 8 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 43 (59.72%) Python
2 21 (29.17%) SQL
3 19 (26.39%) Search Processing Language
4 18 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 12 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 26 (36.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.28%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.94%) CCIE
5 5 (6.94%) CCNA
6 4 (5.56%) JNCIE
7 3 (4.17%) CCNP
8 2 (2.78%) Degree
9 1 (1.39%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.39%) CISM
9 1 (1.39%) CISSP
9 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.39%) ECDL
9 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.39%) MCSE
9 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.56%) Firmware
2 4 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.78%) vSphere
4 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.39%) Docker
4 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.39%) NDS
4 1 (1.39%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 1 (1.39%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 23 (31.94%) ZABBIX
2 20 (27.78%) Nagios
3 19 (26.39%) Ansible
4 17 (23.61%) Netcool
5 16 (22.22%) Tivoli
6 14 (19.44%) OpenView
6 14 (19.44%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 12 (16.67%) Prometheus
8 10 (13.89%) Grafana
9 8 (11.11%) WMI
10 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
11 2 (2.78%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
12 1 (1.39%) Icinga
12 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (54.17%) Splunk
2 30 (41.67%) SolarWinds
3 20 (27.78%) Cisco
4 18 (25.00%) BMC
4 18 (25.00%) Fortinet
5 17 (23.61%) F5
6 16 (22.22%) IBM
7 14 (19.44%) HP
7 14 (19.44%) ServiceNow
8 11 (15.28%) Palo Alto
9 10 (13.89%) VMware
10 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
11 8 (11.11%) Dynatrace
12 7 (9.72%) Cribl.io
13 5 (6.94%) Juniper
14 4 (5.56%) CheckPoint
14 4 (5.56%) SevOne
15 3 (4.17%) Blue Coat
15 3 (4.17%) Dell
15 3 (4.17%) NetScout