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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 474 502
Rank change year-on-year -67 +28 +162
Contract jobs citing SNMP 49 56 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.21% 1.37% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 13 58
10th Percentile £306 £371 £336
25th Percentile £402 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £415 £600
Median % change year-on-year +41.57% -30.83% +16.50%
75th Percentile £688 £438 £613
90th Percentile £699 £500 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £425 £485
% change year-on-year +47.06% -12.42% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 22
10th Percentile - £36.05 £25.70
25th Percentile £44.86 £54.81 £51.56
Median hourly rate £48.72 £61.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% -0.81% +14.71%
75th Percentile £52.58 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile - £62.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -22.05% - +19.05%

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 4,042 4,079 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.49% 12.99% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,668 2,374 3,713
10th Percentile £204 £213 £207
25th Percentile £356 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.42% -4.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £684 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 138 403
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £15.58
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -32.50% +141.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.13 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £31.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.44% -43.49% +179.54%

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 1 February 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 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 1 February 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 -57 45 £575 +35.29% 15
UK excluding London -60 32 £625 +47.06% 14
North of England -52 18 £675 +62.65% 2
London -30 12 £538 +53.57% 1
Yorkshire -47 12 £675 +62.65%
South East -17 11 £300 - 8
Work from Home -13 10 £403 +0.69% 5
North West -24 6 £403 - 2
West Midlands -41 5 £300 -40.00%
Midlands -54 5 £300 -40.00%
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 13 (26.53%) TPMS
2 5 (10.20%) OpenStack
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 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 9 (18.37%) AWS
2 6 (12.24%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
5 1 (2.04%) Akamai
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.04%) Azure
5 1 (2.04%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (44.90%) SSH
2 19 (38.78%) SSL
3 12 (24.49%) TACACS
3 12 (24.49%) WAN
4 10 (20.41%) BGP
4 10 (20.41%) Firewall
5 9 (18.37%) MPLS
5 9 (18.37%) TCP/IP
6 8 (16.33%) LAN
7 7 (14.29%) OSPF
7 7 (14.29%) VPN
8 6 (12.24%) FTP
9 5 (10.20%) DHCP
9 5 (10.20%) DNS
9 5 (10.20%) SD-WAN
9 5 (10.20%) Wireless
10 4 (8.16%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (8.16%) Spanning Tree
10 4 (8.16%) Wireshark
11 3 (6.12%) Ethernet
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 19 (38.78%) Documentation Skills
2 13 (26.53%) Finance
2 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.04%) Military
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Cryptography Engineer
2 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (22.45%) Network Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Designer
4 5 (10.20%) IP Designer
5 3 (6.12%) Operations Support Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) OSS Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) OSS Support Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) OSS Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Systems Support
5 3 (6.12%) Systems Support Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) IP Specialist
6 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Server Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
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 12 (24.49%) Data Centre
2 8 (16.33%) 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%) PKI
5 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (42.86%) Windows
2 18 (36.73%) Linux
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (30.61%) Cryptography
2 15 (30.61%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (30.61%) Observability
3 13 (26.53%) Data Security
3 13 (26.53%) OWASP
3 13 (26.53%) Roadmaps
3 13 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (16.33%) Incident Response
5 6 (12.24%) ITIL
5 6 (12.24%) Validation
6 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
6 5 (10.20%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (10.20%) Network Virtualisation
6 5 (10.20%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (8.16%) Network Design
7 4 (8.16%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.16%) Server Building
7 4 (8.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.78%) Python
2 8 (16.33%) Bash
3 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.16%) SQL
4 3 (6.12%) Java
4 3 (6.12%) Perl
5 1 (2.04%) PromQL
5 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) FFIEC
2 12 (24.49%) Security Cleared
3 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
4 8 (16.33%) AWS Certification
4 8 (16.33%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (14.29%) CCIE
5 7 (14.29%) JNCIE
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.08%) CEH
7 2 (4.08%) CISSP
8 1 (2.04%) CCNP
8 1 (2.04%) OCP
8 1 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.61%) PCI DSS
2 13 (26.53%) GDPR
2 13 (26.53%) GLBA
2 13 (26.53%) NIST
3 2 (4.08%) FIPS 140-2
4 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (16.33%) Docker
3 5 (10.20%) VMware NSX
4 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Ansible
2 7 (14.29%) Terraform
3 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.08%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.08%) Grafana
4 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
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%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Fluentd
5 1 (2.04%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (2.04%) SCOM
5 1 (2.04%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (2.04%) WSUS
5 1 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (44.90%) Cisco
2 15 (30.61%) Splunk
3 14 (28.57%) Thales
4 12 (24.49%) Juniper
5 11 (22.45%) Fortinet
5 11 (22.45%) VMware
6 9 (18.37%) F5
7 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
8 4 (8.16%) Meraki
9 3 (6.12%) AppDynamics
9 3 (6.12%) Dynatrace
10 2 (4.08%) Arista
10 2 (4.08%) Ciena
10 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
11 1 (2.04%) Acronis
11 1 (2.04%) Aruba
11 1 (2.04%) Infoblox
11 1 (2.04%) Mavenir
11 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds
11 1 (2.04%) Zscaler