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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 520 494
Rank change year-on-year -95 -26 +38
Contract jobs citing SNMP 71 37 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.40% 0.97% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 16 28
10th Percentile £325 £281 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £431
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +33.33% -11.54%
75th Percentile £581 £646 £501
90th Percentile £712 £713 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £638 £431
% change year-on-year -13.73% +47.83% -8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 16
10th Percentile £34.80 £53.25 £46.31
25th Percentile £48.25 £54.38 £67.50
Median hourly rate £58.25 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -17.86% +21.74%
75th Percentile £63.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.43% -17.86% +14.29%

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 5,079 3,805 4,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 11.55% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,940 2,363 2,666
10th Percentile £231 £225 £225
25th Percentile £392 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 199 252
10th Percentile £14.30 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -16.67% -9.72%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -30.59% -25.89% -0.26%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -68 65 £550 +7.32% 46
UK excluding London -79 45 £550 -13.73% 28
Work from Home -55 20 £552 +19.35% 12
London -73 18 £538 - 22
West Midlands -33 12 £573 +4.18% 1
Midlands -35 12 £573 +4.18% 3
South West - 12 £525 - 4
North of England -56 9 £525 - 9
East of England - 8 £550 - 1
North West - 7 £525 - 7
South East -67 5 £325 - 9
Yorkshire -36 2 - - 2

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 (5.63%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (5.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.68%) AWS
1 9 (12.68%) Azure
2 6 (8.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (8.45%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (5.63%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.82%) Datadog
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.41%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.41%) GCP
5 1 (1.41%) IaaS
5 1 (1.41%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.41%) PaaS
5 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (25.35%) DNS
2 16 (22.54%) DHCP
2 16 (22.54%) WAN
3 15 (21.13%) Firewall
4 14 (19.72%) TCP/IP
5 9 (12.68%) BGP
5 9 (12.68%) SD-WAN
6 8 (11.27%) VPN
7 7 (9.86%) HTTP
7 7 (9.86%) SSL
8 6 (8.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 6 (8.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (8.45%) LAN
8 6 (8.45%) TACACS
8 6 (8.45%) Wireless
9 5 (7.04%) MPLS
9 5 (7.04%) Network Security
9 5 (7.04%) OSPF
9 5 (7.04%) VLAN
9 5 (7.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.41%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Git
2 2 (2.82%) JIRA
General
1 30 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.86%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.04%) Finance
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Police
6 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Consultant
2 10 (14.08%) Management Consultant
3 9 (12.68%) Network Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) Administrator
4 4 (5.63%) Architect
4 4 (5.63%) Network Architect
4 4 (5.63%) Network Consultant
5 3 (4.23%) Cloud Consultant
5 3 (4.23%) Developer
5 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Consultant
5 3 (4.23%) IP Network Consultant
5 3 (4.23%) ITSM Consultant
5 3 (4.23%) Monitoring Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Splunk Consultant
6 2 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Lead
6 2 (2.82%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Splunk Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.72%) REST
2 10 (14.08%) Terraform
3 9 (12.68%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (9.86%) eBPF
5 5 (7.04%) NETCONF
5 5 (7.04%) YANG
6 4 (5.63%) OpenConfig
6 4 (5.63%) RESTCONF
7 1 (1.41%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.41%) JSON
7 1 (1.41%) Redfish
7 1 (1.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.86%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.04%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (5.63%) CMDB
4 4 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.63%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.41%) Life Science
5 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.41%) SCADA
5 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.41%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (33.80%) Linux
2 22 (30.99%) Windows
3 11 (15.49%) AIX
4 2 (2.82%) VMS
5 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.03%) Observability
2 21 (29.58%) Dashboard Development
3 16 (22.54%) Change Management
3 16 (22.54%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (18.31%) Network Management
5 12 (16.90%) CI/CD
5 12 (16.90%) ITSM
5 12 (16.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (14.08%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (14.08%) Runbook
6 10 (14.08%) SIEM
7 9 (12.68%) DevOps
7 9 (12.68%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (12.68%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (12.68%) Project Delivery
8 8 (11.27%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (11.27%) AIOps
8 8 (11.27%) Anomaly Detection
8 8 (11.27%) Architectural Design
8 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) Python
2 16 (22.54%) SQL
3 14 (19.72%) Search Processing Language
4 12 (16.90%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.68%) Bash
6 1 (1.41%) C
6 1 (1.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (39.44%) Security Cleared
2 21 (29.58%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.49%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.04%) CCIE
5 5 (7.04%) CCNA
6 4 (5.63%) JNCIE
7 3 (4.23%) CCNP
7 3 (4.23%) Degree
8 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.41%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.41%) CISM
9 1 (1.41%) CISSP
9 1 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.41%) ECDL
9 1 (1.41%) ECSA
9 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.41%) OSCP
9 1 (1.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.63%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.82%) Firmware
3 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.82%) vSphere
4 1 (1.41%) Docker
4 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.41%) NDS
4 1 (1.41%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 1 (1.41%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 17 (23.94%) ZABBIX
2 16 (22.54%) Ansible
3 14 (19.72%) Nagios
4 11 (15.49%) Netcool
4 11 (15.49%) Tivoli
5 9 (12.68%) Grafana
5 9 (12.68%) OpenView
5 9 (12.68%) Prometheus
5 9 (12.68%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 9 (12.68%) WMI
6 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.82%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.41%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (49.30%) Splunk
2 26 (36.62%) SolarWinds
3 22 (30.99%) Cisco
4 20 (28.17%) F5
5 19 (26.76%) Fortinet
6 13 (18.31%) Palo Alto
6 13 (18.31%) VMware
7 12 (16.90%) BMC
7 12 (16.90%) ServiceNow
8 11 (15.49%) IBM
9 9 (12.68%) HP
9 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
10 7 (9.86%) Cribl.io
10 7 (9.86%) Dynatrace
11 5 (7.04%) Juniper
11 5 (7.04%) SevOne
12 4 (5.63%) CheckPoint
12 4 (5.63%) NetScout
13 3 (4.23%) Blue Coat
14 2 (2.82%) Infoblox