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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 511 480
Rank change year-on-year -91 -31 +84
Contract jobs citing SNMP 72 34 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.43% 0.88% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 39
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £331 £463 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +14.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £515
90th Percentile £677 £718 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £638 £450
% change year-on-year -23.61% +41.67% -13.04%
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% +75.00%
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% +75.00%

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 5,052 3,881 4,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.43% 11.81% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,987 2,350 2,889
10th Percentile £250 £245 £221
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.58% -5.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 203 315
10th Percentile £15.18 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% -5.61% -10.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.95 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £45.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -41.91% -18.00% -2.86%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -93 65 £487 +2.53% 21
UK excluding London -67 47 £487 -23.61% 15
Work from Home -38 20 £545 +28.24% 5
South West - 16 £371 - 3
London -73 15 £500 +5.26% 7
West Midlands -36 11 £573 +4.18% 1
Midlands -42 11 £573 +4.18% 2
South East -76 7 £325 - 5
East of England - 7 £550 - 2
North of England - 6 £350 - 4
North West - 3 £350 - 3
Yorkshire - 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
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.89%) AWS
1 10 (13.89%) Azure
2 6 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.78%) Datadog
4 2 (2.78%) GCP
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%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.06%) DNS
2 12 (16.67%) WAN
3 11 (15.28%) DHCP
3 11 (15.28%) Firewall
4 10 (13.89%) BGP
4 10 (13.89%) TCP/IP
5 8 (11.11%) TACACS
6 7 (9.72%) MPLS
7 6 (8.33%) LAN
7 6 (8.33%) VPN
8 5 (6.94%) SD-WAN
8 5 (6.94%) VLAN
9 4 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (5.56%) EIGRP
9 4 (5.56%) ICMP
9 4 (5.56%) OSPF
9 4 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (4.17%) Network Security
10 3 (4.17%) SSL
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%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.56%) 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 25 (34.72%) Consultant
2 14 (19.44%) Management Consultant
3 7 (9.72%) Network Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) 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%) IP Specialist
7 2 (2.78%) Network Support
7 2 (2.78%) Network Support Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Senior
7 2 (2.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (29.17%) REST
2 11 (15.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (9.72%) eBPF
3 7 (9.72%) NETCONF
3 7 (9.72%) YANG
4 6 (8.33%) OpenConfig
4 6 (8.33%) RESTCONF
5 3 (4.17%) Redfish
6 1 (1.39%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.39%) JSON
6 1 (1.39%) RESTful
6 1 (1.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.72%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.94%) CMDB
5 4 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.39%) Life Science
7 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.39%) SCADA
7 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (41.67%) Linux
2 27 (37.50%) Windows
3 18 (25.00%) AIX
4 2 (2.78%) VMS
5 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Dashboard Development
2 25 (34.72%) Observability
3 14 (19.44%) Change Management
3 14 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (18.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 12 (16.67%) ITSM
6 11 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (13.89%) CI/CD
7 10 (13.89%) Network Management
7 10 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (13.89%) Project Delivery
8 9 (12.50%) DevOps
8 9 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 9 (12.50%) SIEM
9 8 (11.11%) AIOps
9 8 (11.11%) Anomaly Detection
9 8 (11.11%) Architectural Design
9 8 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (11.11%) Use Case
10 7 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 43 (59.72%) Python
2 22 (30.56%) SQL
3 19 (26.39%) PowerShell
4 18 (25.00%) Search Processing Language
5 12 (16.67%) Bash
6 1 (1.39%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 33 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 27 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.06%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 7 (9.72%) CCIE
6 6 (8.33%) JNCIE
7 5 (6.94%) CCNA
8 3 (4.17%) CCNP
9 2 (2.78%) Degree
10 1 (1.39%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.39%) CISM
10 1 (1.39%) CISSP
10 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.39%) ECDL
10 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.39%) MCSE
10 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) 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
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (33.33%) ZABBIX
2 22 (30.56%) Ansible
3 21 (29.17%) Nagios
4 18 (25.00%) Netcool
5 17 (23.61%) Tivoli
6 15 (20.83%) OpenView
6 15 (20.83%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 13 (18.06%) Terraform
8 12 (16.67%) Prometheus
9 10 (13.89%) Grafana
10 8 (11.11%) WMI
11 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
12 2 (2.78%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (1.39%) Icinga
13 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (52.78%) Splunk
2 32 (44.44%) SolarWinds
3 22 (30.56%) Cisco
4 19 (26.39%) BMC
4 19 (26.39%) F5
4 19 (26.39%) Fortinet
5 17 (23.61%) IBM
6 15 (20.83%) HP
6 15 (20.83%) ServiceNow
7 12 (16.67%) Palo Alto
8 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
9 10 (13.89%) VMware
10 8 (11.11%) Dynatrace
11 7 (9.72%) Cribl.io
11 7 (9.72%) Juniper
12 4 (5.56%) CheckPoint
12 4 (5.56%) SevOne
13 3 (4.17%) Blue Coat
13 3 (4.17%) Dell
13 3 (4.17%) NetScout