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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 516 513
Rank change year-on-year -72 -3 +60
Contract jobs citing SNMP 71 34 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.42% 0.85% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 14 47
10th Percentile £304 £269 £290
25th Percentile £325 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £581 £594 £558
90th Percentile £688 £723 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £638 £481
% change year-on-year -30.47% +32.47% -10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 16
10th Percentile - £51.78 £41.63
25th Percentile - £53.22 £68.13
Median hourly rate £72.54 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.16% -17.86% +218.18%
75th Percentile - £59.78 -
90th Percentile - £61.31 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.54 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +26.16% -17.86% +218.18%

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 5,000 3,986 5,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.49% 12.20% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,038 2,436 3,162
10th Percentile £238 £233 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +2.81% -3.67% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 193 425
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.64
25th Percentile £19.34 £24.66 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.78% +7.56% +49.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.28 £73.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -38.82% -10.53% +5.56%

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 13 July 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 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 13 July 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 -77 62 £475 - 16
UK excluding London -60 45 £443 -30.47% 15
Work from Home -47 17 £552 +29.88% 7
South West - 17 £371 -
London -69 14 £500 +5.26% 4
Midlands -41 9 £581 +5.64% 4
West Midlands -57 9 £581 +5.64% 4
East of England -15 7 £550 - 3
South East -74 7 £425 +30.77% 6
North of England - 5 £350 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £675 -
North West - 2 £313 - 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 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.41%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (8.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.08%) AWS
1 10 (14.08%) Azure
2 6 (8.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (8.45%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (7.04%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.23%) GCP
5 2 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.82%) Datadog
5 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.82%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.41%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.41%) IaaS
6 1 (1.41%) IBM Watson
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.90%) DNS
1 12 (16.90%) WAN
2 10 (14.08%) DHCP
2 10 (14.08%) Firewall
2 10 (14.08%) TCP/IP
3 9 (12.68%) BGP
4 7 (9.86%) MPLS
5 6 (8.45%) LAN
5 6 (8.45%) SSH
5 6 (8.45%) SSL
5 6 (8.45%) TACACS
5 6 (8.45%) VPN
6 4 (5.63%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (5.63%) HTTP
6 4 (5.63%) OSPF
6 4 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (4.23%) 5G
7 3 (4.23%) FTP
7 3 (4.23%) SMTP
7 3 (4.23%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.41%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Git
2 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.41%) GitLab
3 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.45%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.63%) Finance
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Police
6 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) Consultant
2 14 (19.72%) Management Consultant
3 7 (9.86%) Architect
4 5 (7.04%) Network Architect
4 5 (7.04%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Network Consultant
5 4 (5.63%) Senior
6 3 (4.23%) Administrator
6 3 (4.23%) Cloud Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) IP Network Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) ITSM Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Splunk Consultant
7 2 (2.82%) IP Specialist
7 2 (2.82%) Server Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.99%) REST
2 11 (15.49%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (9.86%) eBPF
3 7 (9.86%) NETCONF
3 7 (9.86%) YANG
4 6 (8.45%) OpenConfig
4 6 (8.45%) RESTCONF
5 3 (4.23%) Redfish
6 2 (2.82%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.82%) JSON
7 1 (1.41%) RESTful
7 1 (1.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
1 8 (11.27%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (8.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (8.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.63%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) CMDB
6 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.41%) PKI
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (45.07%) Linux
1 32 (45.07%) Windows
2 18 (25.35%) AIX
3 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) Dashboard Development
1 21 (29.58%) Observability
2 12 (16.90%) ITSM
2 12 (16.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 11 (15.49%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (15.49%) Project Delivery
4 10 (14.08%) Change Management
4 10 (14.08%) DevOps
4 10 (14.08%) Network Management
4 10 (14.08%) SIEM
5 9 (12.68%) CI/CD
5 9 (12.68%) Performance Optimisation
5 9 (12.68%) Roadmaps
5 9 (12.68%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (11.27%) AIOps
6 8 (11.27%) Anomaly Detection
6 8 (11.27%) Architectural Design
6 8 (11.27%) Use Case
7 7 (9.86%) Network Design
7 7 (9.86%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 43 (60.56%) Python
2 22 (30.99%) SQL
3 19 (26.76%) PowerShell
4 17 (23.94%) Search Processing Language
5 13 (18.31%) Bash
6 2 (2.82%) ActionScript
6 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 34 (47.89%) Security Cleared
2 27 (38.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.49%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (12.68%) DV Cleared
5 8 (11.27%) CCIE
6 7 (9.86%) JNCIE
7 4 (5.63%) CCNP
8 3 (4.23%) CCNA
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.41%) CCDA
9 1 (1.41%) CCDP
9 1 (1.41%) CCIP
9 1 (1.41%) CISM
9 1 (1.41%) CISSP
9 1 (1.41%) Degree
9 1 (1.41%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.41%) OCP
9 1 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.82%) NCSC
1 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) GLBA
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.63%) Firmware
2 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.82%) vSphere
3 1 (1.41%) Docker
3 1 (1.41%) KVM
3 1 (1.41%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 23 (32.39%) Ansible
1 23 (32.39%) ZABBIX
2 19 (26.76%) Nagios
3 18 (25.35%) Netcool
4 17 (23.94%) Tivoli
5 15 (21.13%) OpenView
5 15 (21.13%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 13 (18.31%) Prometheus
6 13 (18.31%) Terraform
7 11 (15.49%) Grafana
8 8 (11.27%) WMI
9 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
10 2 (2.82%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (1.41%) CASB
11 1 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (1.41%) Fluentd
11 1 (1.41%) Icinga
11 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.41%) MOM
Vendors
1 39 (54.93%) Splunk
2 30 (42.25%) SolarWinds
3 21 (29.58%) Cisco
4 20 (28.17%) Fortinet
5 19 (26.76%) BMC
5 19 (26.76%) F5
6 17 (23.94%) IBM
7 16 (22.54%) HP
8 14 (19.72%) ServiceNow
9 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
9 13 (18.31%) Palo Alto
10 9 (12.68%) Juniper
11 8 (11.27%) Dynatrace
12 7 (9.86%) Cribl.io
13 5 (7.04%) CheckPoint
14 4 (5.63%) Infoblox
14 4 (5.63%) VMware
15 3 (4.23%) Arista
15 3 (4.23%) Blue Coat
15 3 (4.23%) Dell