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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 502 533
Rank change year-on-year -24 +31 +177
Contract jobs citing SNMP 39 71 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.03% 1.57% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 62
10th Percentile £313 £353 £320
25th Percentile £409 £404 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -10.05% -8.03%
75th Percentile £670 £500 £550
90th Percentile £688 £670 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £425 £460
% change year-on-year +29.41% -7.61% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 13
10th Percentile - £47.98 £24.60
25th Percentile - £62.50 £32.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - £71.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +13.45%

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 3,799 4,523 6,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.41% 12.08% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 2,597 4,114
10th Percentile £213 £225 £223
25th Percentile £358 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £601 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £480 £465
% change year-on-year -5.52% +3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 179 328
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.09 £17.24
25th Percentile £19.12 £24.59 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -29.98% -13.97% +41.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.48 £52.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -21.00% -7.06% +25.53%

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 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025. 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 -9 32 £475 +11.76% 18
London +29 17 £538 -20.37% 3
UK excluding London -47 17 £550 +29.41% 14
Work from Home +19 11 £403 -32.88% 16
South East -2 7 £325 - 7
North of England -38 7 £409 +0.37% 4
North West -14 4 £403 +79.00% 4
Yorkshire -31 3 £675 +65.64%
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -
Midlands -17 1 £550 +10.00% 3
West Midlands -20 1 £550 +10.00% 3

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 6 (15.38%) OpenStack
2 3 (7.69%) TPMS
3 2 (5.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) AWS
2 7 (17.95%) Akamai
3 6 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.13%) Azure
5 2 (5.13%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (43.59%) BGP
1 17 (43.59%) Firewall
2 16 (41.03%) OSPF
3 11 (28.21%) WAN
4 8 (20.51%) VPN
5 7 (17.95%) Cisco ISE
5 7 (17.95%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (17.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 7 (17.95%) MPLS
5 7 (17.95%) Network Security
5 7 (17.95%) TACACS
5 7 (17.95%) Wireless
5 7 (17.95%) Wireshark
6 6 (15.38%) LAN
6 6 (15.38%) SD-WAN
6 6 (15.38%) SSH
7 5 (12.82%) SSL
7 5 (12.82%) VLAN
8 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
9 3 (7.69%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Git
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 9 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.13%) Local Government
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Network Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Designer
3 6 (15.38%) IP Designer
4 5 (12.82%) Cryptography Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Juniper Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Network Designer
6 2 (5.13%) Network Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) OSS Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Professional Services Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Senior
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.56%) gRPC
2 1 (2.56%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (38.46%) Data Centre
2 8 (20.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.69%) CMDB
4 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.56%) Life Science
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Incident Response
1 10 (25.64%) Network Segmentation
2 9 (23.08%) High Availability
2 9 (23.08%) Validation
3 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (12.82%) Cryptography
4 5 (12.82%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (12.82%) Observability
5 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
5 4 (10.26%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (10.26%) Load Balancing
5 4 (10.26%) Server Building
6 3 (7.69%) Data Security
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (7.69%) Roadmaps
6 3 (7.69%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.26%) Bash
4 3 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (7.69%) Perl
4 3 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 8 (20.51%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) CCIE
3 7 (17.95%) JNCIE
4 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (7.69%) FFIEC
5 2 (5.13%) CEH
5 2 (5.13%) CISSP
6 1 (2.56%) CCNA
6 1 (2.56%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) PCI DSS
2 5 (12.82%) NIST
3 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (7.69%) GDPR
4 3 (7.69%) GLBA
5 2 (5.13%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (5.13%) NCSC
6 1 (2.56%) GRC
6 1 (2.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.95%) Docker
3 6 (15.38%) VMware NSX
4 3 (7.69%) Firmware
5 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Ansible
2 7 (17.95%) FortiGate
2 7 (17.95%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.13%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (5.13%) SCCM
5 1 (2.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) Cisco
2 18 (46.15%) Juniper
3 14 (35.90%) Fortinet
4 13 (33.33%) F5
5 11 (28.21%) VMware
6 10 (25.64%) SolarWinds
7 6 (15.38%) Splunk
8 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
9 4 (10.26%) Thales
10 3 (7.69%) AppDynamics
10 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
11 2 (5.13%) ForeScout
11 2 (5.13%) Meraki
11 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
12 1 (2.56%) Aruba
12 1 (2.56%) Dell
12 1 (2.56%) EMC
12 1 (2.56%) NetScout
12 1 (2.56%) Remedy
12 1 (2.56%) SevOne