SNA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SNA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SNA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 336 465
Rank change year-on-year +36 +129 +165
Contract jobs citing SNA 4 9 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.059% 0.046%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.56% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile - £570 £600
25th Percentile £506 £597 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £619 £640
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -3.32% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £686
90th Percentile - £643 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £625 £635
% change year-on-year -18.00% -1.57% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

SNA 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

SNA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SNA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SNA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SNA.

SNA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SNA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SNA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SNA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CICS
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Network Management
1 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace