SNMP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SNMP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SNMP 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 290 324 451
Rank change year-on-year +34 +127 +120
Contract jobs citing SNMP 14 21 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.34% 1.30% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 20
10th Percentile - £300 £400
25th Percentile - £338 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -19.05% +13.51%
75th Percentile £431 £515 £700
90th Percentile £488 £619 £779
UK median daily rate £475 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -7.77% -14.17% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £28.70 £20.40 £21.78
25th Percentile £44.00 £23.25 £26.69
Median hourly rate £58.75 £24.50 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +139.80% -31.47% +30.00%
75th Percentile £62.81 £65.00 £45.19
90th Percentile £63.38 £68.00 £50.33
UK median hourly rate £57.63 £62.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year -7.06% +73.43% +30.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

SNMP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SNMP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SNMP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SNMP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SNMP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SNMP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SNMP
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SNMP hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SNMP
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 5 (35.71%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Akamai
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) npm
2 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Datadog
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) DNS
2 8 (57.14%) VPN
3 7 (50.00%) Firewall
3 7 (50.00%) LAN
4 6 (42.86%) BGP
4 6 (42.86%) Network Security
4 6 (42.86%) OSPF
5 5 (35.71%) IPsec
5 5 (35.71%) MPLS
5 5 (35.71%) SSL
5 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
5 5 (35.71%) WAN
6 4 (28.57%) DHCP
7 3 (21.43%) HTTP
7 3 (21.43%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (21.43%) TACACS
7 3 (21.43%) Wireless
8 2 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 4 (28.57%) Git
3 3 (21.43%) GoogleTest
3 3 (21.43%) Robot Framework
4 2 (14.29%) Eclipse
4 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) German Language
3 2 (14.29%) Military
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Software Test Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) 802.1X
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
3 2 (14.29%) LDAP
3 2 (14.29%) NETCONF
3 2 (14.29%) SAML
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
3 2 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (7.14%) FMCG
4 1 (7.14%) IoT
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Network Management
2 5 (35.71%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
3 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
3 3 (21.43%) SysML
3 3 (21.43%) UML
3 3 (21.43%) Validation
3 3 (21.43%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Kanban
4 2 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C++
1 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) Perl
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (42.86%) CCNP
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) CCNA
5 2 (14.29%) CCDP
5 2 (14.29%) CCIE
5 2 (14.29%) CCIE Security
6 1 (7.14%) BC Cleared
6 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (7.14%) CCIP
6 1 (7.14%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS
2 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) NIST
3 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 4 (28.57%) Juniper
2 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 3 (21.43%) F5
3 3 (21.43%) Google
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) ADVA
5 1 (7.14%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 1 (7.14%) Arista
5 1 (7.14%) Blue Coat
5 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.14%) Citrix
5 1 (7.14%) Meraki
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (7.14%) Riverbed
5 1 (7.14%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (7.14%) VMware
5 1 (7.14%) Zscaler