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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 324 418
Rank change year-on-year +17 +94 +133
Contract jobs citing SNMP 7 23 38
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.069% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.63% 1.49% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 31
10th Percentile £110 £300 £319
25th Percentile £186 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +1.06% +0.64%
75th Percentile £431 £600 £564
90th Percentile £488 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £53.50 £18.98 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £19.69 £18.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 £21.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +176.47% -3.41% -22.81%
75th Percentile £61.25 £22.69 £32.56
90th Percentile £62.00 £23.33 £45.28
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +218.18% -44.49%

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 1,116 1,543 2,853
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.97% 10.59% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 992 1,879
10th Percentile £313 £300 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 70 105
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £18.90
25th Percentile £40.50 £14.27 £30.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £87.46 £79.83
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -22.41%

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
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SNMP over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

SNMP daily rate histogram 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
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 4 (57.14%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Akamai
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) npm
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Datadog
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) BGP
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) HTTP
2 3 (42.86%) OSPF
3 2 (28.57%) EIGRP
3 2 (28.57%) HTTPS
3 2 (28.57%) IPsec
3 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (28.57%) SMTP
3 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (28.57%) SSL
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) DMVPN
4 1 (14.29%) GLBP
4 1 (14.29%) Multicast
4 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
2 3 (42.86%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) GoogleTest
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) Robot Framework
4 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
4 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) OSS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) FMCG
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Network Management
2 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) SysML
2 2 (28.57%) UML
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Due Diligence
3 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCDP
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Nagios
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Arista
3 1 (14.29%) Blue Coat
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) NetScout
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Riverbed
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) SevOne
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Zscaler