SNMP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SNMP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 516 662
Rank change year-on-year -55 +146 -74
Permanent jobs citing SNMP 44 25 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.061% 0.074% 0.080%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.86% 0.45% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36 20 47
10th Percentile £34,375 £44,875 £30,800
25th Percentile £45,313 £55,184 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +11.11% +27.06%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - £84,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.83% +4.35% +35.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SNMP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,104 5,617 8,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.04% 16.55% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,477 3,051 5,904
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,087 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -15.56% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,057 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -11.46% -7.69%

SNMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SNMP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SNMP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SNMP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SNMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SNMP

SNMP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SNMP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SNMP in the UK excluding London

SNMP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SNMP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -34 19 £72,500 +20.83% 3
North of England - 14 £41,000 - 1
North West - 10 £41,000 - 1
South West -56 5 £65,000 +15.82%
North East - 4 - -
East of England -8 3 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Midlands - 2 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £52,500 - 1
Scotland - 1 £72,500 -
SNMP
UK

SNMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.82%) IaaS
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.82%) Mimecast
4 3 (6.82%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Datadog
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 30 (68.18%) WAN
2 28 (63.64%) BGP
3 26 (59.09%) VPN
4 23 (52.27%) VLAN
5 19 (43.18%) DNS
5 19 (43.18%) Network Security
5 19 (43.18%) SD-WAN
6 18 (40.91%) DHCP
7 17 (38.64%) MPLS
8 16 (36.36%) HTTP
9 14 (31.82%) Firewall
10 11 (25.00%) IPsec
10 11 (25.00%) SSL
11 10 (22.73%) FTP
11 10 (22.73%) ICMP
11 10 (22.73%) SSH
12 8 (18.18%) OSPF
13 7 (15.91%) LAN
13 7 (15.91%) TCP/IP
14 6 (13.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
2 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Law
4 4 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.82%) Aerospace
5 3 (6.82%) Legal
5 3 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.55%) Aviation
6 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) German Language
7 1 (2.27%) Military
7 1 (2.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Architect
2 14 (31.82%) Network Architect
3 10 (22.73%) Network Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Network Security Architect
3 10 (22.73%) Security Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Analyst
4 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Senior
5 4 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Monitoring Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Monitoring Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Network Monitoring Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Network Monitoring Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Network Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Support Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Systems Support
6 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) SAML
2 10 (22.73%) OAuth
3 4 (9.09%) gRPC
4 2 (4.55%) .NET
4 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.55%) HTML
4 2 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.27%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (22.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 7 (15.91%) PKI
4 3 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Windows
2 7 (15.91%) Linux
2 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.36%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (11.36%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (4.55%) VMS
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 10 (22.73%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 8 (18.18%) High Availability
3 8 (18.18%) Network Design
3 8 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
3 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (15.91%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (15.91%) Incident Response
4 7 (15.91%) Project Delivery
5 6 (13.64%) Computer Science
5 6 (13.64%) Cryptography
5 6 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
5 6 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
5 6 (13.64%) Observability
5 6 (13.64%) Performance Testing
5 6 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) Python
2 3 (6.82%) Bash
3 2 (4.55%) C
3 2 (4.55%) C#
3 2 (4.55%) C++
3 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (18.18%) Degree
3 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.64%) CCNP
4 6 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (11.36%) CCIE
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.27%) CCNA
7 1 (2.27%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.27%) LPIC
7 1 (2.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (29.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (29.55%) NIST
2 5 (11.36%) SLA
3 4 (9.09%) PMO
4 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.27%) ISO 14001
4 1 (2.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.09%) ProxySG
3 3 (6.82%) DFS Replication
3 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) FortiGate
2 10 (22.73%) CASB
3 6 (13.64%) Endace
3 6 (13.64%) Nagios
4 4 (9.09%) Grafana
4 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.09%) ZABBIX
5 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (6.82%) Tivoli
6 2 (4.55%) Netcool
7 1 (2.27%) Ansible
7 1 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.27%) OpenView
7 1 (2.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (54.55%) Cisco
2 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 14 (31.82%) SolarWinds
4 10 (22.73%) F5
4 10 (22.73%) Palo Alto
5 8 (18.18%) VMware
6 6 (13.64%) Juniper
7 4 (9.09%) Blue Coat
7 4 (9.09%) CheckPoint
7 4 (9.09%) Infoblox
7 4 (9.09%) Motorola
7 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
8 3 (6.82%) Aderant
8 3 (6.82%) iManage
9 2 (4.55%) BMC
10 1 (2.27%) EMC
10 1 (2.27%) HP
10 1 (2.27%) IBM
10 1 (2.27%) Radware
10 1 (2.27%) Red Hat