Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SNMP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SNMP over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 749 758
Rank change year-on-year +60 +9 +330
Permanent jobs citing SNMP 38 159 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 1.16% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29 99 74
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,000 £32,575
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,121 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £60,500 £96,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +21.35% -1.11%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,404 13,710 15,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.46% 12.68% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,655 9,403 7,646
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £25,267 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,533 £44,886 £45,000
% change year-on-year -27.52% -0.25% -5.26%

SNMP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SNMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SNMP.

Salary trend for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SNMP over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SNMP within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +70 34 £56,121 -6.47% 53
UK excluding London +94 24 £60,000 +11.11% 34
South East +59 17 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Work from Home +40 13 £56,121 -25.17% 23
London +81 10 £47,500 -38.71% 24
South West +110 6 £56,121 +12.24% 1
East of England - 1 £50,000 - 7

SNMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (44.74%) Firewall
2 15 (39.47%) OSPF
3 14 (36.84%) EIGRP
4 9 (23.68%) IPsec
4 9 (23.68%) VPN
5 8 (21.05%) BGP
5 8 (21.05%) SAN
6 7 (18.42%) HSRP
6 7 (18.42%) NAS
6 7 (18.42%) SSH
6 7 (18.42%) VRRP
6 7 (18.42%) WAN
7 6 (15.79%) RIP
7 6 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (13.16%) IP Telephony
9 3 (7.89%) DNS
9 3 (7.89%) Network Security
9 3 (7.89%) Wireshark
10 2 (5.26%) DHCP
10 2 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) GitLab
1 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 19 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Banking
3 6 (15.79%) Investment Banking
3 6 (15.79%) Police
4 3 (7.89%) Finance
4 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Network Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) Senior
3 10 (26.32%) Field Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) Field Service Engineer
4 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (18.42%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) IT Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) IT Support
6 5 (13.16%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) ITSM Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) Site Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (42.11%) Driving Licence
2 11 (28.95%) Data Centre
3 6 (15.79%) IPTV
4 5 (13.16%) Blackberry
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.63%) PKI
6 1 (2.63%) Smartcard
6 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Windows
2 6 (15.79%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Network Management
2 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (26.32%) Customer Service
3 10 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (26.32%) Preventative Maintenance
4 9 (23.68%) Computer Science
5 8 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (21.05%) Line Management
6 7 (18.42%) High Availability
6 7 (18.42%) High-Frequency Trading
6 7 (18.42%) Low Latency
7 6 (15.79%) Business Analysis
7 6 (15.79%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (15.79%) Inventory Management
7 6 (15.79%) Network Design
7 6 (15.79%) Risk Analysis
7 6 (15.79%) Strategic Thinking
7 6 (15.79%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.53%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) Bash
3 2 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (50.00%) Degree
2 9 (23.68%) CCNA
2 9 (23.68%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (13.16%) HND
4 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.26%) CCNP
6 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) COBIT
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Active Directory
1 8 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.89%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.26%) Docker
3 2 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Grafana
1 2 (5.26%) HAProxy
1 2 (5.26%) Istio
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.26%) linkerd
1 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
1 2 (5.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.63%) Nessus
2 1 (2.63%) WMI
2 1 (2.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Cisco
2 14 (36.84%) SolarWinds
3 13 (34.21%) CheckPoint
4 10 (26.32%) VMware
5 7 (18.42%) Arista
5 7 (18.42%) Fortinet
6 6 (15.79%) Bloomberg
6 6 (15.79%) Meraki
6 6 (15.79%) Refinitiv
6 6 (15.79%) Veeam
7 5 (13.16%) McAfee
7 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
8 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
9 3 (7.89%) F5
10 2 (5.26%) Google
10 2 (5.26%) Splunk
11 1 (2.63%) Avaya
11 1 (2.63%) Dell
11 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
11 1 (2.63%) SevOne