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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 699 617 967
Rank change year-on-year -82 +350 -51
Permanent jobs citing SNMP 79 147 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.78% 1.64% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 36 99 117
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £45,000 £52,035
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -13.52% -7.49%
75th Percentile £54,063 £57,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £82,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,982 £44,000 £52,170
% change year-on-year +2.23% -15.66% +14.91%

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 10,167 8,963 17,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 15.08% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,126 6,750 10,879
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,768 £28,528
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Top 12 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 23 October 2024. 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 -78 79 £41,250 -7.82% 22
UK excluding London -110 57 £44,982 +2.23% 18
Work from Home +15 31 £40,000 -19.30% 49
South East -30 27 £42,500 +28.79% 9
London +13 22 £40,000 -31.91% 4
East of England -31 11 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Midlands -48 11 - -
West Midlands -50 9 - -
North West -28 5 - - 4
North of England -39 5 - - 4
South West -24 3 £65,000 +44.44% 2
East Midlands -28 2 - -

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 29 (36.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.27%) IIS
2 1 (1.27%) nginx
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.13%) Azure
2 7 (8.86%) AWS
3 4 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.53%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (43.04%) DNS
2 30 (37.97%) DHCP
3 26 (32.91%) TCP/IP
4 25 (31.65%) SMTP
5 22 (27.85%) WAN
6 20 (25.32%) Firewall
6 20 (25.32%) LAN
7 16 (20.25%) NAS
7 16 (20.25%) SAN
8 14 (17.72%) FTP
9 13 (16.46%) VPN
10 12 (15.19%) Internet
10 12 (15.19%) Network Security
11 11 (13.92%) VLAN
12 10 (12.66%) BGP
12 10 (12.66%) MPLS
13 8 (10.13%) HTTP
13 8 (10.13%) Intranet
13 8 (10.13%) OSPF
14 7 (8.86%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.72%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.33%) Big Data
2 5 (6.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.53%) MySQL
3 2 (2.53%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Git
2 5 (6.33%) GitLab
2 5 (6.33%) JIRA
3 4 (5.06%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.53%) Subversion
General
1 30 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Legal
3 8 (10.13%) Banking
4 7 (8.86%) Finance
5 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Retail
7 2 (2.53%) Military
7 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (18.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (16.46%) Desktop Engineer
3 12 (15.19%) IT Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Senior
4 10 (12.66%) Support Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Network Manager
7 7 (8.86%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) IT Support
8 6 (7.59%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) Architect
9 5 (6.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 4 (5.06%) C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Support
10 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Network Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Windows Engineer
11 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.33%) EDI
1 5 (6.33%) LDAP
2 2 (2.53%) .NET
2 2 (2.53%) WinForms
2 2 (2.53%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.72%) Onboarding
2 11 (13.92%) Management Information System
3 10 (12.66%) Blackberry
3 10 (12.66%) Clustering
4 8 (10.13%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (10.13%) Driving Licence
5 7 (8.86%) Data Centre
6 6 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (7.59%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (6.33%) Raspberry Pi
7 5 (6.33%) Robotics
8 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (5.06%) Virtual Team
9 3 (3.80%) FPGA
10 2 (2.53%) IoT
11 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
11 1 (1.27%) Hedge funds
11 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (60.76%) Windows
2 40 (50.63%) Linux
3 14 (17.72%) Windows 10
4 9 (11.39%) CentOS
5 8 (10.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (8.86%) Windows Server
7 3 (3.80%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.53%) Solaris
9 1 (1.27%) Unix
9 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.57%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (30.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (21.52%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (21.52%) High Availability
4 16 (20.25%) Computer Science
5 15 (18.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (17.72%) Kalman Filter
7 11 (13.92%) DevOps
7 11 (13.92%) Mobile Device Management
8 10 (12.66%) Analytics
8 10 (12.66%) Change Control
8 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (12.66%) Virtual Environments
9 9 (11.39%) Customer Service
9 9 (11.39%) Patch Management
10 8 (10.13%) Data Protection
10 8 (10.13%) Network Management
10 8 (10.13%) Server Building
11 7 (8.86%) ITIL
11 7 (8.86%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.11%) PowerShell
2 19 (24.05%) Python
3 13 (16.46%) Perl
4 9 (11.39%) Java
4 9 (11.39%) PHP
4 9 (11.39%) Shell Script
5 8 (10.13%) Bash
6 6 (7.59%) C#
6 6 (7.59%) C++
7 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.53%) C
8 2 (2.53%) Embedded C
8 2 (2.53%) Embedded C++
8 2 (2.53%) SQL
8 2 (2.53%) XAML
Qualifications
1 28 (35.44%) DV Cleared
1 28 (35.44%) Security Cleared
2 27 (34.18%) Degree
3 15 (18.99%) SC Cleared
4 14 (17.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (12.66%) HND
6 8 (10.13%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (10.13%) Master's Degree
7 5 (6.33%) CCIE
7 5 (6.33%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (5.06%) MCSA
8 4 (5.06%) MCSE
9 2 (2.53%) CCNA
9 2 (2.53%) HNC
9 2 (2.53%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.27%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (2.53%) SLA
3 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 31 (39.24%) Active Directory
2 27 (34.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (18.99%) Docker
4 7 (8.86%) Hyper-V
5 6 (7.59%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.53%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.27%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.27%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Ansible
1 6 (7.59%) Grafana
1 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
1 6 (7.59%) vCenter Server
2 5 (6.33%) Cacti
2 5 (6.33%) Nagios
3 4 (5.06%) SCCM
3 4 (5.06%) WMI
4 2 (2.53%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.53%) Puppet
4 2 (2.53%) WSUS
5 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.27%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.27%) Istio
5 1 (1.27%) linkerd
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (40.51%) VMware
2 24 (30.38%) Microsoft
3 14 (17.72%) Cisco
4 10 (12.66%) McAfee
4 10 (12.66%) Veeam
5 9 (11.39%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.33%) F5
7 4 (5.06%) Aruba
7 4 (5.06%) HP
7 4 (5.06%) Oracle
7 4 (5.06%) Palo Alto
7 4 (5.06%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.80%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.80%) Google
9 2 (2.53%) Bloomberg
9 2 (2.53%) Capita
9 2 (2.53%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.53%) Juniper
9 2 (2.53%) Parasoft
9 2 (2.53%) Reuters