SNMP Contracts

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SNMP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SNMP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 580 721
Rank change year-on-year +93 +141 -130
Contract jobs citing SNMP 88 102 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.62% 1.43% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 86 71
10th Percentile £300 £341 £250
25th Percentile £350 £450 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £533 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +9.33% -2.50%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £599
90th Percentile £648 - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -25.00% +18.18% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 4
10th Percentile £37.88 - -
25th Percentile £61.50 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £19.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +255.26% -24.75% -43.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.63 £35.38
90th Percentile - £46.90 £44.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +268.42% -13.64% -45.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SNMP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SNMP.

Daily rate trend for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SNMP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SNMP.

Hourly rate trend for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SNMP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SNMP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +80 81 £515 -3.38% 19
UK excluding London +20 48 £488 -25.00% 13
London +106 35 £600 +14.29% 4
South East +25 27 £400 -5.88% 7
Work from Home +104 22 £475 -8.30% 6
North West +27 13 £515 +14.44%
North of England +26 13 £515 +14.44% 2
South West +4 5 £488 -
Scotland - 2 £365 - 1
Midlands +12 1 - - 3
West Midlands +9 1 - -

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 21 (23.86%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.14%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.64%) Azure
2 9 (10.23%) AWS
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.41%) Datadog
5 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.14%) PaaS
6 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (44.32%) BGP
2 32 (36.36%) Firewall
3 30 (34.09%) HSRP
4 28 (31.82%) OSPF
5 27 (30.68%) DNS
6 26 (29.55%) MPLS
7 25 (28.41%) Cisco ASA
8 21 (23.86%) IPsec
9 19 (21.59%) Software-Defined Radio
10 17 (19.32%) Spanning Tree
10 17 (19.32%) TCP/IP
10 17 (19.32%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (18.18%) DHCP
12 15 (17.05%) Cisco ISE
12 15 (17.05%) EIGRP
13 14 (15.91%) Network Security
13 14 (15.91%) WAN
14 13 (14.77%) VPLS
14 13 (14.77%) VRRP
15 12 (13.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) NonStop SQL
1 4 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (27.27%) Git
2 20 (22.73%) Eclipse
3 18 (20.45%) GoogleTest
3 18 (20.45%) JIRA
3 18 (20.45%) Robot Framework
4 16 (18.18%) Bitbucket
5 6 (6.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (4.55%) GitLab
7 1 (1.14%) LabVIEW
General
1 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.36%) Aerospace
3 9 (10.23%) Telecoms
4 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Finance
6 1 (1.14%) Electronics
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (35.23%) Network Engineer
2 15 (17.05%) Software Engineer
3 13 (14.77%) Senior
4 12 (13.64%) C++ Software Engineer
5 10 (11.36%) IP Expert
6 8 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Architect
7 7 (7.95%) Embedded Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Java Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Cisco Expert
8 5 (5.68%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Telephony Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Voice Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.41%) Jinja
2 17 (19.32%) HTML
3 16 (18.18%) CSS
4 15 (17.05%) NETCONF
5 13 (14.77%) JSON
5 13 (14.77%) XML
5 13 (14.77%) YANG
6 3 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.41%) RESTful
7 2 (2.27%) 802.1X
7 2 (2.27%) LDAP
8 1 (1.14%) Regular Expression
8 1 (1.14%) Web Services
8 1 (1.14%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 10 (11.36%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (5.68%) Clustering
3 5 (5.68%) PKI
4 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.27%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.14%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (1.14%) BBC
6 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.14%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 31 (35.23%) Linux
2 15 (17.05%) Windows
3 7 (7.95%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.68%) DevOps
2 25 (28.41%) Agile
3 24 (27.27%) ITIL
4 22 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 21 (23.86%) Scrum
6 20 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (19.32%) Change Management
7 17 (19.32%) SysML
7 17 (19.32%) UML
7 17 (19.32%) Validation
8 16 (18.18%) Network Management
9 14 (15.91%) Prototyping
9 14 (15.91%) Verification and Validation
10 13 (14.77%) Load Balancing
11 11 (12.50%) ITSM
11 11 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
12 10 (11.36%) Test Planning
13 8 (9.09%) Migration
14 6 (6.82%) High Availability
14 6 (6.82%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.59%) C++
1 19 (21.59%) Python
2 17 (19.32%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.77%) Perl
4 12 (13.64%) Tcl
5 9 (10.23%) Java
6 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.14%) C
7 1 (1.14%) Groovy
7 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.14%) SQL
7 1 (1.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (34.09%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (26.14%) CCNP
3 21 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 21 (23.86%) Security Cleared
4 17 (19.32%) CCNA
5 8 (9.09%) Degree
6 7 (7.95%) CCDP
7 5 (5.68%) CCIE
7 5 (5.68%) CCIE Service Provider
8 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (2.27%) BC Cleared
9 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.27%) CCIP
9 2 (2.27%) CCSK
9 2 (2.27%) CCSP
9 2 (2.27%) CISM
9 2 (2.27%) CISSP
10 1 (1.14%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) NCSC
1 3 (3.41%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) GRC
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 28 (31.82%) Firmware
2 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.27%) KVM
3 2 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.27%) XenApp
4 1 (1.14%) Docker
4 1 (1.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 19 (21.59%) Ansible
2 4 (4.55%) Nagios
2 4 (4.55%) OpenView
2 4 (4.55%) Terraform
3 3 (3.41%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.41%) Kibana
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.27%) Nmap
4 2 (2.27%) OpenNMS
4 2 (2.27%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.14%) Grafana
5 1 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.14%) TADDM
5 1 (1.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 48 (54.55%) Cisco
2 22 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 18 (20.45%) Google
3 18 (20.45%) SolarWinds
4 16 (18.18%) Atlassian
5 14 (15.91%) Citrix
6 13 (14.77%) Fortinet
7 11 (12.50%) Nokia
8 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
9 8 (9.09%) Aruba
9 8 (9.09%) Juniper
10 6 (6.82%) Meraki
10 6 (6.82%) Splunk
10 6 (6.82%) Zscaler
11 5 (5.68%) Arista
12 4 (4.55%) BigPanda
13 3 (3.41%) AlienVault
13 3 (3.41%) F5
13 3 (3.41%) Infoblox
14 2 (2.27%) SonicWALL