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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 610 735
Rank change year-on-year +127 +125 -159
Contract jobs citing SNMP 90 90 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.67% 1.27% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 75 69
10th Percentile £300 £373 £275
25th Percentile £350 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £480
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +25.00% +0.21%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £588
90th Percentile £638 £709 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £693 £550
% change year-on-year -29.65% +26.00% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 4
10th Percentile £32.03 £21.78 -
25th Percentile £60.50 £26.69 £21.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £35.75 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +74.83% +41.58% -43.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.19 £35.38
90th Percentile - £50.33 £44.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £35.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +78.32% +62.50% -51.11%

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 5,394 7,082 9,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 12.40% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,571 6,235
10th Percentile £205 £235 £232
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 464 368
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -8.99%

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 15 May 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 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SNMP in the UK

SNMP
Top 12 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 15 May 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 +103 84 £515 -14.17% 23
UK excluding London +38 47 £488 -29.65% 19
London +120 38 £600 +12.57% 7
South East +36 25 £400 - 8
Work from Home +121 22 £440 -16.19% 8
North West +28 13 £515 +14.44%
North of England +27 13 £515 -10.43% 2
South West +15 5 £488 - 2
Scotland - 2 £365 - 1
Midlands +21 1 - - 5
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2
East of England -10 1 £875 +25.00%

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 19 (21.11%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.11%) MTS
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.44%) Azure
2 9 (10.00%) AWS
2 9 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.22%) Datadog
4 2 (2.22%) GCP
5 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.11%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 43 (47.78%) BGP
2 34 (37.78%) HSRP
3 32 (35.56%) Firewall
4 31 (34.44%) MPLS
5 28 (31.11%) OSPF
6 27 (30.00%) DNS
7 25 (27.78%) Cisco ASA
8 21 (23.33%) IPsec
9 18 (20.00%) Software-Defined Radio
9 18 (20.00%) TCP/IP
10 17 (18.89%) DHCP
10 17 (18.89%) Spanning Tree
10 17 (18.89%) VPLS
10 17 (18.89%) VRRP
10 17 (18.89%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
11 15 (16.67%) EIGRP
12 14 (15.56%) IPv4
12 14 (15.56%) RSVP
12 14 (15.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (24.44%) Git
2 18 (20.00%) Eclipse
3 17 (18.89%) GoogleTest
3 17 (18.89%) JIRA
3 17 (18.89%) Robot Framework
4 15 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 5 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.33%) GitLab
7 1 (1.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 19 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 9 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (1.11%) Electronics
5 1 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (34.44%) Network Engineer
2 14 (15.56%) IP Expert
3 13 (14.44%) Software Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Senior
5 10 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Cisco Expert
7 7 (7.78%) Java Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Architect
9 5 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Telephony Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Voice Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.22%) Jinja
2 19 (21.11%) NETCONF
3 17 (18.89%) JSON
3 17 (18.89%) XML
3 17 (18.89%) YANG
4 15 (16.67%) CSS
4 15 (16.67%) HTML
5 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.33%) RESTful
6 2 (2.22%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.11%) LDAP
7 1 (1.11%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.11%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Distributed Architecture
2 12 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.56%) Clustering
3 5 (5.56%) PKI
4 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.11%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (1.11%) BBC
6 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.11%) Linux
2 16 (17.78%) Windows
3 6 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) DevOps
2 23 (25.56%) ITIL
3 22 (24.44%) Agile
4 20 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 19 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (20.00%) Network Management
6 18 (20.00%) Scrum
6 18 (20.00%) Validation
7 17 (18.89%) Change Management
8 16 (17.78%) SysML
8 16 (17.78%) UML
9 15 (16.67%) Prototyping
9 15 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
10 14 (15.56%) Test Planning
11 12 (13.33%) Load Balancing
12 11 (12.22%) ITSM
12 11 (12.22%) Network Monitoring
13 8 (8.89%) Migration
14 6 (6.67%) High Availability
14 6 (6.67%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.00%) Python
2 17 (18.89%) C++
3 15 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.33%) Perl
4 12 (13.33%) Tcl
5 9 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.11%) C
7 1 (1.11%) Groovy
7 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (35.56%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (25.56%) CCNP
3 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
4 20 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 17 (18.89%) CCNA
6 7 (7.78%) CCDP
6 7 (7.78%) CCIE
6 7 (7.78%) CCIE Service Provider
6 7 (7.78%) Degree
7 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (2.22%) BC Cleared
8 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.22%) CCIP
8 2 (2.22%) CCSK
8 2 (2.22%) CCSP
8 2 (2.22%) CISM
8 2 (2.22%) CISSP
9 1 (1.11%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) NCSC
1 3 (3.33%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) GRC
2 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (2.22%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 27 (30.00%) Firmware
2 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.22%) KVM
3 2 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.22%) XenApp
4 1 (1.11%) Docker
4 1 (1.11%) NFS
4 1 (1.11%) Terminal Server
4 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Ansible
2 4 (4.44%) Nagios
2 4 (4.44%) OpenView
2 4 (4.44%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.33%) Kibana
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.22%) Nmap
4 2 (2.22%) OpenNMS
4 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.22%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.11%) Grafana
5 1 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (55.56%) Cisco
2 22 (24.44%) Palo Alto
3 19 (21.11%) SolarWinds
4 17 (18.89%) Google
5 15 (16.67%) Atlassian
5 15 (16.67%) Citrix
5 15 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 15 (16.67%) Nokia
6 11 (12.22%) Microsoft
7 8 (8.89%) Aruba
7 8 (8.89%) Juniper
8 6 (6.67%) Meraki
8 6 (6.67%) Zscaler
9 5 (5.56%) Arista
9 5 (5.56%) Splunk
10 3 (3.33%) AlienVault
10 3 (3.33%) BigPanda
10 3 (3.33%) F5
10 3 (3.33%) Infoblox
11 2 (2.22%) SonicWALL