SolarWinds
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within SolarWinds.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 602 707
Rank change year-on-year -20 +105 -58
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 279 386 605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.76% 0.93% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 221 287 441
10th Percentile £37,188 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £76,250 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.94% -

All Vendors
UK

SolarWinds is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,517 41,380 63,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.18% 42.01% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 24,842 23,662 33,005
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +24 274 £57,500 +21.05% 76
UK excluding London -88 157 £50,000 +14.29% 56
London +118 117 £70,000 +16.67% 30
Work from Home -6 97 £62,500 +35.14% 28
North of England +7 64 £50,000 +11.11% 10
South West -1 50 £51,000 +22.89% 8
North West -34 29 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Yorkshire +86 28 £47,500 +5.56% 6
Midlands -42 21 £42,500 -10.53% 9
West Midlands -7 18 £42,000 -6.67% 5
South East -26 18 £50,024 +0.05% 21
East of England +7 7 £42,500 +21.43% 7
North East -10 7 £70,000 +86.67%
East Midlands -24 3 £55,000 +15.79% 4

SolarWinds
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 25 (8.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (7.17%) IIS
3 11 (3.94%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.87%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.08%) Apache
5 3 (1.08%) GlassFish
5 3 (1.08%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (10.75%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.23%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.72%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 147 (52.69%) Azure
2 60 (21.51%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (21.15%) AWS
4 22 (7.89%) Entra ID
5 21 (7.53%) Cloud Computing
6 18 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (6.09%) GCP
7 17 (6.09%) IaaS
7 17 (6.09%) Rubrik
8 14 (5.02%) Datadog
8 14 (5.02%) SaaS
9 10 (3.58%) PaaS
10 7 (2.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (2.51%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (2.51%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.15%) Azure Stack
11 6 (2.15%) Nutanix
12 5 (1.79%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 97 (34.77%) Firewall
2 96 (34.41%) WAN
3 76 (27.24%) LAN
4 70 (25.09%) DNS
5 69 (24.73%) Network Security
6 63 (22.58%) DHCP
7 59 (21.15%) VPN
8 54 (19.35%) SD-WAN
9 51 (18.28%) Wireless
10 37 (13.26%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (12.90%) BGP
12 35 (12.54%) MPLS
12 35 (12.54%) TCP/IP
13 29 (10.39%) Cisco Nexus
14 28 (10.04%) OSPF
14 28 (10.04%) VLAN
15 27 (9.68%) WLAN
16 26 (9.32%) SAN
17 21 (7.53%) iSCSI
18 19 (6.81%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.51%) MySQL
3 5 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.79%) Redis
4 4 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.51%) JIRA
2 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.08%) Git
2 3 (1.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (20.07%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.98%) Finance
3 24 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.81%) Law
5 15 (5.38%) Military
6 9 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.15%) Legal
9 4 (1.43%) Agriculture
9 4 (1.43%) Police
9 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.08%) Back Office
10 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Local Government
11 2 (0.72%) Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Games
11 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 91 (32.62%) Network Engineer
2 62 (22.22%) Senior
3 42 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (12.54%) Senior Network Engineer
5 30 (10.75%) Analyst
5 30 (10.75%) Consultant
6 26 (9.32%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 26 (9.32%) Security Consultant
6 26 (9.32%) Support Engineer
7 22 (7.89%) Lead
8 21 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (5.73%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (5.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 15 (5.38%) Storage Engineer
11 14 (5.02%) Backup Engineer
11 14 (5.02%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (5.02%) Storage and Backup Engineer
12 13 (4.66%) Infrastructure Manager
12 13 (4.66%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
13 12 (4.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.32%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (3.23%) 802.1X
3 8 (2.87%) JSON
4 7 (2.51%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.79%) .NET
5 5 (1.79%) Middleware
6 4 (1.43%) SAML
7 3 (1.08%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.08%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.08%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (1.08%) LDAP
8 1 (0.36%) OAuth
8 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.49%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 16 (5.73%) EMC VNX
3 16 (5.73%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.38%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (5.38%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (4.66%) PKI
5 13 (4.66%) Replication
6 12 (4.30%) PMI
6 12 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.15%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 110 (39.43%) Windows
2 62 (22.22%) Linux
3 58 (20.79%) Windows Server
4 28 (10.04%) Windows 10
5 24 (8.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (4.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (3.58%) Unix
8 6 (2.15%) Android
9 5 (1.79%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.79%) Windows 8
10 4 (1.43%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.08%) AIX
11 3 (1.08%) CentOS
11 3 (1.08%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.08%) Rocky
11 3 (1.08%) Solaris
12 2 (0.72%) SUSE
12 2 (0.72%) VMS
12 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (24.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 55 (19.71%) ITIL
3 51 (18.28%) Agile
4 42 (15.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 41 (14.70%) Cybersecurity
5 41 (14.70%) Network Management
6 38 (13.62%) Incident Management
7 36 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
8 35 (12.54%) SIEM
9 34 (12.19%) Project Management
10 30 (10.75%) Mentoring
11 29 (10.39%) Analytics
12 28 (10.04%) Information Security
12 28 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (9.68%) DevOps
13 27 (9.68%) Vulnerability Management
14 26 (9.32%) Data Analytics
15 25 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (8.24%) Roadmaps
17 22 (7.89%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 32 (11.47%) PowerShell
2 21 (7.53%) SQL
3 8 (2.87%) Java
4 7 (2.51%) Python
5 5 (1.79%) Bash
6 3 (1.08%) C#
Qualifications
1 56 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.20%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (11.11%) CCNP
4 28 (10.04%) DV Cleared
5 23 (8.24%) CCNA
5 23 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (8.24%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.66%) Degree
7 12 (4.30%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.87%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.79%) CISSP
10 5 (1.79%) MCSA
11 4 (1.43%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.43%) MCSE
12 3 (1.08%) CCIE
13 2 (0.72%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 2 (0.72%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.32%) NIST
2 19 (6.81%) SLA
3 8 (2.87%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.15%) QA
5 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 5 (1.79%) NCSC
6 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 100 (35.84%) Active Directory
2 56 (20.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (12.19%) vSphere
4 31 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (9.32%) Hyper-V
6 9 (3.23%) Docker
7 7 (2.51%) Firmware
8 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.36%) vCloud
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (10.04%) vCenter Server
2 26 (9.32%) ZABBIX
3 21 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (7.53%) Nagios
4 20 (7.17%) SCOM
5 19 (6.81%) SCCM
6 16 (5.73%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (5.38%) Kubernetes
8 14 (5.02%) VxRail
9 13 (4.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 13 (4.66%) Terraform
10 12 (4.30%) Opsgenie
11 11 (3.94%) Ansible
12 8 (2.87%) Grafana
12 8 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (2.51%) FortiGate
13 7 (2.51%) SolarWinds Orion
14 6 (2.15%) Icinga
15 5 (1.79%) Pingdom
15 5 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 131 (46.95%) Cisco
2 104 (37.28%) Microsoft
3 90 (32.26%) VMware
4 41 (14.70%) Palo Alto
5 40 (14.34%) NetApp
5 40 (14.34%) Veeam
6 38 (13.62%) Citrix
6 38 (13.62%) Fortinet
7 35 (12.54%) Meraki
8 30 (10.75%) Aruba
9 26 (9.32%) Tanium
9 26 (9.32%) Tripwire
10 25 (8.96%) HP
11 24 (8.60%) Dell
12 22 (7.89%) LogicMonitor
13 21 (7.53%) CheckPoint
14 20 (7.17%) Juniper
15 18 (6.45%) EMC
16 13 (4.66%) F5
16 13 (4.66%) Oracle