SolarWinds Contracts in the North West

SolarWinds
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SolarWinds.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 140 153
Rank change year-on-year +29 +13 -21
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 27 15 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.01% 0.48% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 2.57% 1.18% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 15
10th Percentile £435 £213 £230
25th Percentile £459 £304 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £350 £325
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% +7.69% -22.62%
75th Percentile £543 £450 £453
90th Percentile £550 £472 £483
England median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +26.67%

All Vendors
North West

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,051 1,275 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 39.25% 41.05% 36.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 836 971
10th Percentile £269 £275 £185
25th Percentile £394 £379 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% +2.08% +12.05%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £680 £650 £650
England median daily rate £518 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -3.18% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 60 109
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.14 £10.57
25th Percentile £12.00 £21.86 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% +78.57% -16.00%
75th Percentile £26.39 £47.25 £52.70
90th Percentile £46.18 £53.02 £77.50
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.50 £21.39
% change year-on-year -41.56% +79.99% +1.86%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the North West

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the North West.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the North West

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the North West

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the North West

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Cumbria -12 14 £514 +14.17%
Cheshire +14 7 £563 +60.71%
Manchester +19 6 £444 +44.31% 2
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) IaaS
3 3 (11.11%) PaaS
3 3 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (70.37%) BGP
1 19 (70.37%) OSPF
2 14 (51.85%) Firewall
3 13 (48.15%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (48.15%) Cisco Firepower
3 13 (48.15%) Cisco ISE
3 13 (48.15%) EIGRP
3 13 (48.15%) HSRP
3 13 (48.15%) IPsec
3 13 (48.15%) NetScaler
4 12 (44.44%) SNMP
4 12 (44.44%) Spanning Tree
4 12 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
6 4 (14.81%) MPLS
6 4 (14.81%) Value-Added Service
6 4 (14.81%) VLAN
6 4 (14.81%) VPN
6 4 (14.81%) Wireless
6 4 (14.81%) Wireshark
General
1 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Network Engineer
2 12 (44.44%) Senior
3 11 (40.74%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Technologist
7 1 (3.70%) Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) IT Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) CMDB
1 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Change Management
2 14 (51.85%) ITIL
3 13 (48.15%) Network Management
4 12 (44.44%) DevOps
4 12 (44.44%) ITSM
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
7 4 (14.81%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (7.41%) SOAR
10 1 (3.70%) Capacity Planning
10 1 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 1 (3.70%) Performance Analysis
10 1 (3.70%) Problem Management
10 1 (3.70%) Security Testing
10 1 (3.70%) Server Building
10 1 (3.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) Perl
2 12 (44.44%) Tcl
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (70.37%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (66.67%) CCNP
3 15 (55.56%) CCNA
3 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 14 (51.85%) SC Cleared
5 5 (18.52%) Degree
6 4 (14.81%) CCIE
6 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (14.81%) VCAP
7 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.70%) CISSP
7 1 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Firmware
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Nagios
2 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.70%) WSUS
2 1 (3.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (70.37%) Cisco
2 14 (51.85%) Palo Alto
3 13 (48.15%) Citrix
4 4 (14.81%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (7.41%) Meraki
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.41%) Rapid7
5 2 (7.41%) Sophos
5 2 (7.41%) VMware
6 1 (3.70%) Aruba
6 1 (3.70%) Symantec
6 1 (3.70%) Veeam