SolarWinds Contracts in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 350 393
Rank change year-on-year +69 +43 -54
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 104 106 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 1.19% 1.01% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 75 70
10th Percentile £357 £203 £278
25th Percentile £450 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £438 £414
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% +5.74% +18.21%
75th Percentile £634 £519 £488
90th Percentile £650 £583 £525
UK median daily rate £515 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +14.49% -5.26% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 9
10th Percentile - £56.68 £19.56
25th Percentile - £62.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate - £62.62 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - +40.71% +112.41%
75th Percentile - £63.23 £50.77
90th Percentile - £69.61 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year -61.99% +40.71% +78.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,767 10,454 12,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.72% 44.48% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,256 7,184 8,264
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 961 479 634
10th Percentile £11.80 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.61 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%
75th Percentile £59.92 £62.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.05 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +43 50 £531 +30.77% 3
North of England +30 29 £515 +17.05% 4
North West +41 27 £514 +58.08% 1
South West +4 9 £535 -2.73% 6
Scotland +44 8 £435 -13.00% 2
Midlands +24 7 £600 +84.62% 2
East Midlands +21 7 £600 +84.62% 1
Yorkshire +11 2 £650 +47.73% 3
East of England +2 1 £350 -42.86% 4
SolarWinds
UK

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.92%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.42%) Azure
2 14 (13.46%) AWS
3 10 (9.62%) GitHub
4 4 (3.85%) GCP
4 4 (3.85%) IaaS
4 4 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.88%) PaaS
5 3 (2.88%) SaaS
6 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.92%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 62 (59.62%) Firewall
2 23 (22.12%) Cisco ISE
3 22 (21.15%) BGP
3 22 (21.15%) Cisco ASA
4 21 (20.19%) OSPF
5 17 (16.35%) NetScaler
6 15 (14.42%) Cisco Firepower
6 15 (14.42%) DNS
7 14 (13.46%) EIGRP
7 14 (13.46%) IPsec
7 14 (13.46%) LAN
7 14 (13.46%) SNMP
7 14 (13.46%) WAN
7 14 (13.46%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (12.50%) HSRP
8 13 (12.50%) VPN
9 12 (11.54%) DHCP
9 12 (11.54%) Spanning Tree
10 11 (10.58%) Cisco Nexus
10 11 (10.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.92%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.96%) MySQL
4 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) GitLab
2 3 (2.88%) Git
3 2 (1.92%) Subversion
4 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 17 (16.35%) Public Sector
2 8 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (7.69%) Finance
3 7 (6.73%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.77%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.85%) Electronics
5 4 (3.85%) Legal
5 4 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.85%) Marketing
6 2 (1.92%) Law
6 2 (1.92%) Military
7 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (58.65%) Network Engineer
2 18 (17.31%) Senior
3 13 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (7.69%) Database Specialist
4 8 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Platform Specialist
6 5 (4.81%) Architect
6 5 (4.81%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Network Architect
8 3 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Wintel Engineer
9 2 (1.92%) Analyst
9 2 (1.92%) Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (1.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.54%) Jinja
2 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.58%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.65%) Clustering
2 9 (8.65%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (7.69%) Replication
4 5 (4.81%) PKI
5 4 (3.85%) NHS
6 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.92%) CMDB
7 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.96%) CCTV
8 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.96%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.31%) Linux
2 15 (14.42%) Windows
3 8 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.81%) Unix
5 5 (4.81%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.85%) Solaris
7 2 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.92%) VMS
7 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.96%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (22.12%) ITIL
2 22 (21.15%) Change Management
3 20 (19.23%) Network Architecture
4 16 (15.38%) High Availability
4 16 (15.38%) ITSM
5 15 (14.42%) Network Management
6 14 (13.46%) Capacity Management
6 14 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (11.54%) DevOps
7 12 (11.54%) Migration
7 12 (11.54%) Network Monitoring
7 12 (11.54%) Task Automation
8 11 (10.58%) Data Migration
8 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (10.58%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.69%) Database Security
10 8 (7.69%) Mentoring
10 8 (7.69%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.27%) Python
2 14 (13.46%) Perl
3 13 (12.50%) Bash
4 12 (11.54%) Tcl
5 10 (9.62%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.73%) SQL
7 2 (1.92%) VBScript
8 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (44.23%) Security Cleared
2 44 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 36 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (25.00%) CCNP
5 24 (23.08%) CCNA
6 12 (11.54%) Degree
7 7 (6.73%) CCIE
8 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.85%) VCAP
10 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.92%) MCSE
10 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.96%) CISSP
11 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.96%) MCP
11 1 (0.96%) MCSA
11 1 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (1.92%) GDPR
1 2 (1.92%) SLA
2 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.96%) NIST
2 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (16.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (13.46%) Active Directory
3 13 (12.50%) Firmware
3 13 (12.50%) vSphere
4 4 (3.85%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (2.88%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.88%) XenApp
6 2 (1.92%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (27.88%) Ansible
2 12 (11.54%) Terraform
3 7 (6.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 7 (6.73%) SCCM
4 5 (4.81%) WSUS
5 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (2.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.88%) Nagios
6 3 (2.88%) SCOM
6 3 (2.88%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.88%) VxRail
7 2 (1.92%) OpenView
7 2 (1.92%) OPNET
7 2 (1.92%) SELinux
7 2 (1.92%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (1.92%) vRealize
8 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.96%) Puppet
8 1 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (42.31%) Cisco
2 27 (25.96%) F5
3 24 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 23 (22.12%) VMware
5 19 (18.27%) Citrix
6 13 (12.50%) Red Hat
7 9 (8.65%) Meraki
7 9 (8.65%) Microsoft
8 8 (7.69%) Fortinet
8 8 (7.69%) Oracle
9 7 (6.73%) CheckPoint
10 6 (5.77%) Dell
10 6 (5.77%) Juniper
11 5 (4.81%) Symantec
12 4 (3.85%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (3.85%) SAP
12 4 (3.85%) Veeam
13 3 (2.88%) Veritas
14 2 (1.92%) Remedy
14 2 (1.92%) Sophos