SolarWinds Contracts in Berkshire

SolarWinds
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SolarWinds over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 110 111
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SolarWinds 2 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.17% 0.23% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% 0.45% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £340 £241
25th Percentile - £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +2.86% +8.29%
75th Percentile - £550 £464
90th Percentile - £610 £501
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £431
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.94% +5.83%

All Vendors
Berkshire

SolarWinds falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 676 880 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 57.43% 51.28% 52.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 480 567
10th Percentile £350 £313 £299
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £616 £651 £628
90th Percentile £700 £738 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 38 30
10th Percentile £14.48 £14.50 £18.33
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.72 £47.73
Median hourly rate £20.75 £58.49 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -64.52% -1.49% +23.06%
75th Percentile £32.31 £61.60 £66.38
90th Percentile £44.76 £74.98 £72.62
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £57.35 £48.40
% change year-on-year -67.10% +18.49% +142.00%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in Berkshire

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SolarWinds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SolarWinds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +22 1 £325 -27.78% 2
SolarWinds
South East

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) RIP
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Support
2 1 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) FireEye
2 1 (50.00%) Tanium