SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SolarWinds
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.58% 0.11% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.33% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £585 £610 £550
% change year-on-year -4.10% +10.91% +29.41%

All Vendors
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 301 414 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 43.81% 45.25% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 222 241
10th Percentile £233 £228 £325
25th Percentile £352 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £584 £622 £650
90th Percentile £653 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 87 23
10th Percentile £6.00 £46.90 £15.05
25th Percentile £18.36 £65.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £58.45 - £80.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £75.00 £83.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -73.04% +23.92% +7.49%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in Bristol

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) HSRP
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) Skype
1 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) VRRP
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (50.00%) MCSE
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam
2 2 (50.00%) VMware