SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in Central London

SolarWinds
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 22 December 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
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 125 135
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +58
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% 0.40% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £440 £505 £423
25th Percentile £466 £512 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £549 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% +15.47% -9.52%
75th Percentile £534 £599 £540
90th Percentile £536 £615 £629
London median daily rate £500 £524 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -4.68% +10.00%

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 985 1,007 1,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 49.05% 43.27% 43.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 641 842
10th Percentile £325 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £669 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 8
10th Percentile £19.05 £18.50 £15.58
25th Percentile £20.18 £33.07 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £57.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.70% +202.63% -7.32%
75th Percentile £41.94 £112.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £54.90 £137.50 £57.38
London median hourly rate £25.47 £34.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -26.17% -8.00% +45.86%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SolarWinds relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in Central London

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SolarWinds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SolarWinds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -8 3 £520 -5.20% 3
SolarWinds
London

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) IGMP
1 1 (33.33%) Junos
1 1 (33.33%) Multicast
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (33.33%) Arista
2 1 (33.33%) Broadcom
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto