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 18 October 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
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 126 146
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 +49
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 4 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.21% 0.38% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 0.88% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £457 - £375
25th Percentile £509 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £528 £539
90th Percentile - £534 £599
London median daily rate £475 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.53% -4.33%

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 920 1,022 1,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.86% 43.60% 42.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 659 903
10th Percentile £325 £313 £275
25th Percentile £419 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £681
90th Percentile £757 £738 £788
London median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 10
10th Percentile £18.87 £19.10 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £50.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.00% +140.96% -1.19%
75th Percentile £54.46 £112.00 £51.56
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £55.45
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £40.25
% change year-on-year -28.65% -12.42% +61.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in Central London over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in Central London

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 18 October 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 -5 4 £638 +27.50% 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (25.00%) IGMP
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) WAN Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Network Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
1 2 (50.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) JNCIS
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto