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 30 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
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 128 136
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +54
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 2 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.099% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.40% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £510 £505 £423
25th Percentile £511 £512 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £549 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% +15.47% -10.59%
75th Percentile £536 £599 £540
90th Percentile £537 £615 £629
London median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +4.85%

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 985 992 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.71% 43.22% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 629 810
10th Percentile £325 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £450 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.09% -2.05%
75th Percentile £670 £656 £675
90th Percentile £743 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 8
10th Percentile £18.96 £18.50 £15.58
25th Percentile £20.08 £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 £41.80 £112.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £46.94 £137.50 £57.38
London median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.21% -12.00% +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 30 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 -4 2 £523 -4.74% 5
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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Junos
1 1 (50.00%) NX-OS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor