SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SolarWinds
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 121 152
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +39
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 5 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.43% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 0.97% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £469 - £425
25th Percentile £538 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -6.10% +1.43%
75th Percentile £700 £528 £548
90th Percentile - £534 £619
Central London median daily rate £575 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +31.25%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 864 927 1,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.01% 44.18% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 605 856
10th Percentile £324 £350 £311
25th Percentile £413 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £743 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 8
10th Percentile £20.23 £16.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £23.75 £19.50 £16.90
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% +30.12% -1.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £65.21 £137.50 £60.35
Central London median hourly rate £31.58 £27.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +16.94% +30.12% -12.34%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the City of London

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SolarWinds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the City of London

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SolarWinds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Datadog
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) BGP
1 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) MPLS
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (20.00%) IGMP
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) WAN Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Control
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) Time Management
1 2 (40.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Fintech
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) JNCIS
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto