SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in Coventry

SolarWinds
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 3 November 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
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 6.98% - 1.52%
As % of the Vendors category 11.65% - 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £301 - £424
25th Percentile £306 - £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £426 - £500
90th Percentile £475 - £515
West Midlands median daily rate £448 £491 £438
% change year-on-year -8.91% +12.29% +9.38%

All Vendors
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 103 29 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 59.88% 31.87% 54.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 16 77
10th Percentile £223 £259 £230
25th Percentile £290 £315 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £538
90th Percentile £619 £644 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +1.40% +8.11% -6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £20.60
25th Percentile £24.35 - £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 - £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +88.00%
75th Percentile - - £26.00
90th Percentile - - £27.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £28.81 £23.00
% change year-on-year +4.12% +25.27% +39.39%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in Coventry

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in Coventry over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in Coventry

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Datadog
3 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (41.67%) VSAN
3 4 (33.33%) BIG-IP
4 3 (25.00%) Network Security
5 2 (16.67%) BGP
5 2 (16.67%) DHCP
5 2 (16.67%) DNS
5 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
5 2 (16.67%) IPv4
5 2 (16.67%) IPv6
5 2 (16.67%) LAN
5 2 (16.67%) MPLS
5 2 (16.67%) OSPF
5 2 (16.67%) VLAN
5 2 (16.67%) VPN
5 2 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (16.67%) Wireless
5 2 (16.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Network Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Storage Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
3 5 (41.67%) Load Balancing
4 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Network Design
6 2 (16.67%) Network Management
6 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
6 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CCIE
2 2 (16.67%) CCIE Security
2 2 (16.67%) CCNP
2 2 (16.67%) CCSP
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) JNCIE
3 1 (8.33%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (41.67%) vSphere
3 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 5 (41.67%) vRealize
2 5 (41.67%) VxRail
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 6 (50.00%) AppDynamics
3 6 (50.00%) Commvault
3 6 (50.00%) F5
3 6 (50.00%) IBM
3 6 (50.00%) Palo Alto
4 5 (41.67%) Dell
5 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
5 4 (33.33%) HP
5 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
6 2 (16.67%) Meraki
7 1 (8.33%) Forcepoint
7 1 (8.33%) Juniper
7 1 (8.33%) Microsoft