SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

SolarWinds
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 4 August 2026, 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
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 3 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 1.06% 2.47% 5.83%
As % of the Vendors category 2.27% 5.00% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile £413 - £463
25th Percentile £413 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £300 £515
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% -41.75% +14.44%
75th Percentile £446 - £515
90th Percentile £447 - £519
North West median daily rate £430 £450 £515
% change year-on-year -4.44% -12.62% +14.44%

All Vendors
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 132 80 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 46.48% 49.38% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 33 22
10th Percentile £360 £270 £276
25th Percentile £418 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £450 £512
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -12.07% +13.72%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £518
90th Percentile £700 £634 £595
North West median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 30
10th Percentile £16.29 £26.08 -
25th Percentile £21.08 £27.14 -
Median hourly rate £29.05 £29.27 £10.95
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% +167.31% -80.39%
75th Percentile £37.03 £43.39 £11.32
90th Percentile £41.81 £52.50 £50.58
North West median hourly rate £29.96 £28.43 £16.06
% change year-on-year +5.38% +77.02% -45.19%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in Cumbria

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. 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
Barrow-in-Furness -6 3 £430 +43.33% 2
SolarWinds
North West

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (66.67%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Database Security
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) RedGate