SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

SolarWinds
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 23 June 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
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 62 59
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 3 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.27% 0.44% 1.49%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 1.03% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £433 £576 £473
25th Percentile £444 £588 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £618 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.92% +84.62%
75th Percentile £506 £638 £657
90th Percentile £518 £645 £659
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +14.44%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 485 292 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 43.77% 43.00% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 194 214
10th Percentile £199 £238 £188
25th Percentile £375 £323 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -10.42% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £600
90th Percentile £640 £629 £643
England median daily rate £505 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 25 28
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.81 £10.90
25th Percentile £13.54 £15.09 £12.60
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +34.79% -33.92%
75th Percentile £22.00 £25.11 £14.54
90th Percentile £74.00 £25.15 £26.50
England median hourly rate £34.23 £27.13 £24.14
% change year-on-year +26.19% +12.37% -35.63%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SolarWinds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SolarWinds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Lincolnshire - 1 £500 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 £475 - 1
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Line Management
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) People Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Firmware
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware