SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in the East of England

SolarWinds
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 16 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
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 84 104
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 +27
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 1 2 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.067% 0.16% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.35% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - £518 £440
25th Percentile - £526 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.74% +5.00% +37.50%
75th Percentile - £656 £850
90th Percentile - £679 £869
England median daily rate £500 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +7.30% -6.80% +9.89%

All Vendors
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 696 574 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 46.40% 44.67% 42.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 230 460
10th Percentile £188 £247 £200
25th Percentile £400 £330 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile £591 £586 £600
90th Percentile £688 £696 £719
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 126 101
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.45 £15.62 £15.33
Median hourly rate £20.69 £16.23 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.48% -63.53% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.57% -21.79% +73.92%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in the East of England

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
Hertfordshire - 1 £400 - 2
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Network Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Huawei