SolarWinds Orion Contract Job Trends in England

SolarWinds Orion
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SolarWinds Orion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 516 526
Rank change year-on-year -119 +10 +73
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds Orion 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.011% 0.004% 0.015%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.099% 0.025% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £386 £584 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £617 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.01% +23.40% -13.04%
75th Percentile £603 £651 £525
90th Percentile £672 - -
UK median daily rate £380 £617 £500
% change year-on-year -38.41% +23.40% -11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
England

SolarWinds Orion falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,036 3,960 3,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.92% 14.18% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 2,605 2,603
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £630
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 75 53
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.54 £20.17
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £34.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.06% -10.53% -27.62%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.58 £64.50
90th Percentile £89.59 £73.40 £74.89
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £25.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +153.92% -33.33% -31.82%

SolarWinds Orion
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SolarWinds Orion job vacancy trend in England

SolarWinds Orion
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SolarWinds Orion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SolarWinds Orion

SolarWinds Orion
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds Orion in England over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds Orion in England

SolarWinds Orion
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SolarWinds Orion.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SolarWinds Orion

SolarWinds Orion
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds Orion within the England region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
South West - 3 £695 -
Midlands -42 1 £475 -23.01%
London - 1 £320 -
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
SolarWinds Orion
UK

SolarWinds Orion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Datadog
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (20.00%) WMI
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk