SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in England

SolarWinds
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 May 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
20 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 316 402
Rank change year-on-year -137 +86 +85
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 129 153 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.63% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.76% 1.32% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 106 94
10th Percentile £291 £311 £327
25th Percentile £355 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +0.94% +15.58%
75th Percentile £538 £615 £588
90th Percentile £600 £695 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £42.05 - -
25th Percentile £43.11 - -
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £23.80
75th Percentile £62.29 - -
90th Percentile £68.11 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.72 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -61.99%

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,879 11,567 15,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.05% 47.63% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,931 7,430 9,732
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.50% -3.32%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £634
90th Percentile £706 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 471 1,006
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.84 £12.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.36 £26.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% +16.98% -40.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £75.20 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.23 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +26.37% +15.91% -48.24%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in England

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SolarWinds in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 East -39 47 £500 -9.09% 8
London -91 21 £500 - 5
South West -31 19 £426 -19.81% 4
Midlands -75 19 £413 -29.28% 1
West Midlands -54 18 £359 -34.94%
North of England -74 18 £353 -25.40% 9
North West -43 15 £350 -17.65% 4
East of England -29 4 £363 -9.38%
Yorkshire -59 4 £519 +8.58% 3
East Midlands -37 1 £475 -26.95% 1
SolarWinds
UK

SolarWinds
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.10%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (3.10%) IIS
2 3 (2.33%) Apache
2 3 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (7.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.81%) Azure
2 22 (17.05%) AWS
3 9 (6.98%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.65%) SaaS
5 5 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (3.88%) Datadog
5 5 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.33%) GCP
7 3 (2.33%) PaaS
7 3 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.55%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.55%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.78%) GitHub
9 1 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.78%) IaaS
9 1 (0.78%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 64 (49.61%) Firewall
2 57 (44.19%) WAN
3 55 (42.64%) LAN
4 46 (35.66%) DNS
5 37 (28.68%) DHCP
6 33 (25.58%) BGP
6 33 (25.58%) OSPF
7 29 (22.48%) BIG-IP
8 27 (20.93%) Ethernet VPN
8 27 (20.93%) VPN
8 27 (20.93%) VXLAN
9 25 (19.38%) Junos
10 24 (18.60%) SNMP
11 21 (16.28%) Cisco ISE
11 21 (16.28%) Network Security
12 18 (13.95%) VLAN
13 13 (10.08%) SD-WAN
13 13 (10.08%) TCP/IP
14 10 (7.75%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (6.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.55%) JIRA
1 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.78%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.10%) Finance
4 4 (3.10%) Law
4 4 (3.10%) Military
5 3 (2.33%) Legal
5 3 (2.33%) Retail
6 2 (1.55%) Aviation
6 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (28.68%) Network Engineer
2 14 (10.85%) Consultant
2 14 (10.85%) Firewall Specialist
2 14 (10.85%) Network Specialist
2 14 (10.85%) Senior
3 12 (9.30%) Management Consultant
4 10 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (6.98%) Architect
5 9 (6.98%) Senior Network Engineer
6 6 (4.65%) Analyst
6 6 (4.65%) DBA
6 6 (4.65%) Server Engineer
6 6 (4.65%) SQL DBA
7 5 (3.88%) Network Architect
8 4 (3.10%) Administrator
8 4 (3.10%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
8 4 (3.10%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.10%) Network Manager
8 4 (3.10%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.93%) 802.1X
2 22 (17.05%) REST
3 5 (3.88%) LDAP
3 5 (3.88%) SAML
4 4 (3.10%) JSON
5 2 (1.55%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (31.01%) Data Centre
2 36 (27.91%) Clustering
3 26 (20.16%) PKI
4 7 (5.43%) Replication
5 4 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.10%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.33%) CMDB
6 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.55%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.78%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.78%) EMC VNX
8 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (51.94%) Windows
2 32 (24.81%) Linux
3 17 (13.18%) AIX
4 12 (9.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.55%) Unix
6 2 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.78%) VMS
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.91%) High Availability
2 30 (23.26%) Observability
3 28 (21.71%) ITIL
3 28 (21.71%) Load Balancing
3 28 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (18.60%) Identity Access Management
5 18 (13.95%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (12.40%) Network Monitoring
7 15 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (11.63%) ITSM
8 14 (10.85%) Dashboard Development
8 14 (10.85%) Project Delivery
9 12 (9.30%) Agile
9 12 (9.30%) Migration
9 12 (9.30%) Service Management
10 10 (7.75%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (6.98%) Availability Management
11 9 (6.98%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (6.20%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (24.81%) PowerShell
2 26 (20.16%) SQL
3 23 (17.83%) Python
4 17 (13.18%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (2.33%) Bash
6 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 72 (55.81%) Security Cleared
2 37 (28.68%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (24.03%) SC Cleared
4 28 (21.71%) DV Cleared
5 15 (11.63%) CCNP
6 11 (8.53%) JNCIS
7 10 (7.75%) CCNA
8 8 (6.20%) JNCIA
9 7 (5.43%) JNCIP
10 5 (3.88%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (2.33%) CCIE
12 2 (1.55%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.55%) Degree
12 2 (1.55%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.55%) PMP
13 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.33%) NCSC
1 3 (2.33%) QA
2 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) GRC
3 1 (0.78%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.78%) NIST
3 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (18.60%) Active Directory
2 21 (16.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.53%) vSphere
4 10 (7.75%) Hyper-V
5 9 (6.98%) VMware NSX
6 6 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.55%) Firmware
7 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.78%) Docker
8 1 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.78%) KVM
8 1 (0.78%) NFS
8 1 (0.78%) RHEV
8 1 (0.78%) SRDF
8 1 (0.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (25.58%) Nagios
2 26 (20.16%) FortiGate
3 17 (13.18%) ZABBIX
4 16 (12.40%) Ansible
4 16 (12.40%) Netcool
5 15 (11.63%) Tivoli
6 14 (10.85%) Terraform
7 13 (10.08%) OpenView
7 13 (10.08%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (4.65%) SCCM
8 6 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.88%) Cisco Prime
9 5 (3.88%) WMI
10 4 (3.10%) Pingdom
10 4 (3.10%) vRealize
11 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (2.33%) vCenter Server
11 3 (2.33%) VxRail
11 3 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 81 (62.79%) Cisco
2 49 (37.98%) Splunk
3 40 (31.01%) F5
4 39 (30.23%) Juniper
5 24 (18.60%) Palo Alto
6 23 (17.83%) Extreme Networks
6 23 (17.83%) VMware
7 19 (14.73%) BMC
7 19 (14.73%) Microsoft
8 18 (13.95%) HP
8 18 (13.95%) IBM
9 16 (12.40%) Fortinet
10 14 (10.85%) CheckPoint
10 14 (10.85%) ServiceNow
11 10 (7.75%) Meraki
12 8 (6.20%) Commvault
12 8 (6.20%) Veeam
13 6 (4.65%) AppDynamics
13 6 (4.65%) Aruba
13 6 (4.65%) RedGate
24 SolarWinds jobs in England