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 19 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
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 361 445
Rank change year-on-year -40 +84 +143
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 137 145 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.47% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.95% 1.04% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 87 95
10th Percentile £335 £308 £321
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -6.60% +9.47%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £613
90th Percentile £625 £708 £708
UK median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile £58.15 - £34.20
25th Percentile £61.00 - £57.37
Median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +179.41% -63.93% +15.75%
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £30.90 £65.98
% change year-on-year +115.21% -53.17% +15.75%

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 14,454 13,909 17,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.56% 45.11% 44.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,299 8,356 11,614
10th Percentile £286 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 728 430 621
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% -22.22% +73.08%
75th Percentile £45.20 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.75% -32.12% +73.08%

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 19 November 2025.

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
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 19 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
South East +3 40 £500 +17.65% 30
London +5 29 £500 -2.44% 27
West Midlands -11 26 £429 -12.72% 7
Midlands -33 26 £429 -18.33% 9
North of England -55 20 £475 - 3
South West +5 16 £550 +32.13% 7
Yorkshire -32 12 £482 +114.33% 1
North West -49 8 £475 - 1
East of England -17 3 £363 -37.23% 2
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 12 (8.76%) Confluence
2 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (7.30%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.38%) Skype for Business
4 4 (2.92%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.46%) Apache
5 2 (1.46%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.63%) Azure
2 25 (18.25%) AWS
3 10 (7.30%) Datadog
4 7 (5.11%) Akamai
5 6 (4.38%) GCP
6 5 (3.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.92%) SaaS
8 3 (2.19%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (2.19%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.46%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.46%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.73%) IaaS
10 1 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (42.34%) Firewall
2 49 (35.77%) Cisco ISE
3 33 (24.09%) DNS
4 31 (22.63%) BGP
5 29 (21.17%) WAN
6 28 (20.44%) OSPF
7 26 (18.98%) Cisco IOS
7 26 (18.98%) VLAN
8 25 (18.25%) Cisco Firepower
9 24 (17.52%) Network Security
10 23 (16.79%) DHCP
10 23 (16.79%) SD-WAN
10 23 (16.79%) Wireless
11 21 (15.33%) Junos
12 20 (14.60%) VPN
13 19 (13.87%) LAN
14 18 (13.14%) Cisco Nexus
15 17 (12.41%) TCP/IP
16 15 (10.95%) Wireshark
17 14 (10.22%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (8.76%) JIRA
2 5 (3.65%) Git
3 4 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.19%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 35 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.90%) Public Sector
3 20 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.84%) Finance
5 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.19%) Banking
6 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Law
7 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.73%) Advertising
8 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.73%) French Language
8 1 (0.73%) Legal
8 1 (0.73%) Police
Job Titles
1 68 (49.64%) Network Engineer
2 25 (18.25%) Support Engineer
3 21 (15.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 20 (14.60%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 20 (14.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (14.60%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 19 (13.87%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 17 (12.41%) Network Support
6 17 (12.41%) Network Support Engineer
7 16 (11.68%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (11.68%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 15 (10.95%) Analyst
9 14 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (7.30%) Security Engineer
11 9 (6.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 9 (6.57%) Wintel Engineer
12 8 (5.84%) Network Security Engineer
12 8 (5.84%) Senior
13 7 (5.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 7 (5.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.46%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.73%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.06%) Data Centre
2 13 (9.49%) PKI
3 10 (7.30%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.65%) Replication
5 4 (2.92%) Clustering
6 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.19%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.73%) CMDB
8 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 46 (33.58%) Windows
2 30 (21.90%) Windows Server
3 22 (16.06%) Linux
4 6 (4.38%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.92%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (2.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.19%) Unix
7 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.73%) Solaris
7 1 (0.73%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (23.36%) Service Management
2 29 (21.17%) ITSM
3 21 (15.33%) Agile
4 20 (14.60%) ITIL
5 19 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (12.41%) Network Monitoring
8 11 (8.03%) High Availability
9 10 (7.30%) Performance Monitoring
10 9 (6.57%) Change Management
10 9 (6.57%) Mentoring
10 9 (6.57%) Network Design
10 9 (6.57%) Project Delivery
11 8 (5.84%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.84%) Critical Thinking
11 8 (5.84%) Load Balancing
11 8 (5.84%) Migration
11 8 (5.84%) Network Segmentation
11 8 (5.84%) Network Virtualisation
11 8 (5.84%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.06%) PowerShell
2 20 (14.60%) Python
3 8 (5.84%) Bash
4 7 (5.11%) Perl
4 7 (5.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (53.28%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.55%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (24.82%) DV Cleared
4 31 (22.63%) SC Cleared
5 29 (21.17%) CCNP
6 14 (10.22%) CCNA
6 14 (10.22%) Degree
7 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (5.84%) MCSE
9 7 (5.11%) CCIE
10 6 (4.38%) CCSA
10 6 (4.38%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (3.65%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.92%) CISSP
13 3 (2.19%) CCDP
13 3 (2.19%) CCSP
13 3 (2.19%) MCSA
13 3 (2.19%) OCA
13 3 (2.19%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (2.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) GDPR
1 6 (4.38%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.92%) NIST
3 2 (1.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.73%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.73%) QA
4 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (24.09%) Active Directory
1 33 (24.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (22.63%) VMware NSX
3 13 (9.49%) vSphere
4 7 (5.11%) Firmware
4 7 (5.11%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.11%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.73%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (20.44%) vCenter Server
2 25 (18.25%) Ansible
3 14 (10.22%) SCCM
4 9 (6.57%) FortiGate
4 9 (6.57%) Terraform
4 9 (6.57%) vRealize
4 9 (6.57%) VxRail
4 9 (6.57%) WSUS
5 7 (5.11%) SCOM
6 5 (3.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.92%) CA Spectrum
8 3 (2.19%) Iperf
8 3 (2.19%) Nagios
8 3 (2.19%) Nmap
8 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.19%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.46%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.46%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (1.46%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 107 (78.10%) Cisco
2 40 (29.20%) VMware
3 39 (28.47%) Juniper
4 35 (25.55%) F5
5 28 (20.44%) Fortinet
6 25 (18.25%) Palo Alto
7 23 (16.79%) Veeam
8 22 (16.06%) Microsoft
9 21 (15.33%) CheckPoint
10 15 (10.95%) Meraki
11 14 (10.22%) Dell
11 14 (10.22%) LogicMonitor
12 11 (8.03%) Commvault
13 10 (7.30%) AppDynamics
13 10 (7.30%) IBM
14 8 (5.84%) HP
15 7 (5.11%) ServiceNow
15 7 (5.11%) Splunk
16 5 (3.65%) Oracle
17 4 (2.92%) NetApp