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 29 January 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
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 325 416
Rank change year-on-year -101 +91 +145
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 134 164 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.62% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 1.33% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 111 96
10th Percentile £308 £360 £325
25th Percentile £383 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +12.57%
75th Percentile £536 £650 £641
90th Percentile £588 £715 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile - - £31.93
25th Percentile £65.75 - £60.37
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £65.98
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - £66.13
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £38.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +75.00% -42.41% +4.35%

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 15,159 12,302 16,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.13% 46.24% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,947 7,395 10,497
10th Percentile £300 £286 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £712 £716 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 356 790
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £16.17
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -7.18% -0.55%
75th Percentile £50.26 £64.26 £59.82
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £32.06
% change year-on-year -13.36% -14.22% +3.41%

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 29 January 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
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 29 January 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 -18 40 £500 +14.29% 13
London -26 26 £500 - 13
West Midlands -33 26 £314 -42.97% 4
Midlands -69 26 £314 -46.28% 4
North of England -85 18 £335 -29.29% 1
South West -16 17 £550 +32.13% 1
North West -46 16 £335 -29.10% 1
East of England -8 6 £363 -37.23% 3
Yorkshire -52 2 £238 +5.56%
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 11 (8.21%) Confluence
1 11 (8.21%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (8.21%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.48%) IIS
2 6 (4.48%) Skype for Business
3 5 (3.73%) Apache
4 4 (2.99%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (2.99%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (9.70%) MS Visio
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.09%) Azure
2 30 (22.39%) AWS
3 14 (10.45%) Datadog
4 9 (6.72%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.22%) GCP
6 5 (3.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (3.73%) Nutanix
6 5 (3.73%) SaaS
7 4 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.24%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.24%) PaaS
9 2 (1.49%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (0.75%) Akamai
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (34.33%) Firewall
2 31 (23.13%) DNS
3 27 (20.15%) Cisco ISE
4 25 (18.66%) Cisco IOS
4 25 (18.66%) LAN
4 25 (18.66%) WAN
5 24 (17.91%) VPN
6 22 (16.42%) Cisco Firepower
6 22 (16.42%) Junos
6 22 (16.42%) Network Security
6 22 (16.42%) VLAN
7 21 (15.67%) TCP/IP
8 19 (14.18%) DHCP
9 17 (12.69%) BGP
10 15 (11.19%) OSPF
11 13 (9.70%) MPLS
11 13 (9.70%) SD-WAN
12 12 (8.96%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (8.96%) VSAN
12 12 (8.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.73%) JIRA
2 4 (2.99%) Git
2 4 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.24%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 38 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.15%) Public Sector
3 24 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.97%) Finance
5 5 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.24%) Law
7 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.49%) Legal
8 2 (1.49%) Retail
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.75%) Aviation
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) French Language
9 1 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 56 (41.79%) Network Engineer
2 22 (16.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 21 (15.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 21 (15.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (15.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 21 (15.67%) Support Engineer
4 19 (14.18%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 18 (13.43%) Network Support
5 18 (13.43%) Network Support Engineer
6 17 (12.69%) Analyst
7 16 (11.94%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (11.94%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 13 (9.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 10 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Senior
9 10 (7.46%) Server Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Architect
11 5 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Switch Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.73%) REST
2 4 (2.99%) JSON
3 2 (1.49%) LDAP
3 2 (1.49%) Middleware
3 2 (1.49%) SAML
4 1 (0.75%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.19%) Data Centre
1 15 (11.19%) PKI
2 14 (10.45%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (7.46%) Clustering
4 5 (3.73%) Replication
4 5 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.99%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.24%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.49%) CMDB
7 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.49%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.49%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 50 (37.31%) Windows
2 37 (27.61%) Windows Server
3 27 (20.15%) Linux
4 6 (4.48%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.99%) Unix
7 2 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.75%) Solaris
8 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.63%) Service Management
2 27 (20.15%) ITSM
3 24 (17.91%) Agile
4 20 (14.93%) ITIL
4 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (12.69%) Network Monitoring
6 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (8.96%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (8.21%) Change Management
8 11 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (8.21%) Network Design
9 10 (7.46%) Project Delivery
10 9 (6.72%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (6.72%) Mentoring
10 9 (6.72%) Network Virtualisation
10 9 (6.72%) Roadmaps
11 8 (5.97%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (5.97%) Decision-Making
11 8 (5.97%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.42%) PowerShell
2 16 (11.94%) Python
3 9 (6.72%) SQL
4 8 (5.97%) Bash
5 6 (4.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 65 (48.51%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.39%) DV Cleared
3 29 (21.64%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (20.90%) SC Cleared
5 26 (19.40%) CCNP
6 17 (12.69%) CCNA
7 13 (9.70%) Degree
8 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (5.97%) MCSE
10 6 (4.48%) CCIE
10 6 (4.48%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (3.73%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.99%) CISSP
12 4 (2.99%) JNCIS
13 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
13 3 (2.24%) CCSP
13 3 (2.24%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (2.24%) OCA
13 3 (2.24%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (2.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.73%) GDPR
3 4 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.99%) NIST
4 3 (2.24%) QA
5 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.75%) GRC
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.75%) NCSC
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (33.58%) Active Directory
2 41 (30.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (26.12%) VMware NSX
4 16 (11.94%) vSphere
5 12 (8.96%) Hyper-V
6 6 (4.48%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (3.73%) Firmware
7 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.75%) KVM
8 1 (0.75%) RHEV
8 1 (0.75%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (21.64%) vCenter Server
2 25 (18.66%) Ansible
3 18 (13.43%) Terraform
4 14 (10.45%) Nagios
5 13 (9.70%) vRealize
6 12 (8.96%) SCCM
6 12 (8.96%) VxRail
7 9 (6.72%) WSUS
8 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (3.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (2.99%) Cisco Prime
10 4 (2.99%) Iperf
10 4 (2.99%) Nmap
10 4 (2.99%) Pingdom
11 3 (2.24%) FortiGate
11 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (2.24%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.49%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.75%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 99 (73.88%) Cisco
2 45 (33.58%) VMware
3 33 (24.63%) Juniper
4 28 (20.90%) Palo Alto
5 22 (16.42%) Fortinet
5 22 (16.42%) Veeam
6 21 (15.67%) Microsoft
7 17 (12.69%) Dell
8 16 (11.94%) CheckPoint
9 15 (11.19%) Commvault
10 14 (10.45%) AppDynamics
10 14 (10.45%) F5
10 14 (10.45%) IBM
11 12 (8.96%) HP
11 12 (8.96%) Meraki
12 8 (5.97%) ServiceNow
13 6 (4.48%) Splunk
14 5 (3.73%) Aruba
14 5 (3.73%) Broadcom
14 5 (3.73%) LogicMonitor