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 6 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
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 377 424
Rank change year-on-year -6 +47 +145
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 137 144 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.46% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.97% 1.03% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 84 105
10th Percentile £360 £327 £325
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% -6.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £588
90th Percentile £627 £709 £695
UK median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% +9.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £58.15 - £51.80
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
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 14,077 13,990 17,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.79% 44.99% 44.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,038 8,400 11,638
10th Percentile £283 £300 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 692 432 612
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.00 £20.27
Median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.22 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £31.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -20.40% -28.25% +75.60%

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 6 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 6 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 +2 38 £500 +17.65% 41
London -1 28 £500 - 41
North of England -44 27 £475 +2.70% 12
West Midlands -11 24 £448 -8.91% 9
Midlands -32 24 £448 -14.76% 16
Yorkshire -13 18 £478 +112.44%
South West +13 16 £550 +30.95% 17
North West -42 8 £475 +1.33% 9
East of England -15 1 £400 -30.74% 5
North East - 1 £500 - 3
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 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (7.30%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.57%) Confluence
3 6 (4.38%) Skype for Business
4 4 (2.92%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.90%) Azure
2 23 (16.79%) AWS
3 8 (5.84%) 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
9 2 (1.46%) IaaS
9 2 (1.46%) PaaS
10 1 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.73%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 54 (39.42%) Firewall
2 45 (32.85%) Cisco ISE
3 34 (24.82%) DNS
4 33 (24.09%) BGP
5 30 (21.90%) OSPF
5 30 (21.90%) WAN
6 28 (20.44%) VLAN
7 24 (17.52%) Network Security
7 24 (17.52%) SD-WAN
7 24 (17.52%) Wireless
8 23 (16.79%) DHCP
9 22 (16.06%) Cisco IOS
9 22 (16.06%) VPN
10 21 (15.33%) Cisco Firepower
11 19 (13.87%) LAN
12 18 (13.14%) Cisco Nexus
12 18 (13.14%) TCP/IP
13 17 (12.41%) Junos
14 15 (10.95%) Wireshark
15 14 (10.22%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) JIRA
2 3 (2.19%) Git
3 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 32 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.90%) Public Sector
3 21 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.57%) Finance
5 4 (2.92%) Banking
5 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Law
7 2 (1.46%) Presentation 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%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.73%) Legal
8 1 (0.73%) Police
Job Titles
1 62 (45.26%) Network Engineer
2 25 (18.25%) Support Engineer
3 19 (13.87%) Analyst
4 18 (13.14%) Network Support
5 17 (12.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) Network Support Engineer
6 16 (11.68%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 16 (11.68%) 3rd Line Support
6 16 (11.68%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 16 (11.68%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 16 (11.68%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 12 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (8.03%) Network Analyst
9 10 (7.30%) Security Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Wintel Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Network Security Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Senior
12 7 (5.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.46%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.73%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.17%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.30%) PKI
3 8 (5.84%) 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%) CMDB
7 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (31.39%) Windows
2 26 (18.98%) Windows Server
3 18 (13.14%) Linux
4 6 (4.38%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.65%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.19%) Unix
8 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.73%) Solaris
8 1 (0.73%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (21.90%) Service Management
2 25 (18.25%) ITSM
3 21 (15.33%) ITIL
4 19 (13.87%) Network Monitoring
5 18 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (12.41%) Agile
7 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (11.68%) Performance Monitoring
8 11 (8.03%) High Availability
9 9 (6.57%) Load Balancing
9 9 (6.57%) Network Design
9 9 (6.57%) Network Segmentation
9 9 (6.57%) Project Delivery
10 8 (5.84%) Computer Science
10 8 (5.84%) Migration
11 7 (5.11%) Asset Management
11 7 (5.11%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (5.11%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (5.11%) Mentoring
11 7 (5.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.14%) PowerShell
1 18 (13.14%) Python
2 7 (5.11%) Bash
2 7 (5.11%) SQL
3 6 (4.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (54.01%) Security Cleared
2 36 (26.28%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (25.55%) SC Cleared
4 31 (22.63%) DV Cleared
5 30 (21.90%) CCNP
6 14 (10.22%) CCNA
6 14 (10.22%) Degree
7 7 (5.11%) CCIE
7 7 (5.11%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (4.38%) CCSA
8 6 (4.38%) MCSE
8 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.65%) CISSP
9 5 (3.65%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.19%) CCDP
10 3 (2.19%) CCIE Security
10 3 (2.19%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) GDPR
1 6 (4.38%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.92%) NIST
4 2 (1.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.73%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.73%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.73%) QA
5 1 (0.73%) RMADS
5 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (22.63%) Active Directory
2 28 (20.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (19.71%) VMware NSX
4 12 (8.76%) vSphere
5 7 (5.11%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (3.65%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (2.92%) Firmware
7 4 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.73%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (17.52%) vCenter Server
2 20 (14.60%) Ansible
3 14 (10.22%) SCCM
4 9 (6.57%) FortiGate
4 9 (6.57%) WSUS
5 7 (5.11%) SCOM
5 7 (5.11%) Terraform
5 7 (5.11%) vRealize
5 7 (5.11%) VxRail
6 5 (3.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.92%) CA Spectrum
7 4 (2.92%) Nagios
7 4 (2.92%) Tivoli
8 3 (2.19%) Iperf
8 3 (2.19%) Nmap
8 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.46%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.46%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.73%) Nessus
10 1 (0.73%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 100 (72.99%) Cisco
2 37 (27.01%) Juniper
3 36 (26.28%) VMware
4 35 (25.55%) F5
5 29 (21.17%) Fortinet
6 23 (16.79%) Microsoft
6 23 (16.79%) Palo Alto
7 21 (15.33%) CheckPoint
7 21 (15.33%) Veeam
8 15 (10.95%) Meraki
9 13 (9.49%) LogicMonitor
10 12 (8.76%) Dell
11 8 (5.84%) AppDynamics
11 8 (5.84%) Commvault
11 8 (5.84%) IBM
12 7 (5.11%) ServiceNow
12 7 (5.11%) Splunk
13 6 (4.38%) HP
14 4 (2.92%) Citrix
14 4 (2.92%) NetApp