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 October 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
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 386 393
Rank change year-on-year -119 +7 +39
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 132 129 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.46% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 0.97% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 95 70
10th Percentile £400 £375 £300
25th Percentile £458 £413 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £597
90th Percentile £678 £645 £661
UK median daily rate £538 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £47.57 £58.15 -
25th Percentile £58.13 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +179.41% -63.93%
75th Percentile - £67.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +3.38% +179.41% -63.93%

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 19,213 13,244 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.48% 47.71% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,427 8,570
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £630
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,240 639 535
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.96 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.92 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £25.04 £25.15 £31.50
% change year-on-year -0.45% -20.17% -26.74%

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 October 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 6 October 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 6 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 East -44 45 £538 +7.50% 12
Midlands -31 23 £575 +16.46% 2
London -102 21 £450 -7.69% 30
West Midlands -39 20 £575 +16.46% 2
North of England -85 15 £400 -15.79% 7
South West -40 14 £685 +24.55% 12
East of England -17 10 - - 20
North West -50 6 £400 -13.51% 5
North East -33 5 £225 -55.00% 1
Yorkshire -50 4 £519 +8.58% 1
East Midlands - 3 £475 -
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 2 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (29.55%) Azure
2 16 (12.12%) AWS
3 8 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.55%) Datadog
4 6 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (3.03%) GitHub
5 4 (3.03%) IaaS
5 4 (3.03%) PaaS
6 3 (2.27%) GCP
6 3 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.27%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.27%) SaaS
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.52%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.76%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 47 (35.61%) Firewall
2 46 (34.85%) DNS
3 43 (32.58%) LAN
4 42 (31.82%) WAN
5 34 (25.76%) Network Security
6 29 (21.97%) BGP
7 27 (20.45%) DHCP
8 26 (19.70%) VPN
9 25 (18.94%) OSPF
10 19 (14.39%) SD-WAN
10 19 (14.39%) SNMP
10 19 (14.39%) VLAN
11 18 (13.64%) TCP/IP
12 17 (12.88%) SSL
13 16 (12.12%) Cisco ASA
13 16 (12.12%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (10.61%) IPsec
15 13 (9.85%) Cisco Nexus
15 13 (9.85%) Wireless
16 12 (9.09%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.27%) Power BI
4 1 (0.76%) Metadata
4 1 (0.76%) MySQL
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (3.79%) JIRA
2 2 (1.52%) Git
2 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 26 (19.70%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.30%) Legal
4 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Finance
9 1 (0.76%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (28.03%) Network Engineer
2 16 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (9.85%) Senior
5 11 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.58%) Architect
6 10 (7.58%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Consultant
8 7 (5.30%) Data Centre Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Administrator
9 6 (4.55%) Analyst
9 6 (4.55%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Network Architect
10 5 (3.79%) Lead
10 5 (3.79%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.85%) Terraform
2 11 (8.33%) 802.1X
3 10 (7.58%) REST
4 3 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.27%) SAML
5 2 (1.52%) LDAP
5 2 (1.52%) YAML
6 1 (0.76%) JSON
6 1 (0.76%) Loki
6 1 (0.76%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.76%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.76%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.82%) CMDB
2 9 (6.82%) PKI
3 7 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.30%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.79%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.03%) Fibre Optics
6 4 (3.03%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.03%) Replication
7 3 (2.27%) Clustering
7 3 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.27%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (51.52%) Windows
2 38 (28.79%) Linux
3 21 (15.91%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.55%) AIX
7 2 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.52%) Unix
8 1 (0.76%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.09%) ITIL
2 28 (21.21%) Network Monitoring
3 26 (19.70%) ITSM
4 24 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
5 23 (17.42%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (14.39%) Agile
6 19 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (14.39%) High Availability
7 18 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (13.64%) Project Delivery
7 18 (13.64%) Service Delivery
7 18 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (12.12%) Service Management
9 15 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (11.36%) Load Balancing
10 14 (10.61%) Capacity Management
10 14 (10.61%) Migration
10 14 (10.61%) Security Operations
11 13 (9.85%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.21%) PowerShell
2 25 (18.94%) Python
3 18 (13.64%) SQL
4 12 (9.09%) Bash
5 6 (4.55%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (3.03%) Perl
7 1 (0.76%) Java
7 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (53.79%) Security Cleared
2 46 (34.85%) DV Cleared
3 23 (17.42%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (13.64%) SC Cleared
5 15 (11.36%) CCNA
5 15 (11.36%) CCNP
6 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (5.30%) MCSE
8 6 (4.55%) Degree
9 5 (3.79%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.79%) CCIE
9 5 (3.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (3.03%) MCSA
11 3 (2.27%) CCA
11 3 (2.27%) CISM
11 3 (2.27%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (2.27%) CRISC
11 3 (2.27%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.58%) NIST
2 8 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.03%) NCSC
4 3 (2.27%) GDPR
4 3 (2.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.76%) PMO
5 1 (0.76%) QA
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 44 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (15.15%) vSphere
3 17 (12.88%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (11.36%) VMware NSX
5 10 (7.58%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.79%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.27%) NFS
8 2 (1.52%) Docker
8 2 (1.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.52%) Firmware
8 2 (1.52%) SRDF
9 1 (0.76%) Samba
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (15.91%) Nagios
1 21 (15.91%) SCOM
2 18 (13.64%) vCenter Server
3 11 (8.33%) Ansible
4 8 (6.06%) WMI
4 8 (6.06%) ZABBIX
5 7 (5.30%) FortiGate
5 7 (5.30%) Grafana
6 6 (4.55%) SCCM
7 5 (3.79%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.79%) Netcool
7 5 (3.79%) SolarWinds Orion
7 5 (3.79%) Tivoli
8 4 (3.03%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (3.03%) NetBackup
9 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (2.27%) OpenView
9 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.27%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 2 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (53.79%) Cisco
2 55 (41.67%) VMware
3 33 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 31 (23.48%) ServiceNow
4 31 (23.48%) Splunk
5 30 (22.73%) Microsoft
6 24 (18.18%) F5
7 16 (12.12%) Fortinet
8 14 (10.61%) Veeam
9 12 (9.09%) Juniper
10 11 (8.33%) Broadcom
10 11 (8.33%) Meraki
11 10 (7.58%) CheckPoint
11 10 (7.58%) Commvault
12 9 (6.82%) NetApp
13 8 (6.06%) Aruba
13 8 (6.06%) BMC
14 7 (5.30%) Dynatrace
15 6 (4.55%) BT
15 6 (4.55%) Xerox