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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 387 401
Rank change year-on-year -108 +14 +36
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 128 133 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.48% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 1.01% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 95 75
10th Percentile £354 £344 £292
25th Percentile £427 £403 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.04% -4.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £544 £618
90th Percentile £679 £650 £642
UK median daily rate £529 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +10.73% -4.40% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £44.86 £58.15 -
25th Percentile £46.56 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.25 £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +179.41% -63.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £66.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -12.41% +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 19,212 13,190 14,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.42% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 8,376 8,896
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £620 £619 £630
90th Percentile £711 £712 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,131 615 595
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.86 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -47 45 £538 +13.16% 13
Midlands -36 23 £575 +16.46% 3
West Midlands -37 20 £575 +16.46% 3
London -92 19 £450 -5.26% 31
South West -32 18 £613 +11.36% 9
North of England -84 13 £400 -15.79% 7
East of England -25 6 - - 20
North West -57 6 £400 -11.11% 6
Yorkshire -51 4 £519 +8.58%
North East -44 3 £225 -55.00% 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 3 (2.34%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.56%) Azure
2 16 (12.50%) AWS
3 6 (4.69%) Datadog
3 6 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.13%) GitHub
6 3 (2.34%) GCP
6 3 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.34%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.34%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.34%) SaaS
7 2 (1.56%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.56%) IaaS
7 2 (1.56%) PaaS
7 2 (1.56%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 47 (36.72%) DNS
2 45 (35.16%) Firewall
3 43 (33.59%) WAN
4 41 (32.03%) LAN
5 31 (24.22%) Network Security
6 27 (21.09%) BGP
6 27 (21.09%) DHCP
7 24 (18.75%) VPN
8 23 (17.97%) OSPF
8 23 (17.97%) SNMP
9 17 (13.28%) SD-WAN
9 17 (13.28%) VLAN
10 16 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (10.94%) IPsec
11 14 (10.94%) TCP/IP
11 14 (10.94%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (10.16%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (10.16%) SSL
12 13 (10.16%) Wireless
13 12 (9.38%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.34%) Power BI
3 1 (0.78%) Metadata
3 1 (0.78%) MySQL
3 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (4.69%) JIRA
2 2 (1.56%) Git
2 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 27 (21.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.47%) Legal
3 7 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (3.91%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Finance
7 2 (1.56%) Law
8 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (25.78%) Network Engineer
2 13 (10.16%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (10.16%) Senior
3 11 (8.59%) Consultant
3 11 (8.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (7.81%) Support Engineer
5 9 (7.03%) Architect
6 8 (6.25%) Management Consultant
6 8 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Administrator
7 7 (5.47%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Analyst
8 6 (4.69%) Network Architect
9 5 (3.91%) Data Centre Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Firewall Specialist
10 4 (3.13%) Network Manager
10 4 (3.13%) Network Specialist
10 4 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.16%) 802.1X
1 13 (10.16%) REST
2 11 (8.59%) Terraform
3 3 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.34%) SAML
4 2 (1.56%) LDAP
4 2 (1.56%) YAML
5 1 (0.78%) JSON
5 1 (0.78%) Loki
5 1 (0.78%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.78%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.78%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.19%) Data Centre
2 11 (8.59%) PKI
3 8 (6.25%) CMDB
4 7 (5.47%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.47%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.91%) Clustering
6 5 (3.91%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.13%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (3.13%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.13%) Replication
8 3 (2.34%) CSOC
8 3 (2.34%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.34%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 68 (53.13%) Windows
2 40 (31.25%) Linux
3 16 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.81%) AIX
4 10 (7.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.56%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.56%) Unix
7 1 (0.78%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (35.16%) ITIL
2 27 (21.09%) Network Monitoring
3 24 (18.75%) ITSM
4 23 (17.97%) Network Virtualisation
5 22 (17.19%) Technical Leadership
6 21 (16.41%) High Availability
7 20 (15.63%) Project Delivery
8 19 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (14.06%) Agile
10 16 (12.50%) Observability
10 16 (12.50%) Service Delivery
11 15 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (11.72%) Service Management
11 15 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (10.94%) Load Balancing
13 13 (10.16%) Capacity Management
13 13 (10.16%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (10.16%) Network Management
14 12 (9.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.44%) PowerShell
2 29 (22.66%) Python
3 20 (15.63%) SQL
4 12 (9.38%) Bash
5 10 (7.81%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (3.13%) Perl
7 1 (0.78%) Java
7 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (58.59%) Security Cleared
2 44 (34.38%) DV Cleared
3 23 (17.97%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (17.97%) SC Cleared
4 13 (10.16%) CCNA
5 12 (9.38%) CCNP
6 8 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (5.47%) MCSE
8 6 (4.69%) Degree
9 5 (3.91%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.91%) CCIE
10 4 (3.13%) MCSA
11 3 (2.34%) CCA
11 3 (2.34%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (2.34%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (2.34%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.34%) PMP
12 2 (1.56%) NCDA
12 2 (1.56%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) NIST
2 6 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.13%) NCSC
4 2 (1.56%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.78%) PMO
5 1 (0.78%) QA
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (30.47%) Active Directory
2 38 (29.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (11.72%) VMware NSX
5 14 (10.94%) vSphere
6 8 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (3.91%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.34%) NFS
9 2 (1.56%) Docker
9 2 (1.56%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.56%) Firmware
9 2 (1.56%) SRDF
10 1 (0.78%) Samba
10 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (16.41%) Nagios
2 20 (15.63%) SCOM
3 17 (13.28%) vCenter Server
4 12 (9.38%) ZABBIX
5 11 (8.59%) Ansible
6 10 (7.81%) FortiGate
7 9 (7.03%) Netcool
7 9 (7.03%) Tivoli
8 8 (6.25%) WMI
9 7 (5.47%) Grafana
9 7 (5.47%) OpenView
9 7 (5.47%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 6 (4.69%) SCCM
11 5 (3.91%) Kubernetes
11 5 (3.91%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (3.13%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (3.13%) NetBackup
13 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (2.34%) Prometheus
13 3 (2.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (53.91%) Cisco
2 48 (37.50%) VMware
3 37 (28.91%) Splunk
4 33 (25.78%) Palo Alto
5 28 (21.88%) Microsoft
5 28 (21.88%) ServiceNow
6 26 (20.31%) F5
7 17 (13.28%) Fortinet
8 14 (10.94%) Juniper
9 12 (9.38%) BMC
10 10 (7.81%) Broadcom
10 10 (7.81%) Veeam
11 9 (7.03%) Meraki
12 8 (6.25%) Aruba
12 8 (6.25%) CheckPoint
12 8 (6.25%) IBM
13 7 (5.47%) HP
13 7 (5.47%) NetApp
14 6 (4.69%) Commvault
14 6 (4.69%) Dynatrace