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 20 October 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
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 380 429
Rank change year-on-year -9 +49 +127
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 130 143 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.45% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.97% 1.01% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 78 105
10th Percentile £375 £309 £325
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - +4.34%
75th Percentile £547 £550 £588
90th Percentile £644 £701 £671
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.05% - +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 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 £23.80 £65.98
% change year-on-year +179.41% -63.93% +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 13,436 14,161 18,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.72% 44.83% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,542 8,481 12,043
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £626 £643
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 663 475 625
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.99 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -20.27% +77.09%
75th Percentile £41.98 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +8 35 £500 +18.34% 17
London +24 31 £475 -9.52% 14
North of England -38 27 £475 +2.70% 5
South West +19 19 £550 +30.95% 17
Yorkshire -13 18 £478 +112.44%
West Midlands -11 13 £494 -5.95% 9
Midlands -29 13 £494 -5.95% 12
North West -44 8 £475 +1.33% 4
East of England -3 2 £391 -32.25%
North East - 1 £500 - 1
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 (9.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.38%) Confluence
4 6 (4.62%) Skype for Business
5 4 (3.08%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.77%) Apache
6 1 (0.77%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.62%) Azure
2 11 (8.46%) AWS
3 7 (5.38%) Akamai
4 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.08%) SaaS
5 3 (2.31%) IaaS
6 2 (1.54%) GCP
6 2 (1.54%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.54%) PaaS
7 1 (0.77%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.77%) Datadog
7 1 (0.77%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.77%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.77%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 58 (44.62%) Firewall
2 41 (31.54%) Cisco ISE
3 36 (27.69%) DNS
4 34 (26.15%) BGP
5 31 (23.85%) OSPF
6 28 (21.54%) WAN
7 26 (20.00%) Network Security
7 26 (20.00%) VLAN
8 25 (19.23%) VPN
9 23 (17.69%) DHCP
10 21 (16.15%) Cisco Nexus
10 21 (16.15%) TCP/IP
10 21 (16.15%) Wireless
11 20 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
11 20 (15.38%) SD-WAN
12 19 (14.62%) Cisco Firepower
13 18 (13.85%) LAN
14 15 (11.54%) Junos
14 15 (11.54%) Wireshark
15 13 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (9.23%) JIRA
2 2 (1.54%) Git
2 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (23.85%) Public Sector
2 30 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.46%) Finance
5 4 (3.08%) Banking
5 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Law
6 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.54%) Electronics
7 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.54%) Legal
7 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.54%) Marketing
8 1 (0.77%) Advertising
8 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.77%) French Language
8 1 (0.77%) Police
Job Titles
1 65 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 25 (19.23%) Support Engineer
3 16 (12.31%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 16 (12.31%) Network Support
4 15 (11.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 15 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (11.54%) Network Support Engineer
5 14 (10.77%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 14 (10.77%) 3rd Line Support
5 14 (10.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 14 (10.77%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (8.46%) Analyst
7 11 (8.46%) Network Analyst
8 10 (7.69%) Security Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (6.92%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) Wintel Engineer
10 8 (6.15%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.54%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.77%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.69%) PKI
3 5 (3.85%) Replication
4 4 (3.08%) Clustering
4 4 (3.08%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.31%) CMDB
5 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.54%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (34.62%) Windows
2 25 (19.23%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.15%) Linux
4 7 (5.38%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.54%) Mac OS X
7 2 (1.54%) Windows 8
7 2 (1.54%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.54%) Service Management
2 27 (20.77%) Network Monitoring
3 23 (17.69%) ITSM
4 20 (15.38%) ITIL
5 16 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (9.23%) Agile
7 12 (9.23%) High Availability
7 12 (9.23%) Performance Monitoring
8 10 (7.69%) Migration
9 9 (6.92%) Network Segmentation
10 8 (6.15%) Critical Thinking
10 8 (6.15%) Load Balancing
11 7 (5.38%) Asset Management
11 7 (5.38%) Change Management
11 7 (5.38%) Computer Science
12 6 (4.62%) Network Design
12 6 (4.62%) Patch Management
12 6 (4.62%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (4.62%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.08%) PowerShell
2 15 (11.54%) Python
3 9 (6.92%) SQL
4 6 (4.62%) Bash
5 4 (3.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (56.15%) Security Cleared
2 36 (27.69%) SC Cleared
3 32 (24.62%) Cisco Certification
3 32 (24.62%) DV Cleared
4 26 (20.00%) CCNP
5 13 (10.00%) CCNA
6 12 (9.23%) Degree
7 6 (4.62%) CCSA
7 6 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (4.62%) MCSE
7 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.85%) Master's Degree
9 4 (3.08%) CCIE
10 3 (2.31%) CCDP
10 3 (2.31%) CISSP
10 3 (2.31%) JNCIS
11 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.54%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (1.54%) CISA
11 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.54%) JSP 440
1 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.54%) RMADS
1 2 (1.54%) SLA
2 1 (0.77%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.77%) GDPR
2 1 (0.77%) PMO
2 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (24.62%) Active Directory
2 20 (15.38%) VMware NSX
3 16 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.38%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.38%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (5.38%) vSphere
5 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (3.08%) Firmware
6 4 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.54%) XenApp
8 1 (0.77%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (16.92%) vCenter Server
2 18 (13.85%) Ansible
3 13 (10.00%) SCCM
4 9 (6.92%) FortiGate
4 9 (6.92%) WSUS
5 7 (5.38%) SCOM
6 5 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (3.85%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (3.85%) Terraform
6 5 (3.85%) Tivoli
7 4 (3.08%) CA Spectrum
7 4 (3.08%) Nagios
8 3 (2.31%) Iperf
8 3 (2.31%) Nmap
9 2 (1.54%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.54%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (1.54%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.77%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 94 (72.31%) Cisco
2 34 (26.15%) Juniper
3 33 (25.38%) F5
4 27 (20.77%) Fortinet
4 27 (20.77%) VMware
5 23 (17.69%) Microsoft
6 22 (16.92%) Veeam
7 21 (16.15%) Palo Alto
8 20 (15.38%) CheckPoint
9 12 (9.23%) LogicMonitor
10 11 (8.46%) Meraki
11 9 (6.92%) ServiceNow
12 8 (6.15%) Dell
13 7 (5.38%) Citrix
14 6 (4.62%) Splunk
15 5 (3.85%) Aruba
16 4 (3.08%) NetApp
17 3 (2.31%) Arista
17 3 (2.31%) Oracle
18 2 (1.54%) Xerox