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 19 December 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 369 433
Rank change year-on-year -39 +64 +137
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 126 135 132
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.84% 1.02% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 85 89
10th Percentile £317 £300 £323
25th Percentile £413 £406 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.04% +16.76%
75th Percentile £536 £623 £638
90th Percentile £598 £715 £713
UK median daily rate £498 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +4.74% -9.52% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile - - £34.20
25th Percentile £65.75 - £57.37
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £65.98
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £38.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +75.00% -42.41% +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 14,934 13,299 16,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.48% 45.90% 44.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,682 8,112 10,891
10th Percentile £294 £291 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 726 385 614
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.55 £14.62
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.08 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%
75th Percentile £47.69 £65.00 £64.85
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 -20 38 £500 +18.34% 19
London -4 27 £500 -4.63% 12
West Midlands -22 24 £320 -39.05% 12
Midlands -43 24 £320 -46.67% 13
South West -3 18 £550 +32.13% 10
North of England -67 16 £335 -29.47% 4
North West -42 15 £338 -28.95% 3
East of England -20 2 £363 -37.23% 1
Yorkshire -43 1 £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 (8.73%) Confluence
1 11 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (8.73%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.76%) Skype for Business
3 4 (3.17%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (3.17%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (2.38%) IIS
5 2 (1.59%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (7.94%) MS Visio
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (31.75%) Azure
2 32 (25.40%) AWS
3 14 (11.11%) Datadog
4 7 (5.56%) GCP
5 5 (3.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (3.17%) Akamai
6 4 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (3.17%) SaaS
6 4 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.38%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.59%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.79%) IaaS
9 1 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (36.51%) Firewall
2 34 (26.98%) Cisco ISE
2 34 (26.98%) DNS
3 26 (20.63%) Cisco IOS
4 25 (19.84%) BGP
4 25 (19.84%) Network Security
4 25 (19.84%) WAN
5 23 (18.25%) LAN
5 23 (18.25%) VLAN
6 22 (17.46%) Cisco Firepower
6 22 (17.46%) DHCP
6 22 (17.46%) Junos
6 22 (17.46%) OSPF
6 22 (17.46%) VPN
7 20 (15.87%) TCP/IP
8 16 (12.70%) Wireless
9 15 (11.90%) SD-WAN
9 15 (11.90%) WLAN
10 12 (9.52%) VSAN
11 11 (8.73%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Git
1 5 (3.97%) JIRA
2 4 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.79%) Subversion
General
1 38 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 24 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.56%) Finance
5 5 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.79%) Advertising
8 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.79%) French Language
8 1 (0.79%) Law
8 1 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 53 (42.06%) Network Engineer
2 22 (17.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 21 (16.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 21 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (16.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 20 (15.87%) Support Engineer
5 19 (15.08%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 17 (13.49%) Network Support
6 17 (13.49%) Network Support Engineer
7 16 (12.70%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (12.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 15 (11.90%) Analyst
9 13 (10.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (8.73%) Server Engineer
11 9 (7.14%) Senior
12 7 (5.56%) Security Engineer
13 6 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
13 6 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
14 5 (3.97%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.97%) REST
2 4 (3.17%) JSON
3 1 (0.79%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.79%) LDAP
3 1 (0.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.90%) PKI
2 14 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (10.32%) Data Centre
4 10 (7.94%) Clustering
5 5 (3.97%) Replication
6 3 (2.38%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (37.30%) Windows
2 33 (26.19%) Windows Server
3 26 (20.63%) Linux
4 6 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.38%) Unix
7 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.79%) Solaris
7 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (24.60%) Service Management
2 25 (19.84%) ITSM
3 21 (16.67%) Agile
4 20 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (13.49%) Network Monitoring
6 13 (10.32%) ITIL
7 11 (8.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (7.94%) Change Management
8 10 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (7.94%) Mentoring
8 10 (7.94%) Network Design
8 10 (7.94%) Project Delivery
9 9 (7.14%) High Availability
9 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (6.35%) Computer Science
10 8 (6.35%) Critical Thinking
10 8 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (6.35%) Migration
10 8 (6.35%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.46%) PowerShell
2 17 (13.49%) Python
3 8 (6.35%) SQL
4 7 (5.56%) Bash
4 7 (5.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 64 (50.79%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.40%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (23.81%) CCNP
4 29 (23.02%) DV Cleared
5 26 (20.63%) SC Cleared
6 14 (11.11%) CCNA
7 13 (10.32%) Degree
8 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (6.35%) MCSE
10 7 (5.56%) CCIE
11 6 (4.76%) CCSA
11 6 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (3.97%) Master's Degree
13 4 (3.17%) CISSP
14 3 (2.38%) CCDP
14 3 (2.38%) CCSP
14 3 (2.38%) MCSA
14 3 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (2.38%) OCA
14 3 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.97%) GDPR
3 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.17%) NIST
4 2 (1.59%) SLA
5 1 (0.79%) QA
5 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 39 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (26.19%) VMware NSX
4 15 (11.90%) vSphere
5 11 (8.73%) Hyper-V
6 8 (6.35%) Firmware
7 7 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.79%) KVM
9 1 (0.79%) RHEV
9 1 (0.79%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (23.02%) vCenter Server
2 23 (18.25%) Ansible
3 18 (14.29%) Terraform
4 13 (10.32%) vRealize
5 12 (9.52%) Nagios
5 12 (9.52%) VxRail
6 10 (7.94%) SCCM
7 9 (7.14%) WSUS
8 6 (4.76%) FortiGate
8 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (3.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (3.17%) CA Spectrum
10 4 (3.17%) Pingdom
11 3 (2.38%) Iperf
11 3 (2.38%) Nmap
11 3 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.59%) PowerCLI
12 2 (1.59%) SCOM
12 2 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 97 (76.98%) Cisco
2 43 (34.13%) VMware
3 39 (30.95%) Juniper
4 24 (19.05%) Fortinet
5 22 (17.46%) F5
6 21 (16.67%) Veeam
7 20 (15.87%) Palo Alto
8 18 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 17 (13.49%) CheckPoint
9 17 (13.49%) Dell
10 15 (11.90%) Commvault
11 14 (11.11%) AppDynamics
11 14 (11.11%) IBM
11 14 (11.11%) Meraki
12 12 (9.52%) HP
13 7 (5.56%) Splunk
14 6 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
15 5 (3.97%) Broadcom
15 5 (3.97%) ServiceNow
16 4 (3.17%) PagerDuty