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 28 April 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
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 345 395
Rank change year-on-year -111 +50 +129
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 128 142 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.58% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.76% 1.22% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 101 105
10th Percentile £287 £313 £328
25th Percentile £332 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% +2.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £625
90th Percentile £571 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £453 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -9.40% -2.91% +11.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £42.05 - -
25th Percentile £43.11 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £28.15
75th Percentile £62.29 - £42.19
90th Percentile £68.11 - £57.38
UK median hourly rate £48.72 - £28.15
% change year-on-year - - -55.04%

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 16,952 11,612 15,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.21% 47.48% 42.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,515 9,884
10th Percentile £313 £288 £256
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 895 458 986
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.81 £18.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £30.15 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +22.22% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.09 £55.08
90th Percentile £79.20 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.86%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -36 48 £500 -9.09% 2
London -95 22 £500 - 3
Midlands -77 18 £300 -48.57% 5
South West -29 17 £371 -29.43% 8
West Midlands -62 17 £295 -46.46% 5
North of England -80 17 £355 -23.04% 4
North West -38 14 £348 -18.24% 1
East of England -27 6 £363 -34.09%
Yorkshire - 4 £519 - 2
East Midlands -45 1 £475 -26.98%
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 7 (5.47%) Confluence
2 6 (4.69%) IIS
3 5 (3.91%) Apache
4 4 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (9.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (28.13%) Azure
2 26 (20.31%) AWS
3 11 (8.59%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.25%) Datadog
5 6 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (3.91%) Nutanix
7 4 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (3.13%) GCP
7 4 (3.13%) SaaS
8 3 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.34%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.34%) PaaS
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.78%) GitHub
9 1 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.78%) IaaS
9 1 (0.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (52.34%) Firewall
2 52 (40.63%) WAN
3 49 (38.28%) LAN
4 45 (35.16%) DNS
5 37 (28.91%) DHCP
6 33 (25.78%) BGP
6 33 (25.78%) OSPF
7 29 (22.66%) BIG-IP
7 29 (22.66%) Junos
8 26 (20.31%) Ethernet VPN
8 26 (20.31%) VXLAN
9 24 (18.75%) Cisco ISE
9 24 (18.75%) VPN
10 20 (15.63%) Network Security
11 15 (11.72%) VLAN
12 14 (10.94%) SNMP
13 13 (10.16%) TCP/IP
14 11 (8.59%) SD-WAN
15 10 (7.81%) Cisco Nexus
16 9 (7.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
1 6 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Git
1 4 (3.13%) JIRA
2 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 28 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.59%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.91%) Finance
5 4 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.13%) Law
5 4 (3.13%) Military
6 3 (2.34%) Legal
6 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.34%) Retail
7 2 (1.56%) Aviation
7 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (33.59%) Network Engineer
2 14 (10.94%) Firewall Specialist
2 14 (10.94%) Network Specialist
2 14 (10.94%) Senior
3 11 (8.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (7.03%) Analyst
4 9 (7.03%) Consultant
4 9 (7.03%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (6.25%) Management Consultant
6 7 (5.47%) Architect
7 6 (4.69%) Administrator
7 6 (4.69%) DBA
7 6 (4.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 6 (4.69%) Server Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) SQL DBA
8 5 (3.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.31%) 802.1X
2 17 (13.28%) REST
3 5 (3.91%) LDAP
3 5 (3.91%) SAML
4 4 (3.13%) JSON
5 2 (1.56%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.13%) Clustering
2 34 (26.56%) Data Centre
3 29 (22.66%) PKI
4 7 (5.47%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (5.47%) Replication
5 5 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.34%) CMDB
8 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.56%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.56%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.78%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.78%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (47.66%) Windows
2 29 (22.66%) Linux
3 16 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (9.38%) AIX
5 3 (2.34%) Unix
5 3 (2.34%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.78%) Solaris
7 1 (0.78%) VMS
7 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.91%) High Availability
2 31 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (22.66%) ITIL
3 29 (22.66%) Observability
4 27 (21.09%) Load Balancing
5 24 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
6 18 (14.06%) ITSM
7 17 (13.28%) Agile
7 17 (13.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
9 15 (11.72%) Service Management
10 14 (10.94%) Change Management
11 13 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (10.16%) Project Delivery
12 12 (9.38%) Capacity Planning
12 12 (9.38%) Dashboard Development
13 9 (7.03%) Availability Management
13 9 (7.03%) Migration
14 8 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.22%) PowerShell
2 22 (17.19%) Python
3 17 (13.28%) SQL
4 12 (9.38%) Search Processing Language
5 6 (4.69%) Bash
6 2 (1.56%) Perl
7 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 72 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 38 (29.69%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (25.78%) SC Cleared
4 25 (19.53%) DV Cleared
5 16 (12.50%) CCNP
6 11 (8.59%) CCNA
6 11 (8.59%) JNCIS
7 8 (6.25%) JNCIA
8 7 (5.47%) JNCIP
9 5 (3.91%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.34%) CCIE
11 3 (2.34%) Degree
11 3 (2.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.56%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.56%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.56%) OCA
12 2 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) QA
2 3 (2.34%) NCSC
3 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.56%) GDPR
3 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) GRC
4 1 (0.78%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.78%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (20.31%) Active Directory
2 23 (17.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.16%) Hyper-V
3 13 (10.16%) VMware NSX
4 12 (9.38%) vSphere
5 5 (3.91%) Firmware
6 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.78%) KVM
7 1 (0.78%) NFS
7 1 (0.78%) RHEV
7 1 (0.78%) SRDF
7 1 (0.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (21.88%) Nagios
2 26 (20.31%) FortiGate
3 21 (16.41%) Ansible
4 16 (12.50%) Terraform
5 12 (9.38%) ZABBIX
6 11 (8.59%) Netcool
7 10 (7.81%) OpenView
7 10 (7.81%) Tivoli
7 10 (7.81%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 7 (5.47%) vRealize
9 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (4.69%) SCCM
9 6 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (4.69%) vCenter Server
9 6 (4.69%) VxRail
10 5 (3.91%) Cisco Prime
11 4 (3.13%) Pingdom
12 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (2.34%) WSUS
13 2 (1.56%) Nmap
Vendors
1 80 (62.50%) Cisco
2 42 (32.81%) Juniper
3 40 (31.25%) Splunk
4 34 (26.56%) F5
5 25 (19.53%) VMware
6 23 (17.97%) Extreme Networks
7 20 (15.63%) Palo Alto
8 18 (14.06%) HP
9 17 (13.28%) IBM
10 15 (11.72%) Microsoft
11 14 (10.94%) BMC
12 11 (8.59%) CheckPoint
12 11 (8.59%) Fortinet
13 9 (7.03%) AppDynamics
13 9 (7.03%) Commvault
13 9 (7.03%) ServiceNow
14 8 (6.25%) Dell
14 8 (6.25%) Veeam
15 7 (5.47%) Meraki
16 6 (4.69%) RedGate