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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 336 416
Rank change year-on-year -127 +80 +51
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 129 152 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.63% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.75% 1.32% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 108 97
10th Percentile £302 £313 £400
25th Percentile £356 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.95% +14.49%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £588
90th Percentile £600 £692 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £42.05 - -
25th Percentile £43.11 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.72 £57.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.27% +141.60% -61.99%
75th Percentile £62.29 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £68.11 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £57.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -15.27% +141.60% -61.99%

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 17,159 11,491 15,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.68% 47.53% 41.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,027 7,309 9,856
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% - -2.83%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £504 £515
% change year-on-year -0.79% -2.14% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 912 497 1,035
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.84 £12.18
25th Percentile £19.02 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.40 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% +15.13% -39.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.48 £22.90
% change year-on-year +22.76% +15.62% -46.75%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -33 53 £500 +8.11% 3
London -103 19 £500 - 3
South West -19 18 £426 -19.81% 4
North of England -84 18 £389 -17.81% 7
Midlands -67 16 £488 -12.95%
West Midlands -63 15 £500 -9.26%
North West -45 14 £353 -17.06% 3
Yorkshire -65 5 £519 +8.92% 2
East of England -26 4 £363 -9.38%
East Midlands -30 1 £475 -26.95%
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 (2.33%) Apache
1 3 (2.33%) IIS
2 2 (1.55%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.48%) Azure
2 18 (13.95%) AWS
3 8 (6.20%) Entra ID
3 8 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.65%) SaaS
5 3 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.33%) GCP
5 3 (2.33%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.33%) PaaS
5 3 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.55%) Azure Storage
6 2 (1.55%) Datadog
6 2 (1.55%) GitHub
6 2 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.55%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.78%) IaaS
7 1 (0.78%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 65 (50.39%) Firewall
2 60 (46.51%) WAN
3 58 (44.96%) LAN
4 50 (38.76%) DNS
5 42 (32.56%) DHCP
6 34 (26.36%) BGP
6 34 (26.36%) OSPF
7 30 (23.26%) VPN
8 28 (21.71%) BIG-IP
9 27 (20.93%) Ethernet VPN
9 27 (20.93%) VXLAN
10 26 (20.16%) SNMP
11 25 (19.38%) Network Security
12 24 (18.60%) Junos
13 20 (15.50%) Cisco ISE
14 18 (13.95%) VLAN
15 13 (10.08%) SD-WAN
16 12 (9.30%) TCP/IP
17 10 (7.75%) Cisco ASA
17 10 (7.75%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.55%) JIRA
1 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.78%) Git
General
1 30 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.10%) Law
4 4 (3.10%) Military
5 3 (2.33%) Legal
5 3 (2.33%) Retail
6 2 (1.55%) Aviation
6 2 (1.55%) Finance
6 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (28.68%) Network Engineer
2 17 (13.18%) Senior
3 14 (10.85%) Consultant
3 14 (10.85%) Firewall Specialist
3 14 (10.85%) Network Specialist
4 12 (9.30%) Management Consultant
4 12 (9.30%) Senior Network Engineer
5 11 (8.53%) Architect
6 10 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.43%) Administrator
8 6 (4.65%) DBA
8 6 (4.65%) Network Architect
8 6 (4.65%) Server Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) SQL DBA
9 5 (3.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) Network Manager
10 4 (3.10%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.33%) Network Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (22.48%) 802.1X
2 20 (15.50%) REST
3 4 (3.10%) LDAP
3 4 (3.10%) SAML
4 2 (1.55%) JSON
4 2 (1.55%) Middleware
5 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (31.78%) Data Centre
2 36 (27.91%) Clustering
3 27 (20.93%) PKI
4 8 (6.20%) Replication
5 5 (3.88%) CMDB
6 4 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.10%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.33%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.55%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.55%) EMC VNX
8 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (55.04%) Windows
2 32 (24.81%) Linux
3 17 (13.18%) AIX
4 14 (10.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.55%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.55%) Unix
5 2 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) VMS
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.91%) High Availability
2 31 (24.03%) ITIL
2 31 (24.03%) Observability
3 30 (23.26%) Load Balancing
4 28 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (18.60%) Identity Access Management
6 20 (15.50%) Network Monitoring
7 18 (13.95%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (13.95%) ITSM
8 15 (11.63%) Project Delivery
9 14 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (10.85%) Dashboard Development
9 14 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (10.08%) Service Management
11 12 (9.30%) Migration
12 11 (8.53%) Capacity Planning
12 11 (8.53%) Network Design
12 11 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (8.53%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (7.75%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.91%) PowerShell
2 26 (20.16%) SQL
3 24 (18.60%) Python
4 17 (13.18%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (3.10%) Bash
6 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 77 (59.69%) Security Cleared
2 37 (28.68%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (25.58%) SC Cleared
4 30 (23.26%) DV Cleared
5 15 (11.63%) CCNP
6 11 (8.53%) JNCIS
7 10 (7.75%) CCNA
8 8 (6.20%) JNCIA
9 7 (5.43%) JNCIP
10 5 (3.88%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
12 3 (2.33%) CCA
12 3 (2.33%) CCIE
12 3 (2.33%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (2.33%) MCSA
12 3 (2.33%) MCSE
13 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.10%) NIST
2 3 (2.33%) NCSC
2 3 (2.33%) QA
3 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) GRC
4 1 (0.78%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.78%) PMO
4 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (21.71%) Active Directory
2 23 (17.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.53%) Hyper-V
4 10 (7.75%) VMware NSX
4 10 (7.75%) vSphere
5 8 (6.20%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.55%) NFS
7 2 (1.55%) SRDF
8 1 (0.78%) Docker
8 1 (0.78%) Firmware
8 1 (0.78%) KVM
8 1 (0.78%) RHEV
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (25.58%) Nagios
2 26 (20.16%) FortiGate
3 17 (13.18%) Ansible
3 17 (13.18%) ZABBIX
4 16 (12.40%) Netcool
5 15 (11.63%) Tivoli
6 13 (10.08%) OpenView
6 13 (10.08%) Terraform
6 13 (10.08%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 7 (5.43%) SCCM
8 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (4.65%) vCenter Server
8 6 (4.65%) WMI
9 5 (3.88%) Cisco Prime
9 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (3.88%) SCOM
10 4 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (2.33%) Grafana
11 3 (2.33%) Kubernetes
12 2 (1.55%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 80 (62.02%) Cisco
2 50 (38.76%) Splunk
3 40 (31.01%) F5
4 38 (29.46%) Juniper
5 27 (20.93%) Palo Alto
6 24 (18.60%) VMware
7 23 (17.83%) Extreme Networks
8 22 (17.05%) Microsoft
9 21 (16.28%) ServiceNow
10 19 (14.73%) BMC
11 17 (13.18%) Fortinet
12 14 (10.85%) HP
12 14 (10.85%) IBM
13 13 (10.08%) CheckPoint
14 10 (7.75%) Meraki
15 9 (6.98%) Veeam
16 6 (4.65%) Aruba
16 6 (4.65%) NetApp
16 6 (4.65%) RedGate
17 5 (3.88%) Dynatrace