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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 405 430
Rank change year-on-year +25 +25 +152
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 135 123 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 1.04% 0.86% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 74 105
10th Percentile £335 £290 £325
25th Percentile £400 £360 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £550 £597 £550
90th Percentile £650 £634 £645
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.40% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile £58.15 - £49.60
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +179.41% -63.93% +35.82%
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - £67.98
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £65.98
% change year-on-year +179.41% -63.93% +35.82%

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 12,963 14,377 18,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.08% 44.22% 43.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,222 8,762 12,414
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £650
90th Percentile £702 £732 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 597 587
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.26 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.62 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £43.79
% change year-on-year -16.74% -31.03% +83.16%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds 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 16 September 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 16 September 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
London +37 37 £475 -5.00% 17
North of England -6 34 £475 +2.70% 3
South East +7 31 £488 -2.50% 17
Yorkshire +1 18 £478 +112.44% 3
South West +32 15 £550 +30.95% 4
North West -20 15 £400 -13.51%
West Midlands 0 13 £494 +190.44% 5
Midlands -11 13 £494 -1.25% 8
East of England - 2 £391 - 1
North East - 1 £500 -
SolarWinds
UK

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.70%) Confluence
3 5 (3.70%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.48%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.04%) Azure
2 19 (14.07%) AWS
3 9 (6.67%) Akamai
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.22%) IaaS
5 3 (2.22%) Nutanix
5 3 (2.22%) SaaS
6 2 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.48%) Datadog
6 2 (1.48%) GCP
6 2 (1.48%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.48%) Serverless
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.74%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.74%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.74%) PaaS
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (52.59%) Firewall
2 41 (30.37%) Cisco ISE
3 37 (27.41%) BGP
4 36 (26.67%) DNS
5 34 (25.19%) OSPF
5 34 (25.19%) WAN
6 32 (23.70%) VPN
7 31 (22.96%) Network Security
8 29 (21.48%) SD-WAN
9 28 (20.74%) VLAN
10 25 (18.52%) DHCP
10 25 (18.52%) Wireless
11 23 (17.04%) TCP/IP
12 22 (16.30%) LAN
13 21 (15.56%) Cisco Nexus
14 18 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 17 (12.59%) Wireshark
16 16 (11.85%) EIGRP
17 15 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
18 14 (10.37%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (8.15%) JIRA
2 1 (0.74%) Git
2 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (22.96%) Public Sector
1 31 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.15%) Finance
4 5 (3.70%) Law
5 4 (2.96%) Banking
5 4 (2.96%) Legal
5 4 (2.96%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.48%) Electronics
7 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.48%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Police
8 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 68 (50.37%) Network Engineer
2 20 (14.81%) Support Engineer
3 14 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (9.63%) Security Engineer
5 11 (8.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 11 (8.15%) Analyst
5 11 (8.15%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 11 (8.15%) Network Analyst
5 11 (8.15%) Network Security Engineer
5 11 (8.15%) Network Support
6 10 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (7.41%) Network Support Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
7 9 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.22%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.93%) Security Posture
3 7 (5.19%) PKI
4 5 (3.70%) Replication
5 4 (2.96%) Clustering
5 4 (2.96%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.22%) CMDB
6 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.48%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (27.41%) Windows
2 20 (14.81%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.70%) Linux
3 5 (3.70%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (1.48%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.48%) Windows 8
4 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.48%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (22.96%) Network Monitoring
2 24 (17.78%) ITIL
3 20 (14.81%) Service Management
4 19 (14.07%) ITSM
5 18 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (11.11%) Agile
6 15 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (10.37%) Migration
8 12 (8.89%) High Availability
8 12 (8.89%) Performance Monitoring
9 9 (6.67%) Change Management
9 9 (6.67%) Network Segmentation
10 8 (5.93%) Load Balancing
10 8 (5.93%) Patch Management
11 7 (5.19%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (5.19%) Problem Management
12 6 (4.44%) Asset Management
12 6 (4.44%) CI/CD
12 6 (4.44%) Computer Science
12 6 (4.44%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.37%) PowerShell
2 13 (9.63%) Python
3 11 (8.15%) SQL
4 6 (4.44%) Bash
5 3 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (49.63%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.93%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 29 (21.48%) CCNP
3 29 (21.48%) DV Cleared
4 12 (8.89%) CCNA
5 11 (8.15%) Degree
6 9 (6.67%) CCSA
7 5 (3.70%) CCIE
7 5 (3.70%) CISSP
7 5 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.96%) CESG Certified Professional
8 4 (2.96%) CISA
8 4 (2.96%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.96%) MCSE
8 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.22%) CCDP
9 3 (2.22%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.96%) JSP 440
1 4 (2.96%) RMADS
2 2 (1.48%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.48%) SLA
3 1 (0.74%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) GRC
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.74%) PMO
3 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (19.26%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.89%) VMware NSX
4 7 (5.19%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.19%) vSphere
5 6 (4.44%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (3.70%) Firmware
7 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.48%) XenApp
9 1 (0.74%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (12.59%) Ansible
2 15 (11.11%) vCenter Server
3 13 (9.63%) SCCM
4 9 (6.67%) FortiGate
5 8 (5.93%) SCOM
6 7 (5.19%) Cisco Prime
7 6 (4.44%) WSUS
8 5 (3.70%) CA Spectrum
8 5 (3.70%) Terraform
8 5 (3.70%) Tivoli
9 4 (2.96%) Nagios
10 3 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.22%) Iperf
10 3 (2.22%) Nmap
11 2 (1.48%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (1.48%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (1.48%) Norton AntiVirus
12 1 (0.74%) Nessus
12 1 (0.74%) OPNET
12 1 (0.74%) SCSM
Vendors
1 97 (71.85%) Cisco
2 38 (28.15%) F5
3 31 (22.96%) Juniper
4 30 (22.22%) Fortinet
5 29 (21.48%) Palo Alto
6 26 (19.26%) CheckPoint
7 22 (16.30%) VMware
8 21 (15.56%) Microsoft
9 18 (13.33%) Meraki
10 17 (12.59%) Veeam
11 11 (8.15%) LogicMonitor
12 9 (6.67%) ServiceNow
13 8 (5.93%) Dell
14 7 (5.19%) Citrix
15 5 (3.70%) Aruba
15 5 (3.70%) Splunk
16 4 (2.96%) Arista
16 4 (2.96%) NetApp
17 3 (2.22%) McAfee
18 2 (1.48%) Sophos