SolarWinds Contracts 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 1 July 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 408 481
Rank change year-on-year +74 +73 +86
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 162 146 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 1.34% 0.92% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 94 101
10th Percentile £314 £400 £319
25th Percentile £400 £458 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +14.44% -1.10%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £569
90th Percentile £689 £634 £625
UK median daily rate £489 £515 £450
% change year-on-year -5.05% +14.44% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £56.68
25th Percentile £56.25 - £62.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £23.80 £62.62
Median % change year-on-year +141.60% -61.99% +39.14%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £69.61
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £23.80 £62.62
% change year-on-year +141.60% -61.99% +39.92%

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 12,125 15,798 20,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.28% 42.55% 42.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,684 10,006 13,821
10th Percentile £278 £275 £268
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 1,065 551
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.49 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.71 £18.56
Median hourly rate £26.02 £24.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -23.44% +46.92%
75th Percentile £51.98 £59.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +81.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in England.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 July 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 +64 57 £500 -4.76% 142
North of England +17 38 £475 -7.32% 37
South East +26 27 £463 -7.50% 45
Midlands +23 22 £546 -9.08% 11
West Midlands - 20 £540 - 9
North West -5 17 £425 -17.07% 24
Yorkshire - 17 £484 - 10
South West +45 14 £538 +0.47% 7
East of England - 4 £400 - 12
North East - 4 £550 - 3
East Midlands -7 2 £650 +8.33% 2
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 6 (3.70%) Confluence
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.62%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) nginx
4 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.14%) Azure
2 30 (18.52%) AWS
3 6 (3.70%) Akamai
3 6 (3.70%) GCP
3 6 (3.70%) IaaS
4 5 (3.09%) GitHub
4 5 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.09%) Nutanix
5 4 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.47%) PaaS
6 3 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.23%) Datadog
7 2 (1.23%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.23%) Serverless
8 1 (0.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.62%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 82 (50.62%) Firewall
2 51 (31.48%) OSPF
3 50 (30.86%) BGP
4 44 (27.16%) VPN
5 41 (25.31%) DNS
6 35 (21.60%) WAN
7 34 (20.99%) Cisco ISE
8 32 (19.75%) Network Security
9 27 (16.67%) SD-WAN
10 26 (16.05%) VLAN
11 25 (15.43%) DHCP
11 25 (15.43%) Wireless
12 24 (14.81%) EIGRP
13 21 (12.96%) MPLS
14 20 (12.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 19 (11.73%) LAN
16 18 (11.11%) IPsec
17 17 (10.49%) Cisco ASA
18 16 (9.88%) Cisco Nexus
19 15 (9.26%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.02%) JIRA
2 5 (3.09%) Git
3 3 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.23%) Subversion
5 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.62%) GitLab
General
1 37 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.58%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.26%) Finance
4 14 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.09%) Banking
6 4 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.47%) Law
6 4 (2.47%) Legal
7 3 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Electronics
8 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.23%) Marketing
8 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.62%) Military
9 1 (0.62%) Police
9 1 (0.62%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 71 (43.83%) Network Engineer
2 15 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (9.26%) Security Engineer
3 13 (8.02%) Analyst
3 13 (8.02%) Network Security Engineer
3 13 (8.02%) Principal Engineer
4 12 (7.41%) Cisco Engineer
4 12 (7.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (6.79%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (6.17%) Network Analyst
6 10 (6.17%) Principal Network Engineer
6 10 (6.17%) Support Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Architect
7 9 (5.56%) Implementation Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (4.94%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) Administrator
8 8 (4.94%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.09%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.62%) ADO
3 1 (0.62%) JSON
3 1 (0.62%) Node.js
3 1 (0.62%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.94%) Security Posture
3 5 (3.09%) Clustering
3 5 (3.09%) CSOC
4 3 (1.85%) CMDB
4 3 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.23%) Anti-Spyware
5 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.23%) SCADA
6 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.62%) PKI
6 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Replication
6 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.31%) Windows
2 22 (13.58%) Windows Server
3 15 (9.26%) Linux
4 9 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.32%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.09%) VMS
6 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.85%) Unix
8 2 (1.23%) CentOS
8 2 (1.23%) Mac OS X
8 2 (1.23%) Solaris
8 2 (1.23%) Windows 8
8 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.23%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (29.63%) Network Monitoring
2 35 (21.60%) ITIL
3 28 (17.28%) Migration
4 20 (12.35%) Agile
4 20 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (9.26%) High Availability
6 15 (9.26%) Patch Management
7 14 (8.64%) ITSM
8 13 (8.02%) Change Management
9 12 (7.41%) Performance Monitoring
9 12 (7.41%) Project Delivery
10 11 (6.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (6.17%) Network Management
12 9 (5.56%) CI/CD
12 9 (5.56%) Incident Management
12 9 (5.56%) Network Segmentation
12 9 (5.56%) Project Management
12 9 (5.56%) Service Management
13 8 (4.94%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.49%) Python
2 16 (9.88%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.17%) SQL
4 8 (4.94%) Bash
5 3 (1.85%) Perl
6 1 (0.62%) C
6 1 (0.62%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 70 (43.21%) Security Cleared
2 51 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 38 (23.46%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (16.05%) CCNP
5 18 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 11 (6.79%) CCIE
6 11 (6.79%) Degree
7 9 (5.56%) CCSA
8 7 (4.32%) CCNA
9 5 (3.09%) CCIE Service Provider
10 4 (2.47%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (2.47%) CISA
10 4 (2.47%) CISSP
11 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.85%) JNCIS
12 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.23%) JNCIA
12 2 (1.23%) MCSE
12 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.62%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.09%) SLA
2 4 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.47%) JSP 440
2 4 (2.47%) RMADS
3 3 (1.85%) GDPR
3 3 (1.85%) QA
4 2 (1.23%) NIST
4 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.62%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.62%) GRC
5 1 (0.62%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (12.96%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.79%) vSphere
4 8 (4.94%) Firmware
4 8 (4.94%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.47%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.23%) XenApp
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (17.90%) Ansible
2 15 (9.26%) ZABBIX
3 14 (8.64%) SCCM
3 14 (8.64%) Terraform
4 13 (8.02%) SCOM
5 10 (6.17%) Nagios
6 8 (4.94%) CA Spectrum
7 7 (4.32%) Cisco Prime
8 6 (3.70%) vCenter Server
9 5 (3.09%) Tivoli
10 4 (2.47%) FortiGate
10 4 (2.47%) Norton AntiVirus
11 3 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.85%) WSUS
12 2 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (1.23%) Iperf
12 2 (1.23%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
12 2 (1.23%) SELinux
12 2 (1.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (54.94%) Cisco
2 43 (26.54%) F5
3 33 (20.37%) Juniper
4 32 (19.75%) VMware
5 31 (19.14%) Palo Alto
6 26 (16.05%) CheckPoint
7 23 (14.20%) Fortinet
8 21 (12.96%) Microsoft
9 19 (11.73%) ServiceNow
10 15 (9.26%) Meraki
11 9 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
11 9 (5.56%) Red Hat
12 8 (4.94%) Nokia
13 7 (4.32%) Citrix
13 7 (4.32%) Dell
13 7 (4.32%) NETGEAR
13 7 (4.32%) Splunk
14 6 (3.70%) Arista
14 6 (3.70%) Symantec
14 6 (3.70%) Veeam