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 15 May 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
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 317 400
Rank change year-on-year -142 +83 +108
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 129 152 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.63% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.77% 1.32% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 105 95
10th Percentile £293 £311 £328
25th Percentile £351 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £529 £615 £588
90th Percentile £600 £696 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £42.05 - -
25th Percentile £43.11 - -
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £23.80
75th Percentile £62.29 - -
90th Percentile £68.11 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.72 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -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 16,807 11,505 15,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.26% 47.55% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,886 7,407 9,719
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% -2.82%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 458 1,005
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.84 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.64 £17.46 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.16 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -47.06%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -32 47 £500 -9.09% 8
London -99 21 £500 - 6
South West -24 19 £426 -19.81% 5
North of England -73 18 £353 -25.40% 8
Midlands -77 18 £312 -46.47% 3
West Midlands -64 17 £305 -44.74% 2
North West -36 15 £350 -17.65% 4
East of England -29 6 £363 -22.25%
Yorkshire -59 4 £519 +8.58% 2
East Midlands -36 1 £475 -26.95% 1
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 6 (4.65%) IIS
2 5 (3.88%) Apache
3 4 (3.10%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (2.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (7.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.58%) Azure
2 22 (17.05%) AWS
3 11 (8.53%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.65%) SaaS
5 5 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (3.88%) Datadog
6 4 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (3.10%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.33%) GCP
7 3 (2.33%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.33%) PaaS
7 3 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.55%) OpenShift
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
Communications & Networking
1 66 (51.16%) Firewall
2 56 (43.41%) WAN
3 54 (41.86%) LAN
4 47 (36.43%) DNS
5 39 (30.23%) DHCP
6 33 (25.58%) BGP
6 33 (25.58%) OSPF
7 29 (22.48%) BIG-IP
8 27 (20.93%) VPN
9 26 (20.16%) Ethernet VPN
9 26 (20.16%) Junos
9 26 (20.16%) VXLAN
10 22 (17.05%) SNMP
11 21 (16.28%) Cisco ISE
12 20 (15.50%) Network Security
13 18 (13.95%) VLAN
14 13 (10.08%) SD-WAN
14 13 (10.08%) TCP/IP
15 10 (7.75%) Cisco Nexus
16 9 (6.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.55%) JIRA
1 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.78%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.10%) Finance
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%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (31.01%) Network Engineer
2 14 (10.85%) Firewall Specialist
2 14 (10.85%) Network Specialist
2 14 (10.85%) Senior
3 13 (10.08%) Consultant
3 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (9.30%) Management Consultant
5 9 (6.98%) Architect
5 9 (6.98%) Senior Network Engineer
6 6 (4.65%) Analyst
6 6 (4.65%) DBA
6 6 (4.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (4.65%) Server Engineer
6 6 (4.65%) SQL DBA
7 5 (3.88%) Network Architect
7 5 (3.88%) Switch Engineer
8 4 (3.10%) Administrator
8 4 (3.10%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
8 4 (3.10%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.16%) 802.1X
2 22 (17.05%) REST
3 5 (3.88%) LDAP
3 5 (3.88%) SAML
4 4 (3.10%) JSON
5 2 (1.55%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (30.23%) Data Centre
2 36 (27.91%) Clustering
3 27 (20.93%) PKI
4 7 (5.43%) Replication
5 5 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.10%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.33%) CMDB
8 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.55%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (51.94%) Windows
2 30 (23.26%) Linux
3 17 (13.18%) AIX
4 15 (11.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.55%) Unix
5 2 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) VMS
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.91%) High Availability
2 30 (23.26%) Observability
3 29 (22.48%) ITIL
4 28 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (20.93%) Load Balancing
6 24 (18.60%) Identity Access Management
7 18 (13.95%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (12.40%) Network Monitoring
9 15 (11.63%) ITSM
10 14 (10.85%) Dashboard Development
11 13 (10.08%) Project Delivery
11 13 (10.08%) Service Management
12 12 (9.30%) Agile
13 11 (8.53%) Migration
14 10 (7.75%) Capacity Planning
14 10 (7.75%) Change Management
15 9 (6.98%) Availability Management
15 9 (6.98%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.58%) PowerShell
2 24 (18.60%) SQL
3 23 (17.83%) Python
4 17 (13.18%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (2.33%) Bash
6 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 71 (55.04%) Security Cleared
2 37 (28.68%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (24.03%) SC Cleared
4 27 (20.93%) 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
11 3 (2.33%) CCIE
11 3 (2.33%) Degree
12 2 (1.55%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.55%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.55%) PMP
13 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.33%) NCSC
1 3 (2.33%) QA
2 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) GRC
3 1 (0.78%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.78%) NIST
3 1 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (20.16%) Active Directory
2 20 (15.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.08%) Hyper-V
4 11 (8.53%) vSphere
5 9 (6.98%) VMware NSX
6 6 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.33%) Firmware
8 1 (0.78%) Docker
8 1 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.78%) KVM
8 1 (0.78%) NFS
8 1 (0.78%) RHEV
8 1 (0.78%) SRDF
8 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (25.58%) Nagios
2 26 (20.16%) FortiGate
3 19 (14.73%) Ansible
4 17 (13.18%) ZABBIX
5 16 (12.40%) Netcool
6 15 (11.63%) Tivoli
7 14 (10.85%) Terraform
8 13 (10.08%) OpenView
8 13 (10.08%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (4.65%) SCCM
9 6 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (3.88%) Cisco Prime
11 4 (3.10%) Pingdom
11 4 (3.10%) vRealize
12 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (2.33%) vCenter Server
12 3 (2.33%) VxRail
12 3 (2.33%) WMI
12 3 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 81 (62.79%) Cisco
2 47 (36.43%) Splunk
3 39 (30.23%) Juniper
4 37 (28.68%) F5
5 23 (17.83%) Extreme Networks
5 23 (17.83%) Palo Alto
6 22 (17.05%) VMware
7 19 (14.73%) BMC
8 18 (13.95%) HP
8 18 (13.95%) IBM
8 18 (13.95%) Microsoft
9 13 (10.08%) CheckPoint
9 13 (10.08%) Fortinet
10 12 (9.30%) ServiceNow
11 10 (7.75%) Meraki
12 9 (6.98%) Commvault
12 9 (6.98%) Veeam
13 6 (4.65%) AppDynamics
13 6 (4.65%) Aruba
13 6 (4.65%) RedGate