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 11 September 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
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 371 402
Rank change year-on-year -136 +31 +49
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 122 140 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.50% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 1.07% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 98 75
10th Percentile £309 £335 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -3.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £547 £594
90th Percentile £653 £650 £634
UK median daily rate £525 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +9.83% -4.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - £58.15 -
25th Percentile £44.86 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £50.11 £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -24.65% +179.41% -63.93%
75th Percentile £55.66 £67.25 -
90th Percentile £57.29 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.11 £66.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -24.65% +179.41% -63.93%

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 19,342 13,094 14,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.69% 47.06% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,050 8,299 8,943
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £619 £617 £631
90th Percentile £706 £704 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,109 614 614
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.19
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.81 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.09 £64.25
90th Percentile £83.05 £69.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.80
% change year-on-year +7.36% -18.33% -27.54%

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 11 September 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
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 11 September 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 -44 46 £538 +7.50% 15
Midlands -39 22 £575 +16.46% 5
West Midlands -41 19 £575 +16.46% 3
London -97 19 £450 -7.69% 16
South West -43 18 £491 -10.77% 13
North of England -91 12 £400 -15.79% 10
North West -49 6 £400 - 6
Yorkshire -52 4 £519 +8.58% 1
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 2
North East -45 2 £225 -55.00% 3
East of England -34 1 - - 20
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 (2.46%) Confluence
2 1 (0.82%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.41%) Azure
2 15 (12.30%) AWS
3 6 (4.92%) Datadog
3 6 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.46%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.46%) GCP
5 3 (2.46%) GitHub
5 3 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.46%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.46%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.46%) SaaS
6 2 (1.64%) Azure Storage
6 2 (1.64%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.82%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 47 (38.52%) DNS
2 44 (36.07%) Firewall
3 43 (35.25%) WAN
4 39 (31.97%) LAN
5 27 (22.13%) DHCP
5 27 (22.13%) Network Security
6 24 (19.67%) SNMP
6 24 (19.67%) VPN
7 23 (18.85%) BGP
8 19 (15.57%) OSPF
9 16 (13.11%) Cisco ASA
9 16 (13.11%) SD-WAN
10 15 (12.30%) VLAN
11 14 (11.48%) IPsec
12 13 (10.66%) Cisco ISE
12 13 (10.66%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (10.66%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (9.84%) BIG-IP
13 12 (9.84%) Wireless
14 11 (9.02%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.46%) Power BI
3 2 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.82%) MySQL
4 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.82%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (4.10%) JIRA
2 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.82%) Git
3 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.82%) Subversion
General
1 27 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.74%) Legal
3 7 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.46%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.64%) Finance
7 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Law
7 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (23.77%) Network Engineer
2 13 (10.66%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (10.66%) Senior
3 12 (9.84%) Consultant
4 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (8.20%) Support Engineer
5 9 (7.38%) Architect
5 9 (7.38%) Management Consultant
6 8 (6.56%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) Administrator
8 6 (4.92%) Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) Network Architect
9 5 (4.10%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Data Centre Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Lead
10 4 (3.28%) Network Manager
10 4 (3.28%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.48%) REST
2 13 (10.66%) 802.1X
3 9 (7.38%) Terraform
4 3 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.46%) SAML
5 2 (1.64%) LDAP
5 2 (1.64%) YAML
6 1 (0.82%) JSON
6 1 (0.82%) Loki
6 1 (0.82%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.82%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.03%) Data Centre
2 12 (9.84%) PKI
3 7 (5.74%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.74%) CMDB
3 7 (5.74%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.92%) Clustering
4 6 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.28%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (3.28%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.28%) Replication
6 3 (2.46%) CSOC
6 3 (2.46%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.46%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.46%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.64%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.64%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 66 (54.10%) Windows
2 39 (31.97%) Linux
3 13 (10.66%) AIX
4 11 (9.02%) Windows Server
5 10 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.64%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.64%) Unix
7 1 (0.82%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.89%) ITIL
2 25 (20.49%) Network Monitoring
3 23 (18.85%) Network Virtualisation
4 22 (18.03%) High Availability
4 22 (18.03%) ITSM
4 22 (18.03%) Technical Leadership
5 21 (17.21%) Project Delivery
6 18 (14.75%) Agile
6 18 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (13.93%) Observability
8 16 (13.11%) Service Delivery
9 14 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (11.48%) Service Management
9 14 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (10.66%) Capacity Management
10 13 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (10.66%) Load Balancing
11 12 (9.84%) Problem Management
11 12 (9.84%) Task Automation
12 11 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.41%) PowerShell
1 31 (25.41%) Python
2 21 (17.21%) SQL
3 13 (10.66%) Search Processing Language
4 12 (9.84%) Bash
5 4 (3.28%) Perl
6 1 (0.82%) Java
6 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (61.48%) Security Cleared
2 42 (34.43%) DV Cleared
3 26 (21.31%) SC Cleared
4 20 (16.39%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (8.20%) CCNA
6 8 (6.56%) CCNP
6 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (6.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (5.74%) MCSE
8 6 (4.92%) Degree
9 5 (4.10%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.28%) CCIE
10 4 (3.28%) MCSA
11 3 (2.46%) CCA
11 3 (2.46%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (2.46%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.46%) PMP
12 2 (1.64%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (1.64%) NCDA
12 2 (1.64%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) NIST
2 5 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.28%) NCSC
4 2 (1.64%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.82%) PMO
5 1 (0.82%) QA
5 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (29.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (27.05%) Active Directory
3 16 (13.11%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (12.30%) VMware NSX
5 10 (8.20%) vSphere
6 8 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (4.10%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.46%) NFS
9 2 (1.64%) Docker
9 2 (1.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.64%) Firmware
9 2 (1.64%) SRDF
10 1 (0.82%) Samba
10 1 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (16.39%) Nagios
1 20 (16.39%) SCOM
2 17 (13.93%) vCenter Server
3 15 (12.30%) ZABBIX
4 12 (9.84%) Netcool
5 11 (9.02%) FortiGate
5 11 (9.02%) Tivoli
6 10 (8.20%) Ansible
7 9 (7.38%) OpenView
7 9 (7.38%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 7 (5.74%) WMI
9 6 (4.92%) Grafana
9 6 (4.92%) SCCM
10 5 (4.10%) Kubernetes
11 4 (3.28%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (3.28%) NetBackup
12 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (2.46%) Prometheus
12 3 (2.46%) SolarWinds Orion
13 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (51.64%) Cisco
2 44 (36.07%) VMware
3 41 (33.61%) Splunk
4 31 (25.41%) Palo Alto
5 27 (22.13%) F5
5 27 (22.13%) Microsoft
6 25 (20.49%) ServiceNow
7 16 (13.11%) Fortinet
8 15 (12.30%) BMC
9 13 (10.66%) Juniper
10 10 (8.20%) Broadcom
10 10 (8.20%) IBM
11 9 (7.38%) HP
11 9 (7.38%) Meraki
11 9 (7.38%) Veeam
12 8 (6.56%) Aruba
12 8 (6.56%) CheckPoint
13 7 (5.74%) NetApp
14 5 (4.10%) Citrix
14 5 (4.10%) Commvault