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 20 January 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
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 343 421
Rank change year-on-year -73 +78 +131
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 131 149 134
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.56% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.89% 1.23% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 103 93
10th Percentile £308 £360 £325
25th Percentile £383 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +16.76%
75th Percentile £530 £638 £650
90th Percentile £575 £715 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile - - £32.00
25th Percentile £65.75 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £65.98
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £38.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +75.00% -42.41% +4.35%

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 14,789 12,163 16,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.30% 45.94% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,725 7,325 10,418
10th Percentile £300 £290 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 695 351 721
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £13.19
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.20 £16.67
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -17.81% +13.18%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.43 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.75 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -12.73% -23.56% +18.93%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -13 39 £500 +17.65% 14
West Midlands -26 27 £316 -42.65% 4
Midlands -49 27 £316 -45.66% 5
London -31 23 £500 - 12
North of England -73 18 £335 -29.29% 1
South West -3 17 £550 +32.13%
North West -40 17 £338 -28.57% 1
East of England -13 6 £363 -37.23% 1
Yorkshire -51 1 £238 +5.56%
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 11 (8.40%) Confluence
1 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.58%) IIS
2 6 (4.58%) Skype for Business
3 5 (3.82%) Apache
4 4 (3.05%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (3.05%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (9.92%) MS Visio
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.59%) Azure
2 30 (22.90%) AWS
3 14 (10.69%) Datadog
4 8 (6.11%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.34%) GCP
6 6 (4.58%) SaaS
7 5 (3.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (3.82%) Nutanix
8 4 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.29%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.29%) PaaS
10 2 (1.53%) AWS Direct Connect
11 1 (0.76%) Akamai
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (35.88%) Firewall
2 32 (24.43%) DNS
3 27 (20.61%) Cisco ISE
4 26 (19.85%) Cisco IOS
4 26 (19.85%) WAN
5 25 (19.08%) LAN
6 23 (17.56%) Network Security
6 23 (17.56%) VPN
7 22 (16.79%) Cisco Firepower
7 22 (16.79%) Junos
7 22 (16.79%) TCP/IP
7 22 (16.79%) VLAN
8 19 (14.50%) DHCP
9 17 (12.98%) BGP
10 14 (10.69%) OSPF
10 14 (10.69%) SD-WAN
11 13 (9.92%) Wireless
12 12 (9.16%) MPLS
12 12 (9.16%) VSAN
12 12 (9.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) JIRA
2 4 (3.05%) Git
2 4 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.29%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 39 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.61%) Public Sector
3 23 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.11%) Finance
5 5 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Law
8 2 (1.53%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Retail
8 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) French Language
9 1 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 55 (41.98%) Network Engineer
2 22 (16.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 21 (16.03%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 21 (16.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (16.03%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 21 (16.03%) Support Engineer
4 19 (14.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 18 (13.74%) Network Support
5 18 (13.74%) Network Support Engineer
6 17 (12.98%) Analyst
7 16 (12.21%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (12.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 13 (9.92%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (8.40%) Server Engineer
10 10 (7.63%) Senior
11 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (5.34%) Architect
13 5 (3.82%) Security Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Switch Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.82%) REST
2 4 (3.05%) JSON
3 2 (1.53%) LDAP
3 2 (1.53%) Middleware
3 2 (1.53%) SAML
4 1 (0.76%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.45%) PKI
2 14 (10.69%) Data Centre
2 14 (10.69%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (7.63%) Clustering
4 5 (3.82%) Replication
4 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.29%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.29%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.53%) CMDB
7 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.53%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 50 (38.17%) Windows
2 37 (28.24%) Windows Server
3 27 (20.61%) Linux
4 6 (4.58%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.05%) Unix
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.76%) Solaris
7 1 (0.76%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.19%) Service Management
2 27 (20.61%) ITSM
3 24 (18.32%) Agile
4 21 (16.03%) ITIL
5 18 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (12.98%) Network Monitoring
7 14 (10.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (8.40%) Change Management
8 11 (8.40%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (8.40%) Network Design
9 10 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (7.63%) Mentoring
9 10 (7.63%) Project Delivery
10 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (6.87%) Network Virtualisation
10 9 (6.87%) Roadmaps
11 8 (6.11%) Computer Science
11 8 (6.11%) Critical Thinking
11 8 (6.11%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (6.11%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.79%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.21%) Python
3 8 (6.11%) SQL
4 7 (5.34%) Bash
4 7 (5.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 63 (48.09%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.90%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (22.14%) DV Cleared
4 27 (20.61%) CCNP
5 26 (19.85%) SC Cleared
6 17 (12.98%) CCNA
7 13 (9.92%) Degree
8 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (6.11%) MCSE
10 6 (4.58%) CCIE
10 6 (4.58%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (3.82%) Master's Degree
12 4 (3.05%) CISSP
12 4 (3.05%) JNCIS
13 3 (2.29%) CCDP
13 3 (2.29%) CCSP
13 3 (2.29%) MCSA
13 3 (2.29%) OCA
13 3 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (2.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.82%) GDPR
3 4 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.05%) NIST
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) QA
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (34.35%) Active Directory
2 41 (31.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (26.72%) VMware NSX
4 15 (11.45%) vSphere
5 12 (9.16%) Hyper-V
6 7 (5.34%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (3.82%) Firmware
7 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.76%) KVM
8 1 (0.76%) RHEV
8 1 (0.76%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (22.14%) vCenter Server
2 24 (18.32%) Ansible
3 18 (13.74%) Terraform
4 14 (10.69%) Nagios
5 13 (9.92%) vRealize
6 12 (9.16%) SCCM
6 12 (9.16%) VxRail
7 9 (6.87%) WSUS
8 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (3.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (3.05%) Pingdom
11 3 (2.29%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (2.29%) FortiGate
11 3 (2.29%) Iperf
11 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (2.29%) Nmap
11 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.53%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 98 (74.81%) Cisco
2 45 (34.35%) VMware
3 33 (25.19%) Juniper
4 25 (19.08%) Palo Alto
5 23 (17.56%) Veeam
6 22 (16.79%) Fortinet
7 21 (16.03%) Microsoft
8 17 (12.98%) Dell
9 16 (12.21%) F5
10 15 (11.45%) CheckPoint
10 15 (11.45%) Commvault
11 14 (10.69%) AppDynamics
11 14 (10.69%) IBM
12 12 (9.16%) HP
13 10 (7.63%) Meraki
14 8 (6.11%) ServiceNow
15 6 (4.58%) Splunk
16 5 (3.82%) Aruba
16 5 (3.82%) Broadcom
16 5 (3.82%) LogicMonitor