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 October 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 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 390 389
Rank change year-on-year -131 -1 +37
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 126 130 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 0.96% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 95 76
10th Percentile £400 £375 £306
25th Percentile £450 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £556
90th Percentile £683 £645 £685
UK median daily rate £538 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £47.57 £58.15 -
25th Percentile £58.13 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +179.41% -63.93%
75th Percentile - £67.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +3.38% +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 19,526 13,473 14,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.68% 47.86% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,932 8,580 8,572
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -3.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £626
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 652 502
10th Percentile £13.91 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.56 £18.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.04 £35.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -28.83% -20.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.96 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £24.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year -2.50% -24.82% -24.83%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -59 42 £538 +7.50% 5
Midlands -39 21 £575 +16.46% 4
London -94 21 £450 -7.69% 2
West Midlands -37 19 £575 +16.46% 4
South West -41 14 £685 +24.55% 6
North of England -84 14 £400 -15.79% 5
East of England -19 10 - - 2
North West -51 6 £400 -15.79% 3
North East -32 5 £225 -55.00% 1
Yorkshire -55 3 £397 -16.95% 1
East Midlands - 2 £475 -
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 2 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.78%) Azure
2 14 (11.11%) AWS
3 8 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (3.97%) Datadog
5 5 (3.97%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.17%) IaaS
6 4 (3.17%) PaaS
7 3 (2.38%) GCP
7 3 (2.38%) GitHub
7 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.38%) SaaS
8 2 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.59%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.59%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.79%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 44 (34.92%) DNS
2 43 (34.13%) Firewall
3 39 (30.95%) LAN
4 37 (29.37%) WAN
5 32 (25.40%) Network Security
6 28 (22.22%) BGP
7 25 (19.84%) DHCP
7 25 (19.84%) VPN
8 24 (19.05%) OSPF
9 19 (15.08%) SNMP
10 18 (14.29%) TCP/IP
11 17 (13.49%) SSL
11 17 (13.49%) VLAN
12 16 (12.70%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (12.70%) SD-WAN
13 14 (11.11%) IPsec
13 14 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (10.32%) Cisco Nexus
15 12 (9.52%) HSRP
15 12 (9.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.38%) Power BI
4 1 (0.79%) Metadata
4 1 (0.79%) MySQL
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (3.97%) JIRA
2 2 (1.59%) Git
2 2 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.79%) Subversion
General
1 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.56%) Legal
4 6 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.97%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Finance
7 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Law
8 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (27.78%) Network Engineer
2 16 (12.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (10.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (10.32%) Senior
4 11 (8.73%) Support Engineer
5 10 (7.94%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 9 (7.14%) Architect
7 8 (6.35%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (5.56%) Administrator
8 7 (5.56%) Consultant
9 6 (4.76%) Analyst
9 6 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Network Architect
10 5 (3.97%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Lead
10 5 (3.97%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.52%) Terraform
2 10 (7.94%) 802.1X
2 10 (7.94%) REST
3 3 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.38%) SAML
4 2 (1.59%) LDAP
4 2 (1.59%) YAML
5 1 (0.79%) JSON
5 1 (0.79%) Loki
5 1 (0.79%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.79%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Streams
5 1 (0.79%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.87%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.14%) CMDB
3 8 (6.35%) PKI
4 7 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.97%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.17%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (3.17%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.17%) Replication
8 3 (2.38%) CSOC
8 3 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.38%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (52.38%) Windows
2 39 (30.95%) Linux
3 20 (15.87%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.76%) AIX
7 2 (1.59%) Unix
8 1 (0.79%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.79%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.33%) ITIL
2 26 (20.63%) Network Monitoring
3 24 (19.05%) ITSM
4 23 (18.25%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (17.46%) Network Virtualisation
6 18 (14.29%) Agile
6 18 (14.29%) High Availability
6 18 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 18 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 17 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (11.11%) Load Balancing
9 14 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (11.11%) Security Operations
9 14 (11.11%) Service Management
10 13 (10.32%) Capacity Management
10 13 (10.32%) Network Management
10 13 (10.32%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 24 (19.05%) Python
3 19 (15.08%) SQL
4 11 (8.73%) Bash
5 6 (4.76%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (3.17%) Perl
7 1 (0.79%) Java
7 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (54.76%) Security Cleared
2 47 (37.30%) DV Cleared
3 21 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 14 (11.11%) CCNA
5 14 (11.11%) CCNP
6 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.56%) MCSE
7 7 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (3.97%) CCIE
8 5 (3.97%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (3.97%) Degree
9 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.17%) MCSA
10 3 (2.38%) CCA
10 3 (2.38%) CISM
10 3 (2.38%) CISSP
10 3 (2.38%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (2.38%) CRISC
11 2 (1.59%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.94%) NIST
2 8 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.17%) NCSC
4 3 (2.38%) GDPR
4 3 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.79%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (34.13%) Active Directory
2 42 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (14.29%) vSphere
4 16 (12.70%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (11.90%) VMware NSX
6 9 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (3.17%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.59%) Docker
8 2 (1.59%) Firmware
8 2 (1.59%) NFS
9 1 (0.79%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.79%) Samba
9 1 (0.79%) SRDF
9 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (17.46%) Nagios
2 21 (16.67%) SCOM
3 17 (13.49%) vCenter Server
4 10 (7.94%) Ansible
5 8 (6.35%) WMI
5 8 (6.35%) ZABBIX
6 6 (4.76%) FortiGate
6 6 (4.76%) Grafana
6 6 (4.76%) SCCM
7 5 (3.97%) Netcool
7 5 (3.97%) Tivoli
8 4 (3.17%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (3.17%) Kubernetes
8 4 (3.17%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (2.38%) NetBackup
9 3 (2.38%) OpenView
9 3 (2.38%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 2 (1.59%) vMotion
10 2 (1.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (51.59%) Cisco
2 53 (42.06%) VMware
3 33 (26.19%) Palo Alto
4 31 (24.60%) ServiceNow
5 30 (23.81%) Splunk
6 29 (23.02%) Microsoft
7 23 (18.25%) F5
8 16 (12.70%) Fortinet
9 12 (9.52%) Veeam
10 11 (8.73%) Broadcom
11 10 (7.94%) Juniper
11 10 (7.94%) Meraki
12 9 (7.14%) CheckPoint
12 9 (7.14%) Commvault
13 8 (6.35%) BMC
14 7 (5.56%) Aruba
14 7 (5.56%) Dynatrace
14 7 (5.56%) NetApp
15 5 (3.97%) Tanium
15 5 (3.97%) Xerox