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 12 August 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 380 387
Rank change year-on-year -100 +7 +70
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 135 129 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.47% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 0.99% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 84 96
10th Percentile £303 £316 £360
25th Percentile £406 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £514
Median % change year-on-year +4.93% -7.25% +14.17%
75th Percentile £581 £543 £588
90th Percentile £640 £646 £634
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £508
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.54% +12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £43.11 - -
25th Percentile £44.86 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £50.11 £57.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.85% +141.60% -61.60%
75th Percentile £57.47 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £65.19 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.11 £57.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -12.85% +141.60% -61.60%

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 18,885 13,061 14,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.43% 47.18% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,889 8,265 9,244
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £623 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,030 631 758
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -16.98% -19.21%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.77
% change year-on-year +29.22% -15.52% -27.06%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -25 64 £538 +7.50% 8
South West -28 21 £426 -41.24% 3
Midlands -45 20 £500 -4.76% 6
London -98 18 £450 -5.26% 20
West Midlands -42 17 £565 +13.00% 5
North of England -94 9 £425 -10.53% 8
North West -54 4 £425 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire -56 4 £519 +7.29% 2
East Midlands -5 3 £475 -26.92% 1
East of England -21 1 - - 3
North East -43 1 £225 -53.85% 2
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 (2.22%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.70%) Azure
2 19 (14.07%) AWS
3 7 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.96%) GCP
6 3 (2.22%) Datadog
6 3 (2.22%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.22%) SaaS
7 2 (1.48%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (1.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.48%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.48%) GitHub
7 2 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.48%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.74%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.74%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 66 (48.89%) DNS
1 66 (48.89%) Firewall
2 65 (48.15%) WAN
3 61 (45.19%) LAN
4 49 (36.30%) DHCP
5 44 (32.59%) BGP
6 41 (30.37%) OSPF
7 32 (23.70%) BIG-IP
8 29 (21.48%) SNMP
9 27 (20.00%) Network Security
9 27 (20.00%) VPN
9 27 (20.00%) VXLAN
10 26 (19.26%) Ethernet VPN
11 25 (18.52%) Cisco ISE
12 24 (17.78%) Junos
13 18 (13.33%) SD-WAN
13 18 (13.33%) VLAN
14 15 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
14 15 (11.11%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.48%) Power BI
1 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (3.70%) JIRA
2 3 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.48%) Git
3 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 26 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (3.70%) Legal
4 5 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.96%) Military
6 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.48%) Finance
7 2 (1.48%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 21 (15.56%) Senior
3 15 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (10.37%) Consultant
4 14 (10.37%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (10.37%) Network Specialist
5 12 (8.89%) Architect
5 12 (8.89%) Management Consultant
6 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Network Architect
8 6 (4.44%) Administrator
8 6 (4.44%) Analyst
8 6 (4.44%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Lead
8 6 (4.44%) Support Engineer
9 4 (2.96%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 4 (2.96%) Lead Architect
9 4 (2.96%) Network Manager
9 4 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.96%) 802.1X
2 19 (14.07%) REST
3 4 (2.96%) SAML
4 3 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.22%) LDAP
5 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.74%) Loki
5 1 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.74%) SOAP
5 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (28.89%) Data Centre
2 30 (22.22%) PKI
3 25 (18.52%) Clustering
4 8 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.19%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.19%) CMDB
6 4 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.96%) Fibre Optics
6 4 (2.96%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.22%) CSOC
7 3 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.22%) Replication
7 3 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.48%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.48%) EMC VNX
8 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 81 (60.00%) Windows
2 43 (31.85%) Linux
3 17 (12.59%) AIX
4 10 (7.41%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.48%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.48%) Unix
6 2 (1.48%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.74%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (34.81%) ITIL
2 42 (31.11%) High Availability
3 33 (24.44%) Observability
4 31 (22.96%) Load Balancing
5 25 (18.52%) ITSM
6 24 (17.78%) Identity Access Management
6 24 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (17.04%) Network Monitoring
8 19 (14.07%) Network Virtualisation
8 19 (14.07%) Project Delivery
8 19 (14.07%) Technical Leadership
9 18 (13.33%) Service Management
10 15 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (10.37%) Agile
11 14 (10.37%) Dashboard Development
12 13 (9.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (9.63%) Service Delivery
12 13 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (8.15%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 36 (26.67%) Python
2 35 (25.93%) PowerShell
3 23 (17.04%) SQL
4 17 (12.59%) Search Processing Language
5 12 (8.89%) Bash
6 4 (2.96%) Perl
7 1 (0.74%) Java
7 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (63.70%) Security Cleared
2 45 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 38 (28.15%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (20.74%) SC Cleared
5 11 (8.15%) CCNA
5 11 (8.15%) CCNP
6 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (5.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (5.19%) JNCIA
7 7 (5.19%) JNCIP
7 7 (5.19%) JNCIS
7 7 (5.19%) MCSE
8 5 (3.70%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.70%) Degree
9 4 (2.96%) CCIE
9 4 (2.96%) MCSA
10 3 (2.22%) CCA
10 3 (2.22%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (2.22%) PMI Certification
10 3 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) NIST
2 6 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.96%) NCSC
4 2 (1.48%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.74%) PMO
5 1 (0.74%) QA
5 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (24.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (22.96%) Active Directory
3 16 (11.85%) VMware NSX
4 12 (8.89%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (7.41%) vSphere
6 7 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (3.70%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.22%) NFS
9 2 (1.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.48%) Firmware
9 2 (1.48%) SRDF
10 1 (0.74%) Docker
10 1 (0.74%) Samba
10 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 25 (18.52%) Nagios
3 18 (13.33%) ZABBIX
4 16 (11.85%) Netcool
5 15 (11.11%) Tivoli
6 13 (9.63%) OpenView
6 13 (9.63%) SCOM
6 13 (9.63%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 13 (9.63%) vCenter Server
7 11 (8.15%) Ansible
8 9 (6.67%) Terraform
9 7 (5.19%) WMI
10 6 (4.44%) SCCM
11 5 (3.70%) Kubernetes
12 4 (2.96%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (2.96%) Grafana
12 4 (2.96%) NetBackup
13 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (2.22%) SolarWinds Orion
13 3 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (62.22%) Cisco
2 58 (42.96%) Splunk
3 44 (32.59%) F5
4 41 (30.37%) VMware
5 34 (25.19%) Juniper
6 30 (22.22%) Palo Alto
7 28 (20.74%) Microsoft
8 23 (17.04%) ServiceNow
9 22 (16.30%) Extreme Networks
10 18 (13.33%) BMC
11 16 (11.85%) Fortinet
12 14 (10.37%) IBM
13 13 (9.63%) HP
14 9 (6.67%) CheckPoint
15 8 (5.93%) Aruba
15 8 (5.93%) Meraki
15 8 (5.93%) Veeam
16 7 (5.19%) NetApp
17 6 (4.44%) Broadcom
18 5 (3.70%) Citrix