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 13 July 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
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 347 393
Rank change year-on-year -136 +46 +92
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 135 159 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.58% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 0.74% 1.23% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 107 95
10th Percentile £303 £313 £400
25th Percentile £415 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £594
90th Percentile £694 £688 £636
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £515
% change year-on-year +2.25% -5.05% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £42.05 - -
25th Percentile £43.11 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.72 £57.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.27% +141.60% -61.61%
75th Percentile £62.29 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £68.11 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £57.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -15.27% +141.60% -61.61%

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 18,360 12,945 15,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.95% 47.43% 43.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,634 8,199 10,031
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 602 1,019
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.84 £12.52
25th Percentile £19.72 £17.66 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -32.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.12 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.61 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.62% +0.60% -38.27%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -42 58 £525 +40.00% 9
South West -25 21 £426 -20.74% 2
Midlands -50 19 £500 -7.15% 3
London -105 19 £500 - 12
West Midlands -67 16 £533 -0.84%
North of England -98 15 £439 -7.68% 6
North West -60 9 £430 +1.18% 1
Yorkshire -62 7 £519 +7.29% 5
East Midlands -13 3 £475 -26.92% 3
East of England -24 1 - - 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 2 (1.48%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.96%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.70%) Azure
2 20 (14.81%) AWS
3 7 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (3.70%) GCP
5 4 (2.96%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.96%) SaaS
6 3 (2.22%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.48%) Datadog
7 2 (1.48%) GitHub
7 2 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.74%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.74%) OCI
8 1 (0.74%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 65 (48.15%) Firewall
2 64 (47.41%) WAN
3 61 (45.19%) LAN
4 56 (41.48%) DNS
5 41 (30.37%) BGP
5 41 (30.37%) DHCP
6 39 (28.89%) OSPF
7 33 (24.44%) BIG-IP
8 27 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
8 27 (20.00%) SNMP
8 27 (20.00%) VPN
8 27 (20.00%) VXLAN
9 24 (17.78%) Junos
9 24 (17.78%) Network Security
10 23 (17.04%) Cisco ISE
11 16 (11.85%) SD-WAN
11 16 (11.85%) VLAN
12 15 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
12 15 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (10.37%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.19%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.96%) JIRA
1 4 (2.96%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.48%) Git
2 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 26 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.19%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (3.70%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.96%) Legal
5 4 (2.96%) Military
6 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.48%) Aviation
7 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.48%) Finance
7 2 (1.48%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (23.70%) Network Engineer
2 18 (13.33%) Senior
3 14 (10.37%) Consultant
3 14 (10.37%) Firewall Specialist
3 14 (10.37%) Network Specialist
4 13 (9.63%) Architect
5 12 (8.89%) Management Consultant
5 12 (8.89%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.67%) Network Architect
8 7 (5.19%) Administrator
8 7 (5.19%) DBA
8 7 (5.19%) SQL DBA
9 6 (4.44%) Analyst
9 6 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Lead
9 6 (4.44%) Network Manager
10 5 (3.70%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.96%) 802.1X
2 19 (14.07%) REST
3 5 (3.70%) SAML
4 4 (2.96%) LDAP
5 3 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.74%) Loki
6 1 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.74%) SOAP
6 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.63%) Data Centre
2 30 (22.22%) Clustering
3 27 (20.00%) PKI
4 9 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.93%) Replication
6 7 (5.19%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.70%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.96%) CMDB
8 4 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.96%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.22%) CSOC
9 3 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.48%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.48%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 75 (55.56%) Windows
2 40 (29.63%) Linux
3 17 (12.59%) AIX
4 10 (7.41%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.70%) 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%) VMS
7 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.11%) High Availability
2 40 (29.63%) ITIL
3 31 (22.96%) Load Balancing
3 31 (22.96%) Observability
4 27 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (17.78%) Identity Access Management
6 23 (17.04%) ITSM
7 22 (16.30%) Project Delivery
8 18 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
9 17 (12.59%) Service Management
10 16 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (10.37%) Dashboard Development
12 14 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (9.63%) Capacity Planning
13 13 (9.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (8.89%) Agile
14 12 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (8.89%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.89%) PowerShell
2 37 (27.41%) Python
3 28 (20.74%) SQL
4 17 (12.59%) Search Processing Language
5 13 (9.63%) Bash
6 4 (2.96%) Perl
7 1 (0.74%) Java
7 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (65.19%) Security Cleared
2 41 (30.37%) DV Cleared
3 38 (28.15%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (25.93%) SC Cleared
5 14 (10.37%) CCNP
6 10 (7.41%) CCNA
7 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (5.19%) JNCIA
8 7 (5.19%) JNCIP
8 7 (5.19%) JNCIS
9 6 (4.44%) CCIE
9 6 (4.44%) MCSE
10 5 (3.70%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.96%) Degree
11 4 (2.96%) MCSA
11 4 (2.96%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.96%) PMP
12 3 (2.22%) CCA
12 3 (2.22%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (5.19%) NCSC
2 6 (4.44%) NIST
3 2 (1.48%) QA
4 1 (0.74%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) GRC
4 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.74%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.74%) PMO
4 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (21.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (19.26%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.37%) VMware NSX
4 11 (8.15%) vSphere
5 10 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.96%) 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 28 (20.74%) FortiGate
2 22 (16.30%) Nagios
3 18 (13.33%) ZABBIX
4 16 (11.85%) Netcool
5 15 (11.11%) Tivoli
6 13 (9.63%) Ansible
6 13 (9.63%) OpenView
6 13 (9.63%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 11 (8.15%) vCenter Server
8 10 (7.41%) SCOM
9 9 (6.67%) Terraform
10 7 (5.19%) WMI
11 5 (3.70%) Kubernetes
11 5 (3.70%) SCCM
12 4 (2.96%) Grafana
12 4 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (2.22%) Cisco Prime
13 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (2.22%) NetBackup
13 3 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 83 (61.48%) Cisco
2 54 (40.00%) Splunk
3 44 (32.59%) F5
4 36 (26.67%) Juniper
5 34 (25.19%) VMware
6 32 (23.70%) Palo Alto
7 26 (19.26%) Microsoft
8 23 (17.04%) Extreme Networks
9 21 (15.56%) ServiceNow
10 18 (13.33%) BMC
10 18 (13.33%) Fortinet
11 14 (10.37%) CheckPoint
11 14 (10.37%) HP
11 14 (10.37%) IBM
12 10 (7.41%) Meraki
13 9 (6.67%) Aruba
14 7 (5.19%) NetApp
15 6 (4.44%) RedGate
15 6 (4.44%) Veeam
16 4 (2.96%) Tripwire