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 8 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
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 379 395
Rank change year-on-year -136 +16 +64
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 124 138 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.50% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 1.07% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 96 76
10th Percentile £306 £330 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% -4.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £541 £604
90th Percentile £650 £650 £636
UK median daily rate £520 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +9.02% -4.70% +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 19,133 12,881 14,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.10% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,965 8,166 8,904
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -4.10% -
75th Percentile £619 £619 £631
90th Percentile £706 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,053 601 611
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -28.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.12 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £31.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -18.87% -27.91%

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 8 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 8 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 -57 46 £538 +7.50% 10
Midlands -46 23 £570 +14.00% 3
West Midlands -38 20 £575 +21.05% 3
London -95 20 £450 -5.26% 24
South West -39 18 £443 -24.23% 9
North of England -95 12 £400 -15.79% 11
North West -63 6 £400 - 6
Yorkshire -54 4 £519 +8.58% 2
East Midlands -11 3 £475 -26.92%
North East -41 2 £225 -55.00% 3
East of England -25 1 - - 5
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 (2.42%) Confluence
2 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.42%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (25.81%) Azure
2 16 (12.90%) AWS
3 6 (4.84%) Datadog
3 6 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.42%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.42%) GCP
5 3 (2.42%) GitHub
5 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.42%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.42%) SaaS
6 2 (1.61%) Azure Storage
6 2 (1.61%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.81%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (39.52%) DNS
2 47 (37.90%) Firewall
3 46 (37.10%) WAN
4 42 (33.87%) LAN
5 29 (23.39%) DHCP
6 27 (21.77%) Network Security
7 26 (20.97%) VPN
8 25 (20.16%) SNMP
9 24 (19.35%) BGP
10 20 (16.13%) OSPF
11 17 (13.71%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (12.90%) SD-WAN
13 15 (12.10%) IPsec
13 15 (12.10%) VLAN
14 14 (11.29%) BIG-IP
14 14 (11.29%) Cisco Nexus
15 13 (10.48%) Cisco ISE
15 13 (10.48%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (10.48%) Wireless
16 11 (8.87%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.42%) Power BI
3 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.81%) MySQL
4 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.81%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) JIRA
2 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.81%) Git
3 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 27 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.65%) Legal
3 7 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.61%) Finance
7 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Law
7 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (24.19%) Network Engineer
2 14 (11.29%) Senior
3 13 (10.48%) Consultant
4 12 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Management Consultant
7 9 (7.26%) Architect
7 9 (7.26%) Support Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Senior Network Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) Administrator
10 6 (4.84%) Analyst
10 6 (4.84%) Network Architect
11 5 (4.03%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Firewall Specialist
11 5 (4.03%) Network Specialist
11 5 (4.03%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Data Centre Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Network Manager
12 4 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.10%) REST
2 14 (11.29%) 802.1X
3 10 (8.06%) Terraform
4 4 (3.23%) SAML
5 3 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.42%) LDAP
6 2 (1.61%) YAML
7 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.81%) JSON
7 1 (0.81%) Loki
7 1 (0.81%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.81%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.55%) Data Centre
2 13 (10.48%) PKI
3 7 (5.65%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.65%) Clustering
3 7 (5.65%) CMDB
3 7 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.23%) Fibre Optics
4 4 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.23%) Replication
5 3 (2.42%) CSOC
5 3 (2.42%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (2.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.42%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.42%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.42%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.61%) EMC VNX
6 2 (1.61%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 68 (54.84%) Windows
2 40 (32.26%) Linux
3 14 (11.29%) AIX
4 12 (9.68%) Windows Server
5 9 (7.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.61%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.61%) Unix
7 1 (0.81%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.68%) ITIL
2 25 (20.16%) Network Monitoring
3 24 (19.35%) High Availability
4 22 (17.74%) Network Virtualisation
5 21 (16.94%) ITSM
5 21 (16.94%) Project Delivery
5 21 (16.94%) Technical Leadership
6 18 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (14.52%) Observability
7 17 (13.71%) Agile
8 15 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (12.10%) Service Delivery
9 14 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (11.29%) Load Balancing
9 14 (11.29%) Service Management
9 14 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (9.68%) Capacity Management
10 12 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (8.87%) Dashboard Development
11 11 (8.87%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.61%) PowerShell
1 33 (26.61%) Python
2 22 (17.74%) SQL
3 14 (11.29%) Search Processing Language
4 12 (9.68%) Bash
5 4 (3.23%) Perl
6 1 (0.81%) Java
6 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (59.68%) Security Cleared
2 41 (33.06%) DV Cleared
3 26 (20.97%) SC Cleared
4 22 (17.74%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (8.87%) CCNA
6 9 (7.26%) CCNP
7 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (6.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (5.65%) MCSE
9 6 (4.84%) Degree
10 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
11 4 (3.23%) CCIE
11 4 (3.23%) MCSA
12 3 (2.42%) CCA
12 3 (2.42%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (2.42%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.42%) PMP
13 2 (1.61%) CompTIA CySA+
13 2 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.61%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) NIST
2 6 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.23%) NCSC
4 2 (1.61%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.81%) PMO
5 1 (0.81%) QA
5 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (29.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (27.42%) Active Directory
3 16 (12.90%) VMware NSX
4 15 (12.10%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (8.06%) vSphere
6 8 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (4.03%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.42%) NFS
9 2 (1.61%) Docker
9 2 (1.61%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.61%) Firmware
9 2 (1.61%) SRDF
10 1 (0.81%) Samba
10 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (16.94%) Nagios
2 18 (14.52%) SCOM
3 16 (12.90%) vCenter Server
3 16 (12.90%) ZABBIX
4 13 (10.48%) FortiGate
4 13 (10.48%) Netcool
5 12 (9.68%) Tivoli
6 10 (8.06%) Ansible
6 10 (8.06%) OpenView
6 10 (8.06%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 7 (5.65%) WMI
8 6 (4.84%) Grafana
8 6 (4.84%) SCCM
9 5 (4.03%) Kubernetes
10 4 (3.23%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (3.23%) NetBackup
11 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (2.42%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (2.42%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 65 (52.42%) Cisco
2 44 (35.48%) VMware
3 43 (34.68%) Splunk
4 32 (25.81%) Palo Alto
5 29 (23.39%) F5
6 28 (22.58%) Microsoft
7 25 (20.16%) ServiceNow
8 16 (12.90%) Fortinet
9 15 (12.10%) BMC
10 14 (11.29%) Juniper
11 11 (8.87%) IBM
12 10 (8.06%) HP
13 9 (7.26%) Broadcom
13 9 (7.26%) CheckPoint
13 9 (7.26%) Meraki
13 9 (7.26%) Veeam
14 8 (6.45%) Aruba
15 7 (5.65%) NetApp
16 6 (4.84%) Extreme Networks
17 5 (4.03%) Dynatrace