SolarWinds Contracts in England

SolarWinds
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SolarWinds.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 524 569
Rank change year-on-year +129 +45 -81
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 140 139 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.90% 0.66% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 95 132
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £444 £369 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £456
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +4.11% +21.67%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £599
UK median daily rate £515 £463 £458
% change year-on-year +11.35% +0.93% +22.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile - £56.68 £13.34
25th Percentile £23.80 £62.00 £20.65
Median hourly rate £28.15 £62.62 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.04% +40.71% +78.00%
75th Percentile £42.19 £63.23 £48.71
90th Percentile £57.38 £69.61 £63.57
UK median hourly rate £28.15 £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year -55.04% +40.71% +78.00%

All Vendors
England

SolarWinds is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,613 21,186 27,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.24% 41.91% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,913 14,600 19,083
10th Percentile £256 £265 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 609 793
10th Percentile £12.01 £15.19 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.50 £43.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in England.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in England.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SolarWinds in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +55 50 £519 +22.06% 2
London +90 37 £525 -4.11% 25
North of England +41 29 £515 +17.05% 4
North West +33 27 £513 +57.69% 2
South West +8 13 £435 -20.91% 6
East Midlands +21 7 £600 +84.62%
Midlands +17 7 £600 +84.62% 4
Yorkshire +11 2 £650 +34.72% 2
East of England +13 1 £350 -42.86% 5
SolarWinds
UK

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.86%) IIS
4 3 (2.14%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.86%) Azure
2 28 (20.00%) AWS
3 13 (9.29%) GitHub
4 12 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.00%) GCP
6 6 (4.29%) IaaS
6 6 (4.29%) SaaS
7 5 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (3.57%) Mimecast
7 5 (3.57%) OCI
7 5 (3.57%) PaaS
8 4 (2.86%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.43%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.43%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.71%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 89 (63.57%) Firewall
2 37 (26.43%) DNS
3 30 (21.43%) LAN
4 29 (20.71%) BGP
4 29 (20.71%) OSPF
5 27 (19.29%) Cisco ASA
5 27 (19.29%) IPsec
6 26 (18.57%) Cisco ISE
6 26 (18.57%) DHCP
6 26 (18.57%) WAN
7 25 (17.86%) VPN
8 24 (17.14%) Wireless
9 21 (15.00%) EIGRP
10 20 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
10 20 (14.29%) HSRP
11 19 (13.57%) NetScaler
12 18 (12.86%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (12.14%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (10.71%) SNMP
15 14 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.71%) MySQL
4 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) GitLab
2 4 (2.86%) Git
2 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.14%) JIRA
4 2 (1.43%) Subversion
5 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (15.71%) Public Sector
2 18 (12.86%) Finance
3 10 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.00%) Electronics
5 7 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.00%) Marketing
5 7 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.57%) Legal
7 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Law
8 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 25 (17.86%) Senior
3 19 (13.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (7.86%) Architect
5 10 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (7.14%) Network Architect
6 8 (5.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 8 (5.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 8 (5.71%) Database Specialist
7 7 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) Platform Specialist
9 5 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.57%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 5 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.57%) Lead
9 5 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.57%) Wintel Engineer
10 4 (2.86%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.14%) Analyst
11 3 (2.14%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.57%) Jinja
2 8 (5.71%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.14%) SAML
4 2 (1.43%) JSON
4 2 (1.43%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.71%) .NET
5 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.71%) LDAP
5 1 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.14%) Data Centre
2 17 (12.14%) PKI
3 11 (7.86%) Clustering
4 9 (6.43%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.71%) Replication
6 7 (5.00%) NHS
7 4 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.43%) CMDB
9 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.43%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.43%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.71%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.29%) Windows
2 19 (13.57%) Linux
3 15 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.71%) Unix
4 8 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.86%) Solaris
8 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.43%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.43%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.71%) VMS
10 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.29%) ITIL
2 24 (17.14%) Change Management
3 23 (16.43%) High Availability
3 23 (16.43%) Network Architecture
4 19 (13.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (13.57%) ITSM
5 18 (12.86%) Migration
5 18 (12.86%) Network Management
5 18 (12.86%) Network Monitoring
6 17 (12.14%) Capacity Management
7 16 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (10.71%) Task Automation
9 12 (8.57%) DevOps
9 12 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (7.86%) Computer Science
10 11 (7.86%) Data Migration
10 11 (7.86%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (7.86%) Service Management
11 10 (7.14%) Agile
11 10 (7.14%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.86%) Python
2 22 (15.71%) PowerShell
3 14 (10.00%) Perl
4 13 (9.29%) Bash
5 12 (8.57%) SQL
5 12 (8.57%) Tcl
6 2 (1.43%) VBScript
7 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (40.71%) Security Cleared
2 53 (37.86%) SC Cleared
3 52 (37.14%) Cisco Certification
4 41 (29.29%) CCNP
5 34 (24.29%) CCNA
6 17 (12.14%) Degree
7 13 (9.29%) CCIE
8 7 (5.00%) Azure Certification
8 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.57%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.86%) MCSA
10 4 (2.86%) MCSE
11 3 (2.14%) VCAP
12 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (1.43%) MCP
12 2 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) SLA
2 2 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
3 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (18.57%) Active Directory
2 25 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (10.00%) vSphere
4 13 (9.29%) Firmware
5 11 (7.86%) VMware NSX
6 6 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (2.86%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.86%) XenApp
9 3 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.43%) BitLocker
10 2 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.71%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.71%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (26.43%) Ansible
2 27 (19.29%) Terraform
3 11 (7.86%) SCCM
4 8 (5.71%) SolarWinds Orion
4 8 (5.71%) VxRail
4 8 (5.71%) WSUS
5 7 (5.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (5.00%) SCOM
6 6 (4.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (3.57%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.57%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.57%) Puppet
7 5 (3.57%) vCenter Server
7 5 (3.57%) vRealize
8 4 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (2.14%) OPNET
10 2 (1.43%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (1.43%) Nagios
10 2 (1.43%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 63 (45.00%) Cisco
2 39 (27.86%) F5
2 39 (27.86%) VMware
3 35 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 28 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 26 (18.57%) Citrix
6 19 (13.57%) CheckPoint
7 13 (9.29%) Red Hat
8 12 (8.57%) Dell
9 11 (7.86%) Juniper
10 9 (6.43%) Meraki
11 8 (5.71%) Fortinet
11 8 (5.71%) Oracle
11 8 (5.71%) Veeam
12 7 (5.00%) SAP
13 6 (4.29%) Infoblox
14 5 (3.57%) Google
14 5 (3.57%) Symantec
15 4 (2.86%) Forcepoint
15 4 (2.86%) HP