SolarWinds Contracts 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 402 513
Rank change year-on-year +58 +111 +55
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 141 140 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 1.22% 0.89% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 104 96
10th Percentile £312 £333 £313
25th Percentile £425 £448 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +13.51% +1.37%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £456
% change year-on-year +1.94% +12.88% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £56.68
25th Percentile - £23.80 £62.00
Median hourly rate - £28.15 £62.62
Median % change year-on-year - -55.04% +40.71%
75th Percentile - £42.19 £63.23
90th Percentile - £57.38 £69.61
UK median hourly rate - £28.15 £62.62
% change year-on-year - -55.04% +40.71%

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 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 1 May 2025. 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
London +53 53 £500 -4.76% 21
Midlands +43 28 £585 -2.50% 8
South East +18 22 £550 +6.02% 10
North of England +12 22 £461 -10.44% 8
North West +9 19 £425 -17.07% 5
West Midlands - 18 £551 - 4
South West +45 11 £525 -1.87% 8
East Midlands +13 10 £651 +8.42% 3
East of England +32 3 £466 +33.21% 3
North East - 3 £600 - 1
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 3 (2.13%) IIS
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.42%) nginx
2 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.42%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) CMS
3 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.99%) Azure
2 29 (20.57%) AWS
3 6 (4.26%) GitHub
3 6 (4.26%) Nutanix
4 5 (3.55%) GCP
4 5 (3.55%) IaaS
5 4 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.13%) PaaS
7 2 (1.42%) Akamai
7 2 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.42%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.42%) Datadog
7 2 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.42%) Serverless
7 2 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 76 (53.90%) Firewall
2 43 (30.50%) OSPF
3 39 (27.66%) VPN
4 38 (26.95%) BGP
5 36 (25.53%) DNS
6 28 (19.86%) WAN
7 22 (15.60%) Network Security
8 21 (14.89%) IPsec
8 21 (14.89%) LAN
8 21 (14.89%) MPLS
9 19 (13.48%) Wireless
10 18 (12.77%) VLAN
11 17 (12.06%) Cisco ISE
11 17 (12.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 16 (11.35%) DHCP
12 16 (11.35%) HSRP
13 15 (10.64%) SD-WAN
13 15 (10.64%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (9.93%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (9.93%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.42%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Git
2 4 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.13%) JIRA
4 2 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.42%) Subversion
5 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 27 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.80%) Finance
5 7 (4.96%) Law
6 5 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.13%) Legal
9 2 (1.42%) Banking
9 2 (1.42%) Electronics
9 2 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Military
10 1 (0.71%) Police
10 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 59 (41.84%) Network Engineer
2 19 (13.48%) Architect
3 15 (10.64%) Principal Engineer
4 14 (9.93%) Network Architect
5 11 (7.80%) Principal Network Engineer
6 10 (7.09%) Network Security Engineer
6 10 (7.09%) Security Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Senior
8 7 (4.96%) Analyst
8 7 (4.96%) Cisco Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Administrator
9 6 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Implementation Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Lead
10 5 (3.55%) Network Implementation Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Principal Security Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.55%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.42%) Node.js
4 1 (0.71%) ADO
4 1 (0.71%) JSON
4 1 (0.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.51%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.09%) CSOC
3 6 (4.26%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.55%) Clustering
5 3 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.42%) Anti-Spyware
6 2 (1.42%) CMDB
6 2 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.42%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.42%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.42%) NHS
6 2 (1.42%) SCADA
6 2 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (26.95%) Windows
2 26 (18.44%) Linux
3 21 (14.89%) Windows Server
4 15 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (7.09%) VMS
6 6 (4.26%) Windows 10
7 5 (3.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.84%) CentOS
8 4 (2.84%) Unix
9 2 (1.42%) Solaris
9 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.71%) Rocky
10 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (27.66%) Network Monitoring
2 31 (21.99%) Migration
3 25 (17.73%) ITIL
4 16 (11.35%) SIEM
5 13 (9.22%) Agile
5 13 (9.22%) Configuration Management
5 13 (9.22%) Project Delivery
6 12 (8.51%) High Availability
6 12 (8.51%) Network Management
6 12 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (7.80%) Patch Management
8 10 (7.09%) Change Management
8 10 (7.09%) Event Correlation
9 9 (6.38%) CI/CD
9 9 (6.38%) Incident Management
9 9 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (6.38%) ITSM
9 9 (6.38%) Network Architecture
10 7 (4.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.89%) Python
2 14 (9.93%) PowerShell
3 10 (7.09%) SQL
4 8 (5.67%) Bash
5 3 (2.13%) Perl
6 2 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.71%) C
Qualifications
1 58 (41.13%) Security Cleared
2 49 (34.75%) SC Cleared
3 37 (26.24%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (17.73%) CCNP
5 15 (10.64%) CCIE
6 11 (7.80%) Degree
6 11 (7.80%) DV Cleared
7 10 (7.09%) CCNA
8 7 (4.96%) CCSA
9 5 (3.55%) CCIE Service Provider
10 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
11 3 (2.13%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (2.13%) CISA
11 3 (2.13%) CISSP
12 2 (1.42%) HP APS
12 2 (1.42%) MCSE
12 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.71%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.84%) QA
1 4 (2.84%) SLA
2 3 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.13%) JSP 440
2 3 (2.13%) NIST
2 3 (2.13%) RMADS
3 2 (1.42%) GDPR
3 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.71%) GRC
4 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (15.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (14.89%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.96%) VMware NSX
4 5 (3.55%) Firmware
5 4 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.84%) vSphere
6 3 (2.13%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.71%) Docker
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 25 (17.73%) Ansible
2 17 (12.06%) ZABBIX
3 15 (10.64%) Terraform
4 11 (7.80%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (6.38%) Nagios
6 7 (4.96%) SCCM
6 7 (4.96%) SCOM
7 6 (4.26%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.84%) CA Spectrum
8 4 (2.84%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (2.13%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.42%) Iperf
10 2 (1.42%) Kubernetes
10 2 (1.42%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (1.42%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.42%) Puppet
10 2 (1.42%) SELinux
10 2 (1.42%) vRealize
10 2 (1.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 82 (58.16%) Cisco
2 38 (26.95%) F5
3 35 (24.82%) Palo Alto
4 31 (21.99%) VMware
5 28 (19.86%) Juniper
6 21 (14.89%) CheckPoint
6 21 (14.89%) Fortinet
7 17 (12.06%) Microsoft
8 16 (11.35%) Red Hat
8 16 (11.35%) ServiceNow
9 11 (7.80%) Meraki
9 11 (7.80%) Splunk
10 8 (5.67%) Nokia
11 6 (4.26%) Infoblox
12 5 (3.55%) Aruba
12 5 (3.55%) Dell
12 5 (3.55%) NETGEAR
12 5 (3.55%) Symantec
12 5 (3.55%) TP-LINK
13 4 (2.84%) Arista