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 19 June 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
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 314 395
Rank change year-on-year -146 +81 +75
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 131 167 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.67% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.75% 1.41% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 116 95
10th Percentile £302 £319 £400
25th Percentile £374 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +14.44%
75th Percentile £573 £581 £588
90th Percentile £631 £688 £634
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £515
% change year-on-year +1.63% -4.47% +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% -61.99%
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% -61.99%

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 17,476 11,820 15,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.54% 47.52% 42.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,183 7,505 10,039
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 935 532 1,062
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.50 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £26.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.42% +10.31% -40.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +35.13% +5.67% -45.13%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -40 51 £520 +12.43% 11
South West -15 21 £426 -19.81% 2
Midlands -65 20 £500 -9.26% 1
London -105 18 £500 - 4
West Midlands -67 17 £500 -9.26%
North of England -92 15 £447 -5.89% 3
North West -44 10 £430 +1.18% 2
Yorkshire -70 6 £519 +7.29% 1
East of England -28 4 £363 -9.38% 1
East Midlands -18 3 £475 -18.80% 1
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 (2.29%) Apache
1 3 (2.29%) IIS
2 2 (1.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (4.58%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.37%) Azure
2 16 (12.21%) AWS
3 9 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.11%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.58%) SaaS
6 3 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.29%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.29%) PaaS
6 3 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.53%) Datadog
7 2 (1.53%) GCP
7 2 (1.53%) GitHub
7 2 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.53%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.76%) IaaS
8 1 (0.76%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 64 (48.85%) Firewall
2 60 (45.80%) WAN
3 56 (42.75%) LAN
4 49 (37.40%) DNS
5 41 (31.30%) DHCP
6 32 (24.43%) BGP
7 31 (23.66%) OSPF
8 29 (22.14%) BIG-IP
9 27 (20.61%) Ethernet VPN
9 27 (20.61%) SNMP
9 27 (20.61%) VXLAN
10 24 (18.32%) Junos
10 24 (18.32%) VPN
11 20 (15.27%) Cisco ISE
11 20 (15.27%) Network Security
12 15 (11.45%) SD-WAN
13 13 (9.92%) VLAN
14 10 (7.63%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (7.63%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (7.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.05%) JIRA
2 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.76%) Git
General
1 28 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (3.82%) Legal
3 5 (3.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.05%) Finance
4 4 (3.05%) Law
4 4 (3.05%) Military
5 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.29%) Retail
6 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.53%) Aviation
6 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (26.72%) Network Engineer
2 20 (15.27%) Senior
3 14 (10.69%) Consultant
3 14 (10.69%) Firewall Specialist
3 14 (10.69%) Network Specialist
4 12 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (9.16%) Management Consultant
4 12 (9.16%) Senior Network Engineer
5 11 (8.40%) Architect
6 8 (6.11%) Analyst
7 7 (5.34%) Administrator
7 7 (5.34%) DBA
7 7 (5.34%) SQL DBA
8 6 (4.58%) Network Architect
8 6 (4.58%) Network Manager
9 5 (3.82%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Network Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.90%) 802.1X
2 18 (13.74%) REST
3 4 (3.05%) LDAP
3 4 (3.05%) SAML
4 3 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.53%) Middleware
6 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (30.53%) Data Centre
2 30 (22.90%) Clustering
3 27 (20.61%) PKI
4 8 (6.11%) Replication
5 7 (5.34%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.58%) CMDB
7 5 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.29%) CSOC
9 3 (2.29%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.29%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.53%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 73 (55.73%) Windows
2 38 (29.01%) Linux
3 17 (12.98%) AIX
4 14 (10.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.29%) Unix
6 2 (1.53%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.76%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.76%) VMS
7 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (29.77%) ITIL
2 38 (29.01%) High Availability
3 32 (24.43%) Observability
4 30 (22.90%) Load Balancing
5 28 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (18.32%) Identity Access Management
7 21 (16.03%) ITSM
8 20 (15.27%) Network Monitoring
9 18 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (13.74%) Service Management
10 17 (12.98%) Project Delivery
11 16 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (10.69%) Dashboard Development
13 13 (9.92%) Capacity Planning
13 13 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (8.40%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (7.63%) Migration
16 9 (6.87%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.48%) PowerShell
2 31 (23.66%) Python
3 28 (21.37%) SQL
4 17 (12.98%) Search Processing Language
5 10 (7.63%) Bash
6 4 (3.05%) Perl
7 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 81 (61.83%) Security Cleared
2 35 (26.72%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (26.72%) DV Cleared
3 33 (25.19%) SC Cleared
4 12 (9.16%) CCNP
5 10 (7.63%) CCNA
6 9 (6.87%) JNCIS
7 7 (5.34%) JNCIA
7 7 (5.34%) JNCIP
7 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (4.58%) MCSE
9 5 (3.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.05%) CCIE
10 4 (3.05%) MCSA
10 4 (3.05%) PMI Certification
10 4 (3.05%) PMP
11 3 (2.29%) CCA
11 3 (2.29%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (1.53%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.58%) NIST
3 3 (2.29%) NCSC
3 3 (2.29%) QA
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) GRC
5 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.76%) PMO
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (18.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (17.56%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.40%) vSphere
4 10 (7.63%) VMware NSX
5 7 (5.34%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.05%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.53%) Firmware
8 2 (1.53%) NFS
8 2 (1.53%) SRDF
9 1 (0.76%) Docker
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (20.61%) FortiGate
2 22 (16.79%) Nagios
3 17 (12.98%) ZABBIX
4 16 (12.21%) Netcool
5 15 (11.45%) Tivoli
6 13 (9.92%) OpenView
6 13 (9.92%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 11 (8.40%) Ansible
8 7 (5.34%) SCCM
8 7 (5.34%) WMI
9 6 (4.58%) vCenter Server
10 5 (3.82%) Cisco Prime
10 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (3.82%) SCOM
10 5 (3.82%) Terraform
11 4 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (2.29%) Grafana
12 3 (2.29%) Kubernetes
13 2 (1.53%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.53%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 81 (61.83%) Cisco
2 51 (38.93%) Splunk
3 41 (31.30%) F5
4 36 (27.48%) Juniper
5 29 (22.14%) Palo Alto
6 25 (19.08%) VMware
7 24 (18.32%) Microsoft
8 23 (17.56%) Extreme Networks
9 22 (16.79%) ServiceNow
10 19 (14.50%) BMC
11 18 (13.74%) Fortinet
12 14 (10.69%) CheckPoint
12 14 (10.69%) HP
12 14 (10.69%) IBM
13 10 (7.63%) Meraki
14 9 (6.87%) Aruba
15 8 (6.11%) Veeam
16 6 (4.58%) NetApp
16 6 (4.58%) RedGate
17 5 (3.82%) Dynatrace