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 16 November 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
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 373 426
Rank change year-on-year -29 +53 +136
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 134 146 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.47% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.94% 1.04% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 88 106
10th Percentile £335 £309 £325
25th Percentile £423 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -6.80% +9.89%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £600
90th Percentile £630 £706 £694
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.05% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile £58.15 - £34.20
25th Percentile £61.00 - £57.37
Median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +179.41% -63.93% +15.75%
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £30.90 £65.98
% change year-on-year +115.21% -53.17% +15.75%

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 14,309 14,049 17,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.62% 45.13% 44.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,205 8,447 11,843
10th Percentile £285 £300 £253
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 710 439 630
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.43 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -21.79% +73.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.90% -31.57% +74.51%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 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
South East +2 40 £500 +17.65% 28
London +3 29 £500 -2.44% 29
West Midlands -9 25 £445 -9.41% 8
Midlands -33 25 £445 -15.24% 10
North of England -53 20 £475 +1.33% 7
South West +10 16 £550 +32.13% 6
Yorkshire -30 12 £482 +114.33% 1
North West -49 8 £475 - 4
East of England -16 1 £400 -30.74% 4
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 12 (8.96%) Confluence
2 10 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (7.46%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.48%) Skype for Business
4 4 (2.99%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.73%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.39%) Azure
2 25 (18.66%) AWS
3 10 (7.46%) Datadog
4 7 (5.22%) Akamai
5 6 (4.48%) GCP
6 5 (3.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.99%) SaaS
8 3 (2.24%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.75%) IaaS
9 1 (0.75%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (41.79%) Firewall
2 49 (36.57%) Cisco ISE
3 31 (23.13%) BGP
3 31 (23.13%) DNS
4 29 (21.64%) WAN
5 28 (20.90%) OSPF
6 26 (19.40%) Cisco IOS
6 26 (19.40%) VLAN
7 25 (18.66%) Cisco Firepower
8 24 (17.91%) Network Security
9 23 (17.16%) SD-WAN
9 23 (17.16%) Wireless
10 21 (15.67%) DHCP
10 21 (15.67%) Junos
11 20 (14.93%) VPN
12 19 (14.18%) LAN
13 18 (13.43%) Cisco Nexus
14 17 (12.69%) TCP/IP
15 15 (11.19%) Wireshark
16 14 (10.45%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) JIRA
2 5 (3.73%) Git
3 4 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.39%) Public Sector
3 20 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.97%) Finance
5 4 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.24%) Banking
6 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.49%) Law
7 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.75%) Advertising
8 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.75%) French Language
8 1 (0.75%) Legal
8 1 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 66 (49.25%) Network Engineer
2 25 (18.66%) Support Engineer
3 21 (15.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 19 (14.18%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 17 (12.69%) Network Support
6 17 (12.69%) Network Support Engineer
7 16 (11.94%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (11.94%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 15 (11.19%) Analyst
9 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (7.46%) Security Engineer
11 9 (6.72%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 9 (6.72%) Wintel Engineer
12 8 (5.97%) Network Security Engineer
12 8 (5.97%) Senior
13 7 (5.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 7 (5.22%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.49%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.42%) Data Centre
2 13 (9.70%) PKI
3 10 (7.46%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.73%) Replication
5 4 (2.99%) Clustering
6 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.24%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.24%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) CMDB
8 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 43 (32.09%) Windows
2 27 (20.15%) Windows Server
3 22 (16.42%) Linux
4 6 (4.48%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.24%) Unix
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.75%) Solaris
7 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.13%) Service Management
2 29 (21.64%) ITSM
3 19 (14.18%) Agile
3 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (13.43%) ITIL
5 17 (12.69%) Network Monitoring
6 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (8.21%) High Availability
8 10 (7.46%) Performance Monitoring
9 9 (6.72%) Mentoring
9 9 (6.72%) Network Design
9 9 (6.72%) Project Delivery
10 8 (5.97%) Change Management
10 8 (5.97%) Computer Science
10 8 (5.97%) Critical Thinking
10 8 (5.97%) Load Balancing
10 8 (5.97%) Migration
10 8 (5.97%) Network Segmentation
10 8 (5.97%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (5.97%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.67%) PowerShell
2 20 (14.93%) Python
3 8 (5.97%) Bash
4 7 (5.22%) Perl
4 7 (5.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (54.48%) Security Cleared
2 35 (26.12%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (25.37%) DV Cleared
4 31 (23.13%) SC Cleared
5 29 (21.64%) CCNP
6 14 (10.45%) CCNA
7 13 (9.70%) Degree
8 8 (5.97%) MCSE
8 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (5.22%) CCIE
10 6 (4.48%) CCSA
10 6 (4.48%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (3.73%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.99%) CISSP
13 3 (2.24%) CCDP
13 3 (2.24%) CCSP
13 3 (2.24%) MCSA
13 3 (2.24%) OCA
13 3 (2.24%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (2.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) GDPR
1 6 (4.48%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.99%) NIST
3 2 (1.49%) SLA
4 1 (0.75%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.75%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (23.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (23.13%) VMware NSX
3 30 (22.39%) Active Directory
4 13 (9.70%) vSphere
5 7 (5.22%) Firmware
5 7 (5.22%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (2.99%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.75%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (20.90%) vCenter Server
2 22 (16.42%) Ansible
3 14 (10.45%) SCCM
4 9 (6.72%) FortiGate
4 9 (6.72%) Terraform
4 9 (6.72%) vRealize
4 9 (6.72%) VxRail
4 9 (6.72%) WSUS
5 7 (5.22%) SCOM
6 5 (3.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.99%) CA Spectrum
8 3 (2.24%) Iperf
8 3 (2.24%) Nagios
8 3 (2.24%) Nmap
8 3 (2.24%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.24%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.49%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.49%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (1.49%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 105 (78.36%) Cisco
2 39 (29.10%) Juniper
2 39 (29.10%) VMware
3 35 (26.12%) F5
4 28 (20.90%) Fortinet
5 23 (17.16%) Palo Alto
6 22 (16.42%) Veeam
7 21 (15.67%) CheckPoint
7 21 (15.67%) Microsoft
8 15 (11.19%) Meraki
9 14 (10.45%) Dell
9 14 (10.45%) LogicMonitor
10 10 (7.46%) AppDynamics
10 10 (7.46%) Commvault
10 10 (7.46%) IBM
11 8 (5.97%) HP
12 7 (5.22%) ServiceNow
12 7 (5.22%) Splunk
13 5 (3.73%) Oracle
14 4 (2.99%) NetApp