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 27 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
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 395 390
Rank change year-on-year -108 -5 +57
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 132 129 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.46% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 0.97% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 93 74
10th Percentile £363 £375 £290
25th Percentile £442 £413 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% +0.41% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £648 £643
UK median daily rate £534 £489 £488
% change year-on-year +9.12% +0.31% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £47.23 £58.15 -
25th Percentile £55.66 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +179.41% -63.93%
75th Percentile - £67.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +3.38% +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 19,216 13,269 14,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.45% 47.52% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,871 8,446 8,740
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £622 £620 £630
90th Percentile £713 £703 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,174 632 566
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.84 £14.53
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.96 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.69 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -28.14% -20.20%
75th Percentile £63.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.90%

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 27 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SolarWinds in England over the 6 months to 27 September 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 27 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 -51 45 £538 +13.16% 11
Midlands -27 23 £575 +16.46%
London -93 21 £450 -7.69% 29
West Midlands -38 20 £575 +16.46%
South West -32 17 £613 +11.36% 11
North of England -82 13 £400 -15.79% 12
East of England -13 9 - - 20
North West -55 6 £400 -13.51% 7
Yorkshire -60 4 £519 +8.58% 4
North East -35 3 £225 -55.00% 1
East Midlands - 3 £475 -
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 2 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.27%) Azure
2 16 (12.12%) AWS
3 7 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (4.55%) Datadog
4 6 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.03%) GitHub
6 3 (2.27%) GCP
6 3 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.27%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.27%) SaaS
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.52%) IaaS
7 2 (1.52%) PaaS
7 2 (1.52%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 47 (35.61%) DNS
2 46 (34.85%) Firewall
3 42 (31.82%) LAN
3 42 (31.82%) WAN
4 33 (25.00%) Network Security
5 29 (21.97%) BGP
6 27 (20.45%) DHCP
7 25 (18.94%) OSPF
7 25 (18.94%) VPN
8 22 (16.67%) SNMP
9 18 (13.64%) SD-WAN
9 18 (13.64%) VLAN
10 17 (12.88%) TCP/IP
11 16 (12.12%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (12.12%) SSL
12 15 (11.36%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (10.61%) IPsec
14 13 (9.85%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (9.85%) Wireless
15 12 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (0.76%) Metadata
3 1 (0.76%) MySQL
3 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (3.79%) JIRA
2 2 (1.52%) Git
2 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 26 (19.70%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.30%) Legal
4 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Finance
8 2 (1.52%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 14 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (9.85%) Senior
4 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.58%) Architect
6 10 (7.58%) Consultant
7 9 (6.82%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Management Consultant
10 6 (4.55%) Administrator
10 6 (4.55%) Analyst
10 6 (4.55%) Network Architect
11 5 (3.79%) Data Centre Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Lead
11 5 (3.79%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Lead Architect
12 4 (3.03%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.85%) REST
2 12 (9.09%) 802.1X
3 11 (8.33%) Terraform
4 3 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.27%) SAML
5 2 (1.52%) LDAP
5 2 (1.52%) YAML
6 1 (0.76%) JSON
6 1 (0.76%) Loki
6 1 (0.76%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.76%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.76%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.58%) PKI
3 9 (6.82%) CMDB
4 7 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.30%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.03%) Clustering
6 4 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.03%) Fibre Optics
6 4 (3.03%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.03%) Replication
6 4 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.27%) CSOC
7 3 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.27%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (53.03%) Windows
2 41 (31.06%) Linux
3 19 (14.39%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (6.82%) AIX
6 8 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.52%) Unix
8 1 (0.76%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.09%) ITIL
2 28 (21.21%) Network Monitoring
3 26 (19.70%) ITSM
4 24 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
5 23 (17.42%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (15.15%) High Availability
7 19 (14.39%) Agile
7 19 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (14.39%) Project Delivery
8 18 (13.64%) Service Delivery
9 17 (12.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (12.12%) Service Management
11 15 (11.36%) Load Balancing
12 14 (10.61%) Capacity Management
12 14 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (10.61%) Observability
13 13 (9.85%) Network Management
13 13 (9.85%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.97%) PowerShell
2 28 (21.21%) Python
3 19 (14.39%) SQL
4 12 (9.09%) Bash
5 9 (6.82%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (3.03%) Perl
7 1 (0.76%) Java
7 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (56.82%) Security Cleared
2 47 (35.61%) DV Cleared
3 24 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (15.91%) SC Cleared
5 15 (11.36%) CCNA
6 14 (10.61%) CCNP
7 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (5.30%) MCSE
9 6 (4.55%) Degree
10 5 (3.79%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.79%) CCIE
11 4 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (3.03%) MCSA
12 3 (2.27%) CCA
12 3 (2.27%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (2.27%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.27%) PMP
13 2 (1.52%) CISM
13 2 (1.52%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) NIST
2 7 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.03%) NCSC
4 2 (1.52%) GDPR
4 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.76%) PMO
5 1 (0.76%) QA
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (31.82%) Active Directory
1 42 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (13.64%) vSphere
3 17 (12.88%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (11.36%) VMware NSX
5 9 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.79%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.27%) NFS
8 2 (1.52%) Docker
8 2 (1.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.52%) Firmware
8 2 (1.52%) SRDF
9 1 (0.76%) Samba
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (17.42%) Nagios
2 21 (15.91%) SCOM
3 18 (13.64%) vCenter Server
4 11 (8.33%) Ansible
4 11 (8.33%) ZABBIX
5 8 (6.06%) FortiGate
5 8 (6.06%) Netcool
5 8 (6.06%) Tivoli
5 8 (6.06%) WMI
6 7 (5.30%) Grafana
7 6 (4.55%) OpenView
7 6 (4.55%) SCCM
7 6 (4.55%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 5 (3.79%) Kubernetes
8 5 (3.79%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (3.03%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (3.03%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (53.79%) Cisco
2 53 (40.15%) VMware
3 35 (26.52%) Splunk
4 33 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 30 (22.73%) ServiceNow
6 29 (21.97%) Microsoft
7 25 (18.94%) F5
8 17 (12.88%) Fortinet
9 13 (9.85%) Juniper
10 11 (8.33%) BMC
10 11 (8.33%) Broadcom
10 11 (8.33%) Veeam
11 10 (7.58%) Meraki
12 9 (6.82%) CheckPoint
13 8 (6.06%) Aruba
13 8 (6.06%) NetApp
14 7 (5.30%) Commvault
14 7 (5.30%) Dynatrace
14 7 (5.30%) IBM
15 6 (4.55%) HP