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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 360 397
Rank change year-on-year -129 +37 +73
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 138 147 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 0.75% 1.13% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 95 97
10th Percentile £306 £311 £373
25th Percentile £418 £394 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -4.95% +14.44%
75th Percentile £582 £550 £588
90th Percentile £688 £660 £634
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +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% -61.61%
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% -61.61%

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 18,468 13,012 15,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.00% 47.48% 43.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,689 8,231 9,944
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.97% -1.43%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 613 932
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.82 £17.50 £15.22
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -3.38% -30.59%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.85 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.57% -3.27% -36.65%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -30 61 £536 +42.81% 5
South West -29 21 £426 -20.74% 2
London -107 20 £500 - 4
Midlands -51 18 £500 -6.89% 2
West Midlands -63 15 £565 +6.40% 1
North of England -92 15 £439 -7.68% 6
North West -56 9 £430 +1.18% 1
Yorkshire -59 7 £519 +7.29% 4
East Midlands -12 3 £475 -26.92% 1
East of England -19 1 - - 3
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 (1.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (23.91%) Azure
2 20 (14.49%) AWS
3 7 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (5.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (3.62%) GCP
5 4 (2.90%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.90%) SaaS
6 3 (2.17%) Datadog
6 3 (2.17%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.45%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.45%) GitHub
7 2 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.45%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.72%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.72%) IaaS
8 1 (0.72%) OCI
8 1 (0.72%) PaaS
8 1 (0.72%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 66 (47.83%) Firewall
2 64 (46.38%) WAN
3 60 (43.48%) LAN
4 58 (42.03%) DNS
5 44 (31.88%) DHCP
6 41 (29.71%) BGP
7 39 (28.26%) OSPF
8 32 (23.19%) BIG-IP
9 29 (21.01%) VPN
10 27 (19.57%) Ethernet VPN
10 27 (19.57%) SNMP
10 27 (19.57%) VXLAN
11 26 (18.84%) Network Security
12 24 (17.39%) Junos
13 23 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
14 17 (12.32%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (11.59%) IPsec
15 16 (11.59%) SD-WAN
15 16 (11.59%) VLAN
16 14 (10.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.07%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.72%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (2.90%) JIRA
1 4 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.45%) Git
2 2 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 27 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.07%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.62%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.90%) Legal
6 4 (2.90%) Military
7 3 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.45%) Aviation
8 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Finance
8 2 (1.45%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (23.91%) Network Engineer
2 21 (15.22%) Senior
3 15 (10.87%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (10.14%) Consultant
4 14 (10.14%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (10.14%) Network Specialist
5 13 (9.42%) Architect
6 12 (8.70%) Management Consultant
7 10 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Network Architect
9 7 (5.07%) Administrator
9 7 (5.07%) DBA
9 7 (5.07%) SQL DBA
10 6 (4.35%) Analyst
10 6 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Lead
10 6 (4.35%) Network Manager
11 4 (2.90%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.46%) 802.1X
2 19 (13.77%) REST
3 4 (2.90%) SAML
4 3 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.17%) LDAP
5 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.72%) Loki
5 1 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.72%) SOAP
5 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (28.99%) Data Centre
2 30 (21.74%) Clustering
2 30 (21.74%) PKI
3 9 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.80%) Replication
5 7 (5.07%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.62%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.90%) CMDB
7 4 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.90%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (2.90%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.17%) CSOC
8 3 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.45%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.45%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 78 (56.52%) Windows
2 42 (30.43%) Linux
3 17 (12.32%) AIX
4 10 (7.25%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.45%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.45%) Unix
6 2 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.72%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.72%) VMS
7 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.88%) High Availability
2 41 (29.71%) ITIL
3 32 (23.19%) Observability
4 31 (22.46%) Load Balancing
5 27 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
7 23 (16.67%) ITSM
7 23 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 21 (15.22%) Network Monitoring
9 17 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (12.32%) Service Management
10 16 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (10.87%) Network Virtualisation
12 14 (10.14%) Dashboard Development
12 14 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (9.42%) Agile
13 13 (9.42%) Capacity Planning
13 13 (9.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (8.70%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.99%) PowerShell
2 38 (27.54%) Python
3 29 (21.01%) SQL
4 17 (12.32%) Search Processing Language
5 13 (9.42%) Bash
6 4 (2.90%) Perl
7 1 (0.72%) Java
7 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (65.94%) Security Cleared
2 44 (31.88%) DV Cleared
3 38 (27.54%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (25.36%) SC Cleared
5 14 (10.14%) CCNP
6 10 (7.25%) CCNA
7 9 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (5.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (5.07%) JNCIA
9 7 (5.07%) JNCIP
9 7 (5.07%) JNCIS
9 7 (5.07%) MCSE
10 6 (4.35%) CCIE
11 5 (3.62%) Azure Certification
11 5 (3.62%) Degree
12 4 (2.90%) MCSA
12 4 (2.90%) PMI Certification
12 4 (2.90%) PMP
13 3 (2.17%) CCA
13 3 (2.17%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (5.07%) NCSC
1 7 (5.07%) NIST
2 2 (1.45%) QA
3 1 (0.72%) GDPR
3 1 (0.72%) GRC
3 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.72%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.72%) PMO
3 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (22.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (20.29%) Active Directory
3 16 (11.59%) VMware NSX
4 11 (7.97%) vSphere
5 10 (7.25%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (5.07%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.90%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.17%) NFS
9 2 (1.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.45%) Firmware
9 2 (1.45%) SRDF
10 1 (0.72%) Docker
10 1 (0.72%) Samba
10 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (20.29%) FortiGate
2 22 (15.94%) Nagios
3 18 (13.04%) ZABBIX
4 16 (11.59%) Netcool
5 15 (10.87%) Tivoli
6 13 (9.42%) Ansible
6 13 (9.42%) OpenView
6 13 (9.42%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 11 (7.97%) vCenter Server
8 10 (7.25%) SCOM
9 9 (6.52%) Terraform
10 7 (5.07%) WMI
11 5 (3.62%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (3.62%) Kubernetes
11 5 (3.62%) SCCM
12 4 (2.90%) Grafana
13 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (2.17%) Prometheus
13 3 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (2.17%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 85 (61.59%) Cisco
2 55 (39.86%) Splunk
3 43 (31.16%) F5
4 37 (26.81%) VMware
5 36 (26.09%) Juniper
6 34 (24.64%) Palo Alto
7 26 (18.84%) Microsoft
8 22 (15.94%) Extreme Networks
9 21 (15.22%) ServiceNow
10 18 (13.04%) BMC
10 18 (13.04%) Fortinet
11 14 (10.14%) HP
11 14 (10.14%) IBM
12 12 (8.70%) CheckPoint
13 10 (7.25%) Meraki
14 9 (6.52%) Aruba
15 7 (5.07%) NetApp
15 7 (5.07%) Veeam
16 6 (4.35%) RedGate
17 4 (2.90%) Clearswift