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 9 October 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
9 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 384 387
Rank change year-on-year -112 +3 +45
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 129 131 136
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 0.98% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 96 76
10th Percentile £400 £375 £306
25th Percentile £450 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £591
90th Percentile £683 £644 £667
UK median daily rate £538 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £47.57 £58.15 -
25th Percentile £58.13 £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 19,239 13,411 14,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.63% 47.73% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,527 8,642
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £628
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,251 647 523
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.59 £17.98 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -28.36% -20.16%
75th Percentile £61.16 £43.23 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -24.86%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -50 43 £538 +7.50% 16
Midlands -33 22 £575 +16.46% 2
London -102 22 £450 -7.69% 31
West Midlands -37 20 £575 +16.46% 2
South West -36 14 £685 +24.55% 9
North of England -78 14 £400 -15.79% 9
East of England -20 10 - - 13
North West -53 6 £400 -13.51% 5
North East -36 5 £225 -55.00% 1
Yorkshire -49 3 £397 -16.95% 3
East Midlands - 2 £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 (1.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.91%) Azure
2 15 (11.63%) AWS
3 8 (6.20%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (3.88%) Datadog
5 5 (3.88%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.10%) IaaS
6 4 (3.10%) PaaS
7 3 (2.33%) GCP
7 3 (2.33%) GitHub
7 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.33%) SaaS
8 2 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.55%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.55%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.78%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 45 (34.88%) DNS
1 45 (34.88%) Firewall
2 41 (31.78%) LAN
3 40 (31.01%) WAN
4 33 (25.58%) Network Security
5 29 (22.48%) BGP
6 26 (20.16%) DHCP
7 25 (19.38%) OSPF
7 25 (19.38%) VPN
8 19 (14.73%) SNMP
9 18 (13.95%) TCP/IP
9 18 (13.95%) VLAN
10 17 (13.18%) SD-WAN
10 17 (13.18%) SSL
11 16 (12.40%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (10.85%) IPsec
12 14 (10.85%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (10.08%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (9.30%) HSRP
14 12 (9.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.53%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (0.78%) Metadata
4 1 (0.78%) MySQL
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) JIRA
2 2 (1.55%) Git
2 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 24 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.43%) Legal
4 6 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.88%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Finance
9 1 (0.78%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (27.91%) Network Engineer
2 16 (12.40%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (10.08%) Senior
4 11 (8.53%) Support Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 9 (6.98%) Architect
7 8 (6.20%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Administrator
8 7 (5.43%) Consultant
9 6 (4.65%) Analyst
9 6 (4.65%) Data Centre Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Network Architect
10 5 (3.88%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Lead
10 5 (3.88%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.30%) Terraform
2 11 (8.53%) 802.1X
3 10 (7.75%) REST
4 3 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.33%) SAML
5 2 (1.55%) LDAP
5 2 (1.55%) YAML
6 1 (0.78%) JSON
6 1 (0.78%) Loki
6 1 (0.78%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.78%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Streams
6 1 (0.78%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.05%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.98%) CMDB
2 9 (6.98%) PKI
3 7 (5.43%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.88%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.10%) Fibre Optics
6 4 (3.10%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.10%) Replication
7 3 (2.33%) Clustering
7 3 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.33%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (51.94%) Windows
2 39 (30.23%) Linux
3 20 (15.50%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.65%) AIX
7 2 (1.55%) Unix
8 1 (0.78%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.33%) ITIL
2 27 (20.93%) Network Monitoring
3 26 (20.16%) ITSM
4 23 (17.83%) Network Virtualisation
4 23 (17.83%) Technical Leadership
5 19 (14.73%) High Availability
6 18 (13.95%) Agile
6 18 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (13.95%) Project Delivery
6 18 (13.95%) Service Delivery
7 17 (13.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (12.40%) Service Management
8 16 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (11.63%) Load Balancing
9 15 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (10.85%) Security Operations
11 13 (10.08%) Capacity Management
11 13 (10.08%) Network Management
11 13 (10.08%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.93%) PowerShell
2 24 (18.60%) Python
3 19 (14.73%) SQL
4 11 (8.53%) Bash
5 6 (4.65%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (3.10%) Perl
7 1 (0.78%) Java
7 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (54.26%) Security Cleared
2 47 (36.43%) DV Cleared
3 22 (17.05%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (13.95%) SC Cleared
5 14 (10.85%) CCNA
5 14 (10.85%) CCNP
6 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.43%) MCSE
7 7 (5.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.65%) Degree
9 5 (3.88%) CCIE
9 5 (3.88%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.10%) MCSA
11 3 (2.33%) CCA
11 3 (2.33%) CISM
11 3 (2.33%) CISSP
11 3 (2.33%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (2.33%) CRISC
12 2 (1.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) NIST
2 8 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.10%) NCSC
4 3 (2.33%) GDPR
4 3 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.78%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.78%) PMO
5 1 (0.78%) QA
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 42 (32.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (13.95%) vSphere
4 16 (12.40%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (11.63%) VMware NSX
6 9 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (3.10%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.55%) Docker
8 2 (1.55%) Firmware
8 2 (1.55%) NFS
9 1 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.78%) Samba
9 1 (0.78%) SRDF
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (17.05%) Nagios
2 21 (16.28%) SCOM
3 17 (13.18%) vCenter Server
4 10 (7.75%) Ansible
5 8 (6.20%) WMI
5 8 (6.20%) ZABBIX
6 7 (5.43%) FortiGate
7 6 (4.65%) Grafana
7 6 (4.65%) SCCM
8 5 (3.88%) Netcool
8 5 (3.88%) Tivoli
9 4 (3.10%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (3.10%) Kubernetes
9 4 (3.10%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.33%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.33%) OpenView
10 3 (2.33%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 2 (1.55%) vMotion
11 2 (1.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 68 (52.71%) Cisco
2 53 (41.09%) VMware
3 33 (25.58%) Palo Alto
4 31 (24.03%) ServiceNow
4 31 (24.03%) Splunk
5 29 (22.48%) Microsoft
6 24 (18.60%) F5
7 16 (12.40%) Fortinet
8 12 (9.30%) Veeam
9 11 (8.53%) Broadcom
9 11 (8.53%) Juniper
10 10 (7.75%) Meraki
11 9 (6.98%) CheckPoint
11 9 (6.98%) Commvault
12 8 (6.20%) BMC
13 7 (5.43%) Aruba
13 7 (5.43%) Dynatrace
13 7 (5.43%) NetApp
14 5 (3.88%) Tanium
14 5 (3.88%) Xerox
85 SolarWinds jobs in England