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 3 December 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 368 428
Rank change year-on-year -40 +60 +145
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 129 144 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 1.04% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 85 89
10th Percentile £335 £300 £319
25th Percentile £429 £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £540
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -13.52% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £638
90th Percentile £628 £710 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £471 £525
% change year-on-year +6.16% -10.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile - - £34.20
25th Percentile £65.75 - £57.37
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £65.98
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £38.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +75.00% -42.41% +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 14,695 13,853 17,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.56% 45.50% 44.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,532 8,375 11,194
10th Percentile £287 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 427 611
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £64.08
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.92% -33.97% +73.08%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 -6 34 £500 +19.05% 27
London -2 31 £500 -4.63% 3
West Midlands -15 25 £413 -21.43% 7
Midlands -27 25 £413 -25.00% 9
North of England -63 19 £475 - 6
South West +4 17 £550 +32.13% 6
Yorkshire -23 11 £490 +117.56%
North West -50 8 £475 - 5
East of England -16 2 £363 -37.23%
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 10 (7.75%) Confluence
1 10 (7.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (7.75%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.65%) Skype for Business
3 4 (3.10%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.55%) Apache
4 2 (1.55%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.55%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (4.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.81%) Azure
2 27 (20.93%) AWS
3 13 (10.08%) Datadog
4 7 (5.43%) Akamai
5 6 (4.65%) GCP
6 5 (3.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (3.10%) SaaS
7 4 (3.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.33%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.55%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.55%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.55%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.78%) IaaS
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (41.09%) Firewall
2 45 (34.88%) Cisco ISE
3 29 (22.48%) BGP
3 29 (22.48%) DNS
4 28 (21.71%) WAN
5 26 (20.16%) Cisco Firepower
5 26 (20.16%) Cisco IOS
5 26 (20.16%) OSPF
6 23 (17.83%) Wireless
7 22 (17.05%) Junos
8 21 (16.28%) SD-WAN
8 21 (16.28%) VLAN
9 19 (14.73%) DHCP
9 19 (14.73%) Network Security
10 18 (13.95%) LAN
11 17 (13.18%) Cisco Nexus
12 15 (11.63%) VPN
12 15 (11.63%) Wireshark
13 14 (10.85%) TCP/IP
14 13 (10.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Git
2 4 (3.10%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.10%) JIRA
3 3 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 34 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.71%) Public Sector
3 20 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.75%) Finance
5 4 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Banking
6 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Advertising
8 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.78%) French Language
8 1 (0.78%) Law
8 1 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 62 (48.06%) Network Engineer
2 22 (17.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 21 (16.28%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 21 (16.28%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (16.28%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 21 (16.28%) Support Engineer
4 20 (15.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 17 (13.18%) Analyst
5 17 (13.18%) Network Support
5 17 (13.18%) Network Support Engineer
6 16 (12.40%) 3rd Line Support
6 16 (12.40%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 12 (9.30%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 11 (8.53%) Security Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Network Security Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Senior
10 7 (5.43%) Wintel Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Cisco Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.33%) REST
2 2 (1.55%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.55%) JSON
3 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.28%) Data Centre
2 14 (10.85%) PKI
3 13 (10.08%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.88%) Replication
5 4 (3.10%) Clustering
6 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.33%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 42 (32.56%) Windows
2 30 (23.26%) Windows Server
3 25 (19.38%) Linux
4 6 (4.65%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.33%) Unix
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.78%) Solaris
7 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (24.03%) Service Management
2 26 (20.16%) ITSM
3 19 (14.73%) Agile
3 19 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (11.63%) Network Monitoring
5 13 (10.08%) ITIL
6 11 (8.53%) High Availability
7 9 (6.98%) Change Management
7 9 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (6.98%) Mentoring
7 9 (6.98%) Network Design
7 9 (6.98%) Network Virtualisation
7 9 (6.98%) Performance Monitoring
7 9 (6.98%) Project Delivery
8 8 (6.20%) Computer Science
8 8 (6.20%) Critical Thinking
8 8 (6.20%) Network Segmentation
8 8 (6.20%) System Testing
9 7 (5.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.73%) Python
2 17 (13.18%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.43%) Bash
3 7 (5.43%) Perl
3 7 (5.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (53.49%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.36%) Cisco Certification
3 32 (24.81%) DV Cleared
4 30 (23.26%) SC Cleared
5 29 (22.48%) CCNP
6 13 (10.08%) CCNA
6 13 (10.08%) Degree
7 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (6.20%) MCSE
9 7 (5.43%) CCIE
10 6 (4.65%) CCSA
10 6 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (3.88%) Master's Degree
12 4 (3.10%) CISSP
13 3 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (2.33%) AWS Certification
13 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
13 3 (2.33%) OCA
13 3 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) GDPR
1 6 (4.65%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.10%) NIST
3 2 (1.55%) SLA
4 1 (0.78%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.78%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (25.58%) Active Directory
3 32 (24.81%) VMware NSX
4 13 (10.08%) vSphere
5 8 (6.20%) Firmware
6 7 (5.43%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (3.10%) Hyper-V
8 4 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.78%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (22.48%) vCenter Server
2 19 (14.73%) Ansible
3 12 (9.30%) vRealize
4 11 (8.53%) SCCM
4 11 (8.53%) VxRail
5 10 (7.75%) Terraform
5 10 (7.75%) WSUS
6 9 (6.98%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.10%) CA Spectrum
9 3 (2.33%) Iperf
9 3 (2.33%) Nmap
9 3 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (2.33%) SCOM
10 2 (1.55%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (1.55%) Pingdom
10 2 (1.55%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.78%) SELinux
11 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 105 (81.40%) Cisco
2 40 (31.01%) Juniper
3 39 (30.23%) VMware
4 30 (23.26%) F5
5 27 (20.93%) Fortinet
6 22 (17.05%) Microsoft
7 20 (15.50%) Veeam
8 19 (14.73%) Palo Alto
9 16 (12.40%) CheckPoint
9 16 (12.40%) Dell
10 14 (10.85%) Commvault
10 14 (10.85%) LogicMonitor
10 14 (10.85%) Meraki
11 13 (10.08%) AppDynamics
11 13 (10.08%) IBM
12 11 (8.53%) HP
13 7 (5.43%) Splunk
14 5 (3.88%) Broadcom
14 5 (3.88%) Oracle
15 4 (3.10%) NetApp