SolarWinds Contracts in England

SolarWinds
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SolarWinds.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 513 569
Rank change year-on-year +111 +56 -90
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 140 140 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.89% 0.66% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 96 136
10th Percentile £333 £313 £300
25th Percentile £448 £372 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £456
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +1.37% +21.67%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £594
UK median daily rate £515 £456 £463
% change year-on-year +12.88% -1.35% +23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile - £56.68 £13.34
25th Percentile £23.80 £62.00 £20.65
Median hourly rate £28.15 £62.62 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.04% +40.71% +78.00%
75th Percentile £42.19 £63.23 £48.71
90th Percentile £57.38 £69.61 £63.57
UK median hourly rate £28.15 £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year -55.04% +40.71% +78.00%

All Vendors
England

SolarWinds is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,712 21,142 27,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.24% 41.90% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,976 14,563 19,066
10th Percentile £256 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,011 600 795
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.20 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.32 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £39.58 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% +88.45% -3.45%
75th Percentile £56.37 £64.63 £44.03
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £22.40 £43.81 £21.02
% change year-on-year -48.86% +108.40% -6.24%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in England.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in England.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SolarWinds in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

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 30 April 2024. 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 +46 50 £519 +23.88% 2
London +92 38 £525 -4.11% 25
North of England +41 29 £515 +17.05% 3
North West +37 27 £513 +57.69% 1
South West -5 12 £535 -2.73% 6
Midlands +28 7 £600 +84.62% 4
East Midlands +22 7 £600 +84.62% 1
Yorkshire +16 2 £650 +47.73% 2
East of England +7 1 £350 -42.86% 5
SolarWinds
UK

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.86%) IIS
4 3 (2.14%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.86%) Azure
2 28 (20.00%) AWS
3 13 (9.29%) GitHub
4 11 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.00%) GCP
6 6 (4.29%) IaaS
6 6 (4.29%) SaaS
7 5 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (3.57%) Mimecast
7 5 (3.57%) OCI
7 5 (3.57%) PaaS
8 4 (2.86%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.43%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.43%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.71%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 90 (64.29%) Firewall
2 36 (25.71%) DNS
3 29 (20.71%) BGP
3 29 (20.71%) LAN
3 29 (20.71%) OSPF
4 27 (19.29%) Cisco ASA
4 27 (19.29%) IPsec
5 26 (18.57%) Cisco ISE
6 25 (17.86%) DHCP
6 25 (17.86%) WAN
7 24 (17.14%) VPN
7 24 (17.14%) Wireless
8 21 (15.00%) EIGRP
9 20 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
9 20 (14.29%) HSRP
10 19 (13.57%) NetScaler
11 17 (12.14%) Cisco Firepower
11 17 (12.14%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (10.71%) SNMP
13 14 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.71%) MySQL
4 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) GitLab
2 4 (2.86%) Git
2 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.14%) JIRA
4 2 (1.43%) Subversion
5 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
General
1 21 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 19 (13.57%) Finance
3 10 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.00%) Electronics
5 7 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.00%) Marketing
5 7 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.57%) Legal
7 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Law
8 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (57.86%) Network Engineer
2 25 (17.86%) Senior
3 19 (13.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (7.86%) Architect
5 10 (7.14%) Network Architect
6 9 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Cisco Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Database Specialist
8 7 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Platform Specialist
10 5 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Lead
10 5 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Wintel Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Support Engineer
12 3 (2.14%) Analyst
12 3 (2.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.57%) Jinja
2 8 (5.71%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.14%) SAML
4 2 (1.43%) JSON
4 2 (1.43%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.71%) .NET
5 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.71%) LDAP
5 1 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.14%) Data Centre
2 17 (12.14%) PKI
3 11 (7.86%) Clustering
4 9 (6.43%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.71%) Replication
6 7 (5.00%) NHS
7 4 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.43%) CMDB
9 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.43%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.43%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.71%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.57%) Windows
2 19 (13.57%) Linux
3 14 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.71%) Unix
4 8 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.86%) Solaris
8 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.43%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.43%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.71%) VMS
10 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.57%) ITIL
2 24 (17.14%) Change Management
3 23 (16.43%) High Availability
3 23 (16.43%) Network Architecture
4 19 (13.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (13.57%) ITSM
5 18 (12.86%) Migration
5 18 (12.86%) Network Management
5 18 (12.86%) Network Monitoring
6 17 (12.14%) Capacity Management
7 15 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (10.71%) Task Automation
8 12 (8.57%) DevOps
8 12 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (7.86%) Computer Science
9 11 (7.86%) Data Migration
9 11 (7.86%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (7.86%) Service Management
10 10 (7.14%) Agile
10 10 (7.14%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.57%) Python
2 22 (15.71%) PowerShell
3 14 (10.00%) Perl
4 13 (9.29%) Bash
5 12 (8.57%) SQL
5 12 (8.57%) Tcl
6 2 (1.43%) VBScript
7 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (37.14%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 42 (30.00%) CCNP
4 33 (23.57%) CCNA
5 17 (12.14%) Degree
6 14 (10.00%) CCIE
7 7 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.57%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.14%) MCSA
10 3 (2.14%) MCSE
10 3 (2.14%) VCAP
11 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.71%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) SLA
2 2 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
3 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 24 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (10.00%) vSphere
4 13 (9.29%) Firmware
5 11 (7.86%) VMware NSX
6 6 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (2.86%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.86%) XenApp
9 3 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.43%) BitLocker
10 2 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.71%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.71%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (27.14%) Ansible
2 27 (19.29%) Terraform
3 11 (7.86%) SCCM
4 8 (5.71%) SolarWinds Orion
4 8 (5.71%) VxRail
4 8 (5.71%) WSUS
5 7 (5.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (5.00%) SCOM
6 6 (4.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (3.57%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.57%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.57%) Puppet
7 5 (3.57%) vCenter Server
7 5 (3.57%) vRealize
8 4 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (2.14%) OPNET
10 2 (1.43%) Nessus
10 2 (1.43%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.43%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 64 (45.71%) Cisco
2 40 (28.57%) F5
3 38 (27.14%) VMware
4 35 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
6 26 (18.57%) Citrix
7 20 (14.29%) CheckPoint
8 13 (9.29%) Red Hat
9 12 (8.57%) Dell
10 11 (7.86%) Juniper
11 9 (6.43%) Fortinet
11 9 (6.43%) Meraki
12 8 (5.71%) Oracle
13 7 (5.00%) SAP
13 7 (5.00%) Veeam
14 6 (4.29%) Infoblox
15 5 (3.57%) Google
15 5 (3.57%) Symantec
16 4 (2.86%) Forcepoint
16 4 (2.86%) HP