SolarWinds Contracts 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 May 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 400 486
Rank change year-on-year +72 +86 +65
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 152 131 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 1.31% 0.86% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 94 102
10th Percentile £311 £327 £313
25th Percentile £413 £458 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +15.58% -5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £588 £575
90th Percentile £696 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £450
% change year-on-year -2.91% +14.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - - £56.68
25th Percentile - - £62.00
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £62.62
Median % change year-on-year - -61.99% +40.71%
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £69.61
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £62.62
% change year-on-year - -61.99% +40.71%

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 11,596 15,272 20,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.65% 41.93% 41.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,460 9,731 13,885
10th Percentile £278 £263 £263
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -3.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 1,018 570
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £14.43 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £22.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.67% -35.29% +59.10%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.12 £62.92
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £21.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +18.60% -46.91% +88.37%

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 19 May 2025.

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
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 May 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
London +66 55 £500 -4.76% 24
Midlands +40 29 £583 -2.79% 10
North of England +16 28 £473 -7.80% 16
South East +11 22 £550 +4.76% 32
West Midlands - 20 £551 - 4
North West +3 18 £425 -17.07% 8
South West +45 13 £531 -0.70% 7
East Midlands +14 9 £650 +8.38% 5
Yorkshire - 6 £478 - 5
North East - 4 £550 - 3
East of England +24 3 £466 +33.21% 4
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 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.97%) Confluence
2 3 (1.97%) IIS
3 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.66%) nginx
4 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.68%) Azure
2 29 (19.08%) AWS
3 7 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.95%) GCP
4 6 (3.95%) GitHub
4 6 (3.95%) IaaS
5 5 (3.29%) Nutanix
6 4 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.63%) PaaS
7 3 (1.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.97%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.32%) Akamai
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.32%) Datadog
8 2 (1.32%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.32%) Serverless
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 77 (50.66%) Firewall
2 45 (29.61%) OSPF
3 41 (26.97%) DNS
3 41 (26.97%) VPN
4 40 (26.32%) BGP
5 29 (19.08%) WAN
6 22 (14.47%) IPsec
6 22 (14.47%) MPLS
6 22 (14.47%) Network Security
7 21 (13.82%) LAN
8 20 (13.16%) DHCP
8 20 (13.16%) VLAN
9 19 (12.50%) Wireless
10 17 (11.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 16 (10.53%) EIGRP
11 16 (10.53%) HSRP
11 16 (10.53%) SD-WAN
12 15 (9.87%) Cisco ISE
13 14 (9.21%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (8.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.29%) JIRA
2 4 (2.63%) Git
2 4 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.32%) Subversion
4 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.66%) GitLab
General
1 31 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.16%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.87%) Finance
4 7 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.95%) Law
5 6 (3.95%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.63%) Electronics
6 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.63%) Marketing
7 3 (1.97%) Banking
7 3 (1.97%) Legal
8 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.66%) Back Office
9 1 (0.66%) Military
9 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Police
9 1 (0.66%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 57 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 17 (11.18%) Architect
3 15 (9.87%) Principal Engineer
4 12 (7.89%) Analyst
4 12 (7.89%) Network Architect
5 11 (7.24%) Principal Network Engineer
6 10 (6.58%) Network Security Engineer
6 10 (6.58%) Security Engineer
7 9 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.26%) Senior
9 7 (4.61%) Cisco Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Network Analyst
10 6 (3.95%) Administrator
11 5 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) Implementation Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) Network Implementation Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) Principal Security Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.29%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.66%) ADO
3 1 (0.66%) JSON
3 1 (0.66%) Node.js
3 1 (0.66%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.58%) CSOC
3 6 (3.95%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.29%) Clustering
5 4 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.97%) CMDB
6 3 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.32%) Anti-Spyware
7 2 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.32%) NHS
7 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.32%) SCADA
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.66%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (27.63%) Windows
2 25 (16.45%) Linux
3 22 (14.47%) Windows Server
4 15 (9.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (6.58%) VMS
6 8 (5.26%) Windows 10
7 5 (3.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.63%) Unix
9 3 (1.97%) CentOS
10 2 (1.32%) Mac OS X
10 2 (1.32%) Solaris
10 2 (1.32%) Windows 8
10 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.32%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.61%) Network Monitoring
2 30 (19.74%) Migration
3 29 (19.08%) ITIL
4 16 (10.53%) Agile
5 15 (9.87%) SIEM
6 13 (8.55%) Change Management
6 13 (8.55%) High Availability
6 13 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (8.55%) Project Delivery
7 12 (7.89%) Configuration Management
7 12 (7.89%) Patch Management
8 11 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (7.24%) Network Management
9 10 (6.58%) Event Correlation
9 10 (6.58%) Incident Management
10 9 (5.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (5.92%) Network Architecture
11 8 (5.26%) CI/CD
11 8 (5.26%) ITSM
11 8 (5.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.16%) Python
2 14 (9.21%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.89%) SQL
4 7 (4.61%) Bash
5 3 (1.97%) Perl
6 1 (0.66%) C
6 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 65 (42.76%) Security Cleared
2 53 (34.87%) SC Cleared
3 37 (24.34%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (17.11%) CCNP
5 15 (9.87%) CCIE
6 13 (8.55%) DV Cleared
7 12 (7.89%) Degree
8 9 (5.92%) CCNA
9 7 (4.61%) CCSA
10 5 (3.29%) CCIE Service Provider
11 4 (2.63%) CESG Certified Professional
11 4 (2.63%) CISA
11 4 (2.63%) CISSP
11 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.97%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.32%) MCSE
13 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.66%) MCSA
14 1 (0.66%) OCA
14 1 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.63%) JSP 440
1 4 (2.63%) RMADS
1 4 (2.63%) SLA
2 3 (1.97%) NIST
2 3 (1.97%) QA
3 2 (1.32%) GDPR
3 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.66%) GRC
4 1 (0.66%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.66%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 21 (13.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.26%) vSphere
4 7 (4.61%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.29%) Firmware
5 5 (3.29%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.32%) XenApp
8 1 (0.66%) Docker
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 24 (15.79%) Ansible
2 17 (11.18%) ZABBIX
3 14 (9.21%) Terraform
4 11 (7.24%) Cisco Prime
5 10 (6.58%) Nagios
6 7 (4.61%) SCCM
6 7 (4.61%) SCOM
7 6 (3.95%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.63%) CA Spectrum
8 4 (2.63%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (1.97%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.97%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.32%) Iperf
10 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
10 2 (1.32%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.32%) Puppet
10 2 (1.32%) SELinux
10 2 (1.32%) vRealize
10 2 (1.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 84 (55.26%) Cisco
2 36 (23.68%) F5
3 34 (22.37%) VMware
4 32 (21.05%) Palo Alto
5 30 (19.74%) Juniper
6 21 (13.82%) Fortinet
7 20 (13.16%) CheckPoint
8 19 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 18 (11.84%) ServiceNow
10 15 (9.87%) Red Hat
11 11 (7.24%) Meraki
11 11 (7.24%) Splunk
12 8 (5.26%) Nokia
13 7 (4.61%) Dell
13 7 (4.61%) NETGEAR
13 7 (4.61%) Symantec
14 6 (3.95%) Arista
15 5 (3.29%) Citrix
15 5 (3.29%) HP
15 5 (3.29%) TP-LINK