SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

SolarWinds
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.61% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +10.77%

All Vendors
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 92 90 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 56.10% 42.86% 69.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 35 93
10th Percentile £250 £400 £358
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £618 £627 £645
90th Percentile £680 £723 £720
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 43
10th Percentile £23.32 £22.85 £20.34
25th Percentile £42.58 £35.36 £20.97
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +56.23% -12.68% +22.17%
75th Percentile £66.78 £46.18 -
90th Percentile £77.18 - £69.40
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% +1.03% +56.32%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in Lancashire

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing SolarWinds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Preston - 1 £335 -
SolarWinds
North West

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto