SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in London

SolarWinds
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 8 January 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 344 334
Rank change year-on-year -11 -10 +150
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 22 23 52
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.16% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.33% 0.37% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 42
10th Percentile £433 £346 £321
25th Percentile £475 £435 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +4.85%
75th Percentile £544 £584 £628
90th Percentile £601 £624 £711
England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate - - £33.25
75th Percentile - - £35.44
90th Percentile - - £35.78
England median hourly rate £66.50 - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,676 6,270 7,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.58% 43.98% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,367 3,901 4,953
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £640 £648 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 68 109
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.86 £15.90
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% -5.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £41.85 £62.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.12 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +47.11%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SolarWinds relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in London

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in London over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in London

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SolarWinds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the London region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Central London -2 2 £523 -4.74% 1
South London - 1 £335 - 1
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.55%) Akamai
5 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 6 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (27.27%) WAN
3 5 (22.73%) LAN
4 4 (18.18%) SD-WAN
5 3 (13.64%) VPN
6 2 (9.09%) BGP
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (9.09%) MPLS
6 2 (9.09%) NX-OS
6 2 (9.09%) OSPF
6 2 (9.09%) VLAN
6 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (9.09%) Wireless
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (4.55%) Junos
7 1 (4.55%) Network Security
7 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications
7 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Monitoring Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Monitoring Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Network Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Network Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) JSON
1 4 (18.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.55%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) API Integration
3 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (13.64%) Change Management
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (13.64%) Network Design
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (9.09%) IT Asset Management
5 2 (9.09%) ITIL
5 2 (9.09%) ITSM
5 2 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Bash
2 2 (9.09%) Perl
2 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) CCNA
1 2 (9.09%) CCNP
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CCSA
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) VMware NSX
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Pingdom
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) Nagios
4 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Cisco
2 5 (22.73%) Fortinet
2 5 (22.73%) Palo Alto
2 5 (22.73%) ServiceNow
3 4 (18.18%) Moogsoft
3 4 (18.18%) PagerDuty
4 3 (13.64%) Aruba
4 3 (13.64%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
5 2 (9.09%) F5
5 2 (9.09%) Juniper
5 2 (9.09%) Meraki
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) VMware
6 1 (4.55%) Broadcom
6 1 (4.55%) Qualys
6 1 (4.55%) Ribbon
6 1 (4.55%) Splunk
6 1 (4.55%) Veeam