SolarWinds Contracts 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 353 444
Rank change year-on-year +53 +91 +53
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 53 38 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.93% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 27 33
10th Percentile £389 £308 £383
25th Percentile £425 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% +9.50%
75th Percentile £577 £538 £625
90th Percentile £660 £638 £670
England median daily rate £540 £525 £463
% change year-on-year +2.86% +13.51% +1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
England median hourly rate - £28.15 £62.62
% change year-on-year - -55.04% +40.71%

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 5,695 7,227 10,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.39% 40.53% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,736 4,950 7,441
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £653 £663 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 138 127
10th Percentile £15.91 £13.86 £16.28
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%
75th Percentile £51.20 £36.56 £57.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £64.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in London

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in London

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in London

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in London

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 1 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
Central London - 8 £573 - 2
West London +13 6 £400 -23.81%
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.77%) nginx
1 2 (3.77%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.89%) CMS
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (41.51%) AWS
2 19 (35.85%) Azure
3 5 (9.43%) GCP
4 4 (7.55%) GitHub
5 3 (5.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.77%) Datadog
6 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.77%) IaaS
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.77%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.89%) Akamai
7 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.89%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.89%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (67.92%) Firewall
2 26 (49.06%) VPN
3 21 (39.62%) BGP
3 21 (39.62%) OSPF
4 17 (32.08%) Network Security
4 17 (32.08%) WAN
5 15 (28.30%) MPLS
6 13 (24.53%) Cisco ISE
7 12 (22.64%) DNS
7 12 (22.64%) LAN
8 11 (20.75%) SD-WAN
9 10 (18.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 9 (16.98%) Wireless
11 8 (15.09%) VLAN
12 7 (13.21%) Broadband
12 7 (13.21%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (13.21%) IPsec
12 7 (13.21%) IPv6
12 7 (13.21%) Multicast
13 6 (11.32%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Git
1 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.89%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (16.98%) Finance
2 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.77%) Law
5 2 (3.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.89%) Back Office
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (54.72%) Network Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) Principal Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) Principal Network Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Network Security Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Security Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Implementation Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Senior
6 4 (7.55%) Administrator
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) Network Administrator
7 3 (5.66%) Principal Security Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Core Network Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.77%) Node.js
3 1 (1.89%) ADO
3 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.77%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (1.89%) CMDB
4 1 (1.89%) e-Health
4 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.75%) Linux
1 11 (20.75%) Windows
2 5 (9.43%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.77%) CentOS
4 2 (3.77%) Unix
4 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.89%) Rocky
5 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) Network Monitoring
2 19 (35.85%) Migration
3 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
3 8 (15.09%) ITIL
3 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (13.21%) DevOps
4 7 (13.21%) Project Delivery
5 5 (9.43%) Change Management
5 5 (9.43%) High Availability
5 5 (9.43%) Low Latency
5 5 (9.43%) Patch Management
6 4 (7.55%) Configuration Management
6 4 (7.55%) Incident Management
6 4 (7.55%) Problem Management
7 3 (5.66%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (5.66%) Computer Science
7 3 (5.66%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (5.66%) Network Design
7 3 (5.66%) Network Management
7 3 (5.66%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) Python
2 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
3 6 (11.32%) Bash
4 3 (5.66%) SQL
5 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) C
6 1 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (26.42%) CCNP
3 10 (18.87%) CCIE
4 7 (13.21%) CCSA
5 5 (9.43%) CCIE Service Provider
5 5 (9.43%) CCNA
5 5 (9.43%) Degree
5 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
6 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.89%) CCSE
8 1 (1.89%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.89%) RHCE
8 1 (1.89%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) NIST
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) PMO
2 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.43%) Firmware
3 2 (3.77%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.89%) Docker
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (26.42%) Ansible
2 12 (22.64%) ZABBIX
3 9 (16.98%) Terraform
4 6 (11.32%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (7.55%) CA Spectrum
5 4 (7.55%) Nagios
6 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (1.89%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.89%) Grafana
7 1 (1.89%) Graylog
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.89%) Netcool
7 1 (1.89%) OfficeScan
7 1 (1.89%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.89%) Puppet
7 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (1.89%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 36 (67.92%) Cisco
2 15 (28.30%) F5
3 13 (24.53%) CheckPoint
3 13 (24.53%) Juniper
3 13 (24.53%) VMware
4 10 (18.87%) Palo Alto
5 8 (15.09%) Fortinet
6 7 (13.21%) Meraki
6 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
7 6 (11.32%) Nokia
8 4 (7.55%) Arista
8 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
9 3 (5.66%) Aruba
9 3 (5.66%) Zscaler
10 2 (3.77%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (3.77%) Forcepoint
10 2 (3.77%) Infoblox
10 2 (3.77%) NETGEAR
10 2 (3.77%) NetScout
10 2 (3.77%) TP-LINK