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 26 December 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
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 353 350
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +141
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 25 22 51
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% 0.33% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 39
10th Percentile £374 £335 £310
25th Percentile £439 £465 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £638
90th Percentile £600 £625 £713
England median daily rate £500 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.04% +16.76%
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 - - +29.96%

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 6,798 6,601 7,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.30% 40.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,428 4,119 5,213
10th Percentile £343 £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 £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 68 108
10th Percentile £17.55 £19.51 £16.62
25th Percentile £22.13 £23.75 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.74 £34.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.94% -7.33% +45.86%
75th Percentile £41.89 £64.06 £61.88
90th Percentile £67.13 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.66 £30.45 £45.21
% change year-on-year -22.29% -32.65% +68.29%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 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
West London - 4 £401 - 1
South London - 3 £335 -
Central London +5 2 £523 -4.74% 3
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 (16.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (12.00%) Akamai
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
6 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) WAN
3 7 (28.00%) BGP
3 7 (28.00%) Cisco ISE
3 7 (28.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (28.00%) OSPF
4 6 (24.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (24.00%) LAN
4 6 (24.00%) SD-WAN
5 5 (20.00%) VLAN
5 5 (20.00%) VPN
5 5 (20.00%) Wireless
6 4 (16.00%) DHCP
6 4 (16.00%) DMVPN
6 4 (16.00%) DNS
6 4 (16.00%) Network Security
7 3 (12.00%) EIGRP
7 3 (12.00%) SNMP
7 3 (12.00%) SSL
7 3 (12.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) Designer
3 2 (8.00%) Monitoring Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Network Designer
3 2 (8.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Monitoring Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Security Administrator
4 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) JSON
1 4 (16.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (20.00%) Migration
2 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.00%) API Integration
3 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) High Availability
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (12.00%) Network Design
4 3 (12.00%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (8.00%) Change Management
5 2 (8.00%) IT Asset Management
5 2 (8.00%) ITSM
5 2 (8.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (8.00%) Patch Management
5 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Bash
2 2 (8.00%) Perl
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) CCNP
1 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.00%) CCSA
3 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Firmware
2 2 (8.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) FortiGate
1 4 (16.00%) Pingdom
1 4 (16.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) CA Spectrum
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (8.00%) SCCM
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.00%) Nagios
4 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) F5
2 7 (28.00%) Juniper
3 6 (24.00%) Fortinet
4 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 5 (20.00%) Meraki
4 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (16.00%) Moogsoft
5 4 (16.00%) PagerDuty
5 4 (16.00%) Palo Alto
6 3 (12.00%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (8.00%) Aruba
7 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.00%) Broadcom
8 1 (4.00%) Qualys
8 1 (4.00%) Ribbon
8 1 (4.00%) Splunk
8 1 (4.00%) Veeam
8 1 (4.00%) VMware