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 14 November 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
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 369 371
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 +150
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 28 22 58
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.14% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 0.32% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 44
10th Percentile £400 £447 £319
25th Percentile £423 £469 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -3.76% +3.40%
75th Percentile £575 £614 £600
90th Percentile £638 £629 £709
England median daily rate £500 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +7.30% -6.80% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year - -28.42% -
75th Percentile - - £35.44
90th Percentile - - £35.78
England median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £65.98
% change year-on-year +179.41% -63.93% +15.75%

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 6,545 6,890 8,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.50% 43.81% 41.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,228 4,338 5,757
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 65 119
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.80 £16.97
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -12.35% +62.00%
75th Percentile £38.13 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.35 £97.00 £83.85
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% -24.16% +73.08%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -5 5 £407 -
Central London +3 4 £550 +10.00% 11
South London - 3 £335 -
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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Akamai
1 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
3 1 (3.57%) IaaS
3 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.57%) PaaS
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (60.71%) Firewall
2 14 (50.00%) BGP
2 14 (50.00%) OSPF
3 13 (46.43%) Cisco Nexus
4 12 (42.86%) Cisco ISE
5 11 (39.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 10 (35.71%) WAN
7 9 (32.14%) SD-WAN
8 7 (25.00%) LAN
8 7 (25.00%) Network Security
8 7 (25.00%) SNMP
8 7 (25.00%) VPN
8 7 (25.00%) Wireshark
9 6 (21.43%) VLAN
9 6 (21.43%) Wireless
10 5 (17.86%) DHCP
10 5 (17.86%) DMVPN
10 5 (17.86%) DNS
11 4 (14.29%) SSL
11 4 (14.29%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Law
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Security Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Juniper Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Designer
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Network Designer
4 2 (7.14%) Network Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.57%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
2 8 (28.57%) High Availability
2 8 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.71%) Change Management
4 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
4 3 (10.71%) ITIL
4 3 (10.71%) Network Design
4 3 (10.71%) Patch Management
5 2 (7.14%) Asset Management
5 2 (7.14%) Break/Fix
5 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (7.14%) IT Asset Management
5 2 (7.14%) ITSM
5 2 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (7.14%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Bash
1 2 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) Perl
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) CCNP
1 8 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (17.86%) CCSA
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) CCNA
5 1 (3.57%) CCIE
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.57%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Firmware
2 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) FortiGate
2 4 (14.29%) CA Spectrum
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (7.14%) SCCM
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Nagios
4 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Cisco
2 13 (46.43%) F5
2 13 (46.43%) Fortinet
3 12 (42.86%) Juniper
4 6 (21.43%) CheckPoint
4 6 (21.43%) Meraki
4 6 (21.43%) Palo Alto
5 3 (10.71%) Aruba
5 3 (10.71%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.57%) Arista
7 1 (3.57%) Broadcom
7 1 (3.57%) Ribbon
7 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.57%) Splunk
7 1 (3.57%) VMware