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 May 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
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 289 358
Rank change year-on-year -94 +69 +82
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 20 55 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.44% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.98% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 34 26
10th Percentile £441 £331 £306
25th Percentile £475 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £544 £574 £537
90th Percentile £615 £660 £551
England median daily rate £457 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.05% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £48.72 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -61.99%

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 7,499 5,618 7,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.12% 45.44% 40.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,954 3,680 4,900
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 92 128
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.91 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.97 £22.74 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +29.20% -23.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.20 £35.06
90th Percentile £77.98 £67.25 £58.63
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -19 1 £520 -11.30% 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 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) LAN
1 7 (35.00%) WAN
2 5 (25.00%) Firewall
3 4 (20.00%) VPN
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (15.00%) DNS
4 3 (15.00%) MPLS
4 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (10.00%) DHCP
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security
6 1 (5.00%) SNMP
6 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.00%) WLAN
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Law
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Architect
2 1 (5.00%) E-Commerce Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (5.00%) IT Programme Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Lead
2 1 (5.00%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Network Field Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Senior
2 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) AIX
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL
2 5 (25.00%) Change Management
2 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) API Integration
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (15.00%) Security Management
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.00%) High Availability
5 2 (10.00%) ITSM
5 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Perl
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CCNA
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Pingdom
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (15.00%) SCCM
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.00%) Nagios
4 1 (5.00%) SCOM
4 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco
2 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 5 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (20.00%) Moogsoft
3 4 (20.00%) PagerDuty
4 3 (15.00%) Aruba
4 3 (15.00%) Meraki
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.00%) Dell
5 1 (5.00%) Equitrac
5 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (5.00%) Qualys
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk
5 1 (5.00%) Veeam
5 1 (5.00%) Zerto