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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 324 351
Rank change year-on-year -101 +27 +69
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 18 48 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.089% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.77% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 22
10th Percentile £365 £362 £314
25th Percentile £400 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £538
90th Percentile £620 £661 £584
England median daily rate £500 £475 £514
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.54% +14.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £50.11 £57.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -12.85% +141.60% -61.61%

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 8,554 6,220 6,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.18% 45.81% 42.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,557 4,047 4,729
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.80%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £510 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 122 86
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.60 £20.69
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.31 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +34.93% -5.19% -20.71%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.62 £60.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.63
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% -16.17% -24.15%

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 August 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 August 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
East London - 2 £600 - 1
Central London -29 1 - - 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 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) LAN
1 8 (44.44%) WAN
2 6 (33.33%) BGP
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (33.33%) Firewall
3 4 (22.22%) Network Security
3 4 (22.22%) OSPF
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 3 (16.67%) HSRP
4 3 (16.67%) MPLS
4 3 (16.67%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (11.11%) SNMP
5 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (11.11%) Wireless
6 1 (5.56%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 3 (16.67%) Legal
2 2 (11.11%) Law
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Designer
2 3 (16.67%) Network Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Network Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.56%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) CMDB
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) AIX
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) High Availability
2 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL
3 4 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) ITSM
4 3 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (16.67%) Value Proposition
4 3 (16.67%) Zero Trust
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCNA
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) CCNP
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) NFS
2 1 (5.56%) Samba
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Nagios
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Check_MK
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (5.56%) OpenNMS
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
3 1 (5.56%) SCOM
3 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Fortinet
3 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
4 3 (16.67%) Aruba
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
5 2 (11.11%) F5
5 2 (11.11%) Riverbed
5 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.11%) Splunk
5 2 (11.11%) VMware
6 1 (5.56%) AppDynamics
6 1 (5.56%) Dell
6 1 (5.56%) EMC
6 1 (5.56%) Juniper
6 1 (5.56%) Meraki
6 1 (5.56%) NetApp
6 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.56%) SAP
6 1 (5.56%) Tenable