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 30 June 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
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 360 432
Rank change year-on-year +71 +72 +72
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 57 39 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.98% 0.53% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 23 33
10th Percentile £375 £315 £320
25th Percentile £415 £469 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £578 £538 £585
90th Percentile £661 £548 £648
England median daily rate £500 £515 £450
% change year-on-year -2.91% +14.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £23.80 £62.62
% change year-on-year +141.60% -61.99% +39.92%

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 5,811 7,300 10,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.30% 41.77% 40.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,761 5,003 7,222
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -2.55% -0.05%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £798
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 129 121
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.87 £16.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.78 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.33 £23.80 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.01% -21.32% -13.57%
75th Percentile £48.44 £38.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £26.32 £24.50 £32.15
% change year-on-year +7.43% -23.79% +47.49%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +10 10 £575 +15.00% 15
West London +14 9 £400 -23.81% 8
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 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) nginx
2 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.84%) AWS
2 15 (26.32%) Azure
3 5 (8.77%) Akamai
4 4 (7.02%) GCP
5 3 (5.26%) GitHub
6 2 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.51%) Datadog
6 2 (3.51%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.51%) IaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.75%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (68.42%) Firewall
2 28 (49.12%) BGP
2 28 (49.12%) OSPF
2 28 (49.12%) VPN
3 20 (35.09%) Cisco ISE
3 20 (35.09%) WAN
4 18 (31.58%) Network Security
5 17 (29.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 17 (29.82%) SD-WAN
6 16 (28.07%) DNS
7 15 (26.32%) MPLS
8 12 (21.05%) LAN
9 10 (17.54%) DHCP
9 10 (17.54%) VLAN
9 10 (17.54%) Wireless
10 9 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (15.79%) WLAN
11 7 (12.28%) EIGRP
11 7 (12.28%) Multicast
11 7 (12.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
1 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.75%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (22.81%) Finance
1 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Banking
3 4 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Law
4 3 (5.26%) Legal
4 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.51%) Electronics
5 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.51%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (57.89%) Network Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Principal Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Security Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Cisco Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Network Security Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Principal Network Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Senior
6 5 (8.77%) Implementation Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Administrator
7 4 (7.02%) Lead
7 4 (7.02%) Network Administrator
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Juniper Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Principal Security Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 2 (3.51%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.75%) ADO
2 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.77%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.51%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (1.75%) CMDB
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.54%) Windows
2 5 (8.77%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.26%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.51%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.51%) Windows 8
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.51%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) Network Monitoring
2 16 (28.07%) Migration
3 10 (17.54%) ITIL
4 9 (15.79%) High Availability
4 9 (15.79%) Network Segmentation
4 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
5 7 (12.28%) Patch Management
6 6 (10.53%) Change Management
6 6 (10.53%) DevOps
6 6 (10.53%) Project Delivery
7 5 (8.77%) Low Latency
7 5 (8.77%) Problem Management
8 4 (7.02%) Configuration Management
8 4 (7.02%) Customer Service
8 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (5.26%) Incident Response
9 3 (5.26%) Project Management
9 3 (5.26%) Runbook
9 3 (5.26%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.79%) Python
2 5 (8.77%) Bash
3 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.02%) SQL
4 1 (1.75%) C
4 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (38.60%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (28.07%) CCNP
3 8 (14.04%) CCIE
3 8 (14.04%) CCSA
4 5 (8.77%) CCIE Service Provider
5 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
6 3 (5.26%) CCNA
6 3 (5.26%) Degree
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.51%) JNCIS
7 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.75%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.75%) RHCE
8 1 (1.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) SLA
2 1 (1.75%) NIST
2 1 (1.75%) PMO
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Firmware
2 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.51%) vSphere
4 2 (3.51%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) Ansible
1 11 (19.30%) ZABBIX
2 8 (14.04%) Terraform
3 7 (12.28%) CA Spectrum
4 4 (7.02%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (7.02%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.51%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (3.51%) Nagios
5 2 (3.51%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco LMS
6 1 (1.75%) Grafana
6 1 (1.75%) Netcool
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.75%) SCCM
6 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (70.18%) Cisco
2 22 (38.60%) F5
3 17 (29.82%) Juniper
4 15 (26.32%) Fortinet
5 14 (24.56%) CheckPoint
6 11 (19.30%) Palo Alto
7 9 (15.79%) Meraki
7 9 (15.79%) VMware
8 6 (10.53%) Nokia
9 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
10 4 (7.02%) Arista
10 4 (7.02%) NETGEAR
11 3 (5.26%) Aruba
11 3 (5.26%) Dell
11 3 (5.26%) Zscaler
12 2 (3.51%) Adobe
12 2 (3.51%) Citrix
12 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
12 2 (3.51%) Sage
12 2 (3.51%) SAP