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 5 September 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
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 325 358
Rank change year-on-year -105 +33 +54
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 20 43 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.099% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.70% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 15
10th Percentile £369 £330 £286
25th Percentile £405 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £525 £584 £544
90th Percentile £600 £661 £609
England median daily rate £520 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £50.11 £66.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -24.65% +179.41% -63.93%

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 8,652 6,169 6,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.89% 46.35% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,624 3,993 4,591
10th Percentile £340 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.46%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 125 80
10th Percentile £18.60 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.78 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.30 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +36.88% -13.19% -15.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £62.32
90th Percentile £85.02 £63.75 £78.88
England median hourly rate £32.11 £25.15 £33.00
% change year-on-year +27.68% -23.79% -21.05%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -
Central London -27 1 - - 6
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 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Datadog
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) WAN
2 8 (40.00%) BGP
3 7 (35.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (35.00%) Firewall
3 7 (35.00%) LAN
4 5 (25.00%) Network Security
5 4 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (20.00%) MPLS
5 4 (20.00%) OSPF
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (15.00%) EIGRP
6 3 (15.00%) HSRP
6 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (15.00%) Wireless
7 2 (10.00%) DNS
7 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (10.00%) VPN
8 1 (5.00%) SNMP
8 1 (5.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Designer
2 3 (15.00%) Network Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Network Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) DBA
4 1 (5.00%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) CMDB
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) AIX
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) High Availability
2 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (20.00%) ITIL
3 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (20.00%) WAN Optimisation
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (15.00%) Observability
4 3 (15.00%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Service Management
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (15.00%) Value Proposition
4 3 (15.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) CCNA
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) NFS
2 1 (5.00%) Samba
2 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 3 (15.00%) Nagios
2 3 (15.00%) SCOM
3 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) ZABBIX
4 1 (5.00%) Check_MK
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) OpenNMS
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.00%) Puppet
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM
4 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Sentry
4 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Cisco
2 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 5 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (20.00%) Aruba
3 4 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 4 (20.00%) F5
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) Riverbed
4 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (15.00%) Splunk
5 2 (10.00%) AppDynamics
5 2 (10.00%) VMware
6 1 (5.00%) Dell
6 1 (5.00%) EMC
6 1 (5.00%) Juniper
6 1 (5.00%) Moogsoft
6 1 (5.00%) NetApp
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.00%) Tenable