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 1 October 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
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 365 389
Rank change year-on-year +34 +24 +126
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 36 28 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 0.40% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 37
10th Percentile £355 £286 £319
25th Percentile £408 £428 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £598 £559 £588
90th Percentile £661 £619 £643
England median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.85% +5.26% +3.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.00
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.00% -
75th Percentile - - £36.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £65.98
% change year-on-year +179.41% -63.93% +29.96%

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 6,249 6,986 8,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.40% 43.37% 41.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,058 4,437 6,134
10th Percentile £325 £313 £319
25th Percentile £419 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £761 £775
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 78 111
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.85
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.26 £21.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.57% -8.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.13 £64.69 £55.13
90th Percentile £63.55 £83.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.18% +82.71%

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
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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +1 7 £413 -
Central London +14 6 £575 +15.00% 2
South London - 3 £335 -
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 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Akamai
3 7 (19.44%) Azure
4 2 (5.56%) Datadog
4 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.56%) IaaS
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (75.00%) Firewall
2 18 (50.00%) BGP
2 18 (50.00%) OSPF
3 17 (47.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 16 (44.44%) Cisco ISE
4 16 (44.44%) SD-WAN
4 16 (44.44%) WAN
5 14 (38.89%) Cisco Nexus
6 13 (36.11%) VPN
7 12 (33.33%) Network Security
8 11 (30.56%) DNS
8 11 (30.56%) LAN
9 9 (25.00%) DHCP
9 9 (25.00%) Wireshark
10 8 (22.22%) MPLS
11 7 (19.44%) SNMP
11 7 (19.44%) VLAN
11 7 (19.44%) Wireless
12 5 (13.89%) SSL
12 5 (13.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Law
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Legal
4 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Electronics
5 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.56%) Marketing
5 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Network Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Security Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Network Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Desktop Support
6 2 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Network Designer
6 2 (5.56%) Network Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) Security Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) CMDB
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Mac OS X
2 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
2 2 (5.56%) Windows 8
2 2 (5.56%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) Network Monitoring
2 9 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 8 (22.22%) High Availability
4 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Change Management
5 5 (13.89%) ITIL
5 5 (13.89%) Problem Management
6 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.11%) Migration
6 4 (11.11%) Patch Management
7 3 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 3 (8.33%) DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.33%) Runbook
7 3 (8.33%) Security Management
8 2 (5.56%) BCP
8 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (5.56%) Configuration Management
8 2 (5.56%) Project Management
8 2 (5.56%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) CCNP
1 12 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (19.44%) CCSA
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.56%) CCIE
3 2 (5.56%) CCNA
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) JNCIS
3 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.78%) PMO
1 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Firmware
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) vSphere
3 2 (5.56%) XenApp
4 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 4 (11.11%) Ansible
2 4 (11.11%) CA Spectrum
2 4 (11.11%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (8.33%) Terraform
4 2 (5.56%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (5.56%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (2.78%) SCCM
5 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (80.56%) Cisco
2 19 (52.78%) F5
2 19 (52.78%) Fortinet
3 13 (36.11%) Juniper
4 10 (27.78%) Palo Alto
5 9 (25.00%) CheckPoint
6 8 (22.22%) Meraki
7 5 (13.89%) Aruba
8 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 4 (11.11%) VMware
9 3 (8.33%) Dell
9 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
10 2 (5.56%) Aerohive Networks
10 2 (5.56%) Arista
10 2 (5.56%) AVG
10 2 (5.56%) Canon
10 2 (5.56%) GFI Software
10 2 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (5.56%) Spiceworks
10 2 (5.56%) Xerox