SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in Manchester

SolarWinds
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 79 96
Rank change year-on-year -9 +17 +35
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.26% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.55% 0.80% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - - £398
25th Percentile £463 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £415
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +2.41% +34.96%
75th Percentile £488 £453 £460
90th Percentile - £463 £477
North West median daily rate £338 £475 £408
% change year-on-year -28.95% +16.56% +32.52%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 545 498 639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 47.15% 45.48% 40.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 296 455
10th Percentile £311 £334 £248
25th Percentile £381 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £590
90th Percentile £683 £675 £700
North West median daily rate £465 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -7.00% -1.96% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 16 23
10th Percentile £19.01 £22.25 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.52 £29.88 £16.27
Median hourly rate £22.41 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.05% +83.41% -56.78%
75th Percentile £29.22 £33.75 £44.69
90th Percentile £31.40 £44.38 £53.80
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.63% -7.14% +74.43%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SolarWinds relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in Manchester

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SolarWinds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SolarWinds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Server Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCDP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Veeam
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Meraki
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto