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 13 January 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
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 82 97
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 +17
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.42% 0.48% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 1.00% 1.04% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile - - £398
25th Percentile £463 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £444 £415
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% +6.93% +34.96%
75th Percentile £488 £470 £460
90th Percentile - £472 £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 500 479 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 42.41% 46.06% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 290 436
10th Percentile £308 £336 £233
25th Percentile £368 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £583
90th Percentile £659 £700 £685
North West median daily rate £458 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 11 20
10th Percentile £18.87 £28.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.58 £30.63 £12.82
Median hourly rate £22.57 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -30.57% +83.41% -72.74%
75th Percentile £31.40 £33.75 £43.59
90th Percentile £31.66 - £50.10
North West median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.46% -7.14% +42.39%

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
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Salford - 1 - -
SolarWinds
North West

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 4 (80.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) CMDB
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
1 2 (40.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) ITSM
1 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Observability
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCDP
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto