SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

SolarWinds
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 133 112 129
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 +67
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 13 22 19
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.48% 0.82% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 0.97% 1.79% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 14
10th Percentile £425 £165 £383
25th Percentile £453 £383 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% +13.16% +40.74%
75th Percentile £533 £659 £588
90th Percentile £594 £718 £618
England median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.85% +5.26% +3.94%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,337 1,230 1,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 49.41% 45.95% 51.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 874 783 988
10th Percentile £239 £233 £210
25th Percentile £360 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £596
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 29 44
10th Percentile £15.51 £12.75 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.00 £14.45
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.94% -13.92% +12.47%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £36.44
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.00 £70.00
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 the Midlands

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the Midlands

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SolarWinds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the Midlands

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SolarWinds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Midlands 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 Midlands -14 13 £494 -5.95% 2
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) BGP
2 6 (46.15%) EIGRP
2 6 (46.15%) OSPF
3 5 (38.46%) DNS
3 5 (38.46%) IPsec
3 5 (38.46%) Network Security
3 5 (38.46%) VLAN
3 5 (38.46%) Wireless
3 5 (38.46%) Wireshark
4 4 (30.77%) BIG-IP
4 4 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (30.77%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (30.77%) DHCP
4 4 (30.77%) WAN
5 3 (23.08%) DMVPN
5 3 (23.08%) HTTP
5 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
5 3 (23.08%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (23.08%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Network Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) Load Balancing
3 4 (30.77%) Asset Management
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Coaching
4 2 (15.38%) Product Backlog
4 2 (15.38%) Product Management
4 2 (15.38%) Product Requirements
4 2 (15.38%) Product Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Product Vision
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.69%) Network Management
5 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) CCNP
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) CCNA
4 1 (7.69%) CCIE
4 1 (7.69%) CCSA
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) JNCIA
4 1 (7.69%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Def Stans
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Terminal Services
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (15.38%) Nagios
3 1 (7.69%) Nessus
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) Juniper
3 5 (38.46%) CheckPoint
3 5 (38.46%) F5
4 4 (30.77%) Palo Alto
4 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
5 2 (15.38%) Arista
5 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle
5 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (7.69%) Dell
6 1 (7.69%) Meraki
6 1 (7.69%) Veeam
6 1 (7.69%) VMware