SolarWinds Contracts in the North West

SolarWinds
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 110 147
Rank change year-on-year +9 +37 +5
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 19 27 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.97% 0.98% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 1.82% 2.46% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 9
10th Percentile £310 £412 £200
25th Percentile £363 £450 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £325
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +57.69% -
75th Percentile £519 £540 £375
90th Percentile £586 £550 £468
England median daily rate £540 £525 £463
% change year-on-year +2.86% +13.51% +1.37%

All Vendors
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,046 1,096 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.15% 39.78% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 645 866
10th Percentile £250 £269 £288
25th Percentile £393 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 149 57
10th Percentile £16.43 £10.95 £15.41
25th Percentile £24.46 £12.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £49.40
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £54.57
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the North West

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the North West.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the North West

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the North West

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the North West

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cumbria -4 9 £400 -22.14%
Manchester +16 6 £438 +9.38% 3
Merseyside - 4 £450 - 1
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.53%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) BGP
1 11 (57.89%) OSPF
2 10 (52.63%) Firewall
3 9 (47.37%) Cisco Firepower
4 8 (42.11%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (36.84%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (36.84%) EIGRP
5 7 (36.84%) HSRP
5 7 (36.84%) IPsec
6 6 (31.58%) MPLS
7 3 (15.79%) DHCP
7 3 (15.79%) DNS
7 3 (15.79%) VPN
8 2 (10.53%) Broadband
8 2 (10.53%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (10.53%) IPv6
8 2 (10.53%) Multicast
8 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
8 2 (10.53%) WAN
8 2 (10.53%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Principal Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) ITSM Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Service Manager
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Manager
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
1 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) CMDB
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) CentOS
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) ITIL
2 7 (36.84%) Network Management
3 6 (31.58%) Migration
4 5 (26.32%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (15.79%) Change Management
6 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.53%) ITSM
6 2 (10.53%) Network Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
6 2 (10.53%) Project Management
7 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
7 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (5.26%) Patch Management
7 1 (5.26%) Performance Analysis
7 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
7 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (15.79%) CCNA
4 2 (10.53%) CCIE
4 2 (10.53%) CCNP
5 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
5 1 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Nagios
1 5 (26.32%) ZABBIX
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (5.26%) SCSM
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 10 (52.63%) Palo Alto
3 6 (31.58%) CheckPoint
4 3 (15.79%) Meraki
5 2 (10.53%) Dell
5 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
5 2 (10.53%) HP
5 2 (10.53%) IBM
5 2 (10.53%) Nokia
5 2 (10.53%) VMware
6 1 (5.26%) Aruba
6 1 (5.26%) Citrix
6 1 (5.26%) Remedy