SolarWinds Contract Job Trends 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 3 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 86 128
Rank change year-on-year -50 +42 +44
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 8 32 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.32% 1.42% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 3.09% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 4
10th Percentile £361 £413 £382
25th Percentile £399 £433 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £408
Median % change year-on-year - +16.56% +18.55%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £446
90th Percentile - £557 £471
England median daily rate £500 £467 £540
% change year-on-year +7.07% -13.52% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +15.75%

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 1,277 1,036 1,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 51.76% 45.94% 47.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 554 823
10th Percentile £252 £313 £234
25th Percentile £363 £409 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 56 89
10th Percentile £16.46 £16.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.35 £24.14 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £72.84 £55.17
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in the North West

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the North West over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the North West

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SolarWinds

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 3 December 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
Cheshire -25 4 - - 5
Manchester -9 3 £475 +11.76%
Lancashire - 1 £335 -
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (50.00%) LAN
2 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 4 (50.00%) VLAN
2 4 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (37.50%) BGP
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (37.50%) Network Security
3 3 (37.50%) NX-OS
3 3 (37.50%) WLAN
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (12.50%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
1 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) BCP
3 1 (12.50%) Network Design
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CCNP
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) CCDP
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Dell
2 4 (50.00%) NetApp
2 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (50.00%) Veeam
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) F5
3 3 (37.50%) Meraki
4 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 1 (12.50%) LogicMonitor