SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

SolarWinds
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 21 June 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
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.82% - 1.08%
As % of the Vendors category 2.99% - 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £589 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 - £360
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -2.27% -6.70% +38.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - -
Median hourly rate £48.72 - -
75th Percentile £52.58 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 - -

All Vendors
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 67 86 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 27.46% 57.72% 51.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 60 55
10th Percentile £363 - £489
25th Percentile £450 £200 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £459 £580
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% -20.82% +22.11%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £677
90th Percentile £624 £662 £739
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 53
10th Percentile £45.28 £24.66 -
25th Percentile £45.90 £28.80 £53.40
Median hourly rate £48.11 £33.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +41.98% -40.92% -0.26%
75th Percentile £52.99 £58.81 £67.02
90th Percentile £53.73 £62.50 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £28.00 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year -17.37% -40.92% +9.24%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CSOC
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro
1 1 (50.00%) Tripwire