SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in Scotland

SolarWinds
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 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
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 2 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% - 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% - 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £423 - £402
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £528 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +13.51%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 664 631 992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 43.54% 38.10% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 358 585
10th Percentile £253 £175 £181
25th Percentile £381 £350 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 40 36
10th Percentile - £13.60 £13.96
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £18.61
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +26.76% +5.02%
75th Percentile £28.15 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.38 £35.45 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -14.91% -37.78% +74.55%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in Scotland

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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
Glasgow - 1 £425 - 1
West Lothian - 1 £525 -
SolarWinds
UK

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (50.00%) IPv4
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Avaya
2 1 (50.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki