SolarWinds Contracts in the South East

SolarWinds
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SolarWinds.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 205 215
Rank change year-on-year +55 +10 -28
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 50 21 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.90% 0.36% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.90% 0.72% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 15 34
10th Percentile £400 £333 -
25th Percentile £444 £369 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% -2.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £634 £456 £500
90th Percentile £650 £533 £525
England median daily rate £525 £475 £456
% change year-on-year +10.53% +4.11% +21.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £42.65
25th Percentile £58.50 - £44.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £47.50
75th Percentile £67.50 - £49.76
90th Percentile - - £50.37
England median hourly rate £28.15 £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year -55.04% +40.71% +78.00%

All Vendors
South East

SolarWinds is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,629 2,903 3,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.58% 49.80% 44.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,601 1,996 2,377
10th Percentile £213 £205 £188
25th Percentile £378 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 125 138
10th Percentile £12.00 £18.08 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.24 £22.16 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £36.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.45 £62.15
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the South East

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the South East

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the South East

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the South East

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +12 18 £590 +38.71% 1
West Sussex - 17 £475 -
Thames Valley +6 5 £645 +72.00%
Kent - 4 £425 -
Buckinghamshire +26 3 £470 +25.33%
Surrey +12 3 £418 - 1
Berkshire -7 2 £650 +48.57%
East Sussex - 2 £488 -
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.00%) AWS
1 10 (20.00%) GitHub
2 7 (14.00%) Azure
3 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.00%) IaaS
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (64.00%) Firewall
2 12 (24.00%) DNS
3 9 (18.00%) DHCP
4 7 (14.00%) LAN
4 7 (14.00%) WAN
5 6 (12.00%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (12.00%) VPN
6 5 (10.00%) Wireless
7 4 (8.00%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (8.00%) NetScaler
7 4 (8.00%) SAN
7 4 (8.00%) VoIP
8 3 (6.00%) BGP
8 3 (6.00%) Network Security
8 3 (6.00%) Unified Communications
8 3 (6.00%) VSAN
8 3 (6.00%) Wireshark
8 3 (6.00%) WLAN
9 2 (4.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.00%) MySQL
4 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) GitLab
2 3 (6.00%) Git
3 2 (4.00%) Subversion
4 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (12.00%) Finance
1 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.00%) Legal
3 3 (6.00%) Electronics
3 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.00%) Marketing
3 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 26 (52.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Database Specialist
3 7 (14.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) Platform Specialist
5 5 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Linux Support Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Clustering
1 9 (18.00%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (16.00%) Replication
3 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.00%) NHS
4 3 (6.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.00%) Linux
2 7 (14.00%) Windows
3 6 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (12.00%) Unix
4 4 (8.00%) Solaris
4 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.00%) VMS
6 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) High Availability
2 13 (26.00%) Migration
2 13 (26.00%) Network Architecture
3 11 (22.00%) Capacity Management
3 11 (22.00%) Data Migration
3 11 (22.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (22.00%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (22.00%) Task Automation
4 8 (16.00%) Database Security
4 8 (16.00%) Storage Management
5 7 (14.00%) Load Balancing
6 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (12.00%) Product Roadmap
6 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (12.00%) Runbook
6 6 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
8 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) Bash
2 6 (12.00%) Python
3 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.00%) SQL
5 2 (4.00%) Perl
5 2 (4.00%) VBScript
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (38.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (38.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (14.00%) CCNA
4 5 (10.00%) CCNP
5 4 (8.00%) Degree
6 3 (6.00%) CCIE
7 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) vSphere
2 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (8.00%) VMware NSX
5 3 (6.00%) XenApp
6 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Ansible
2 12 (24.00%) Terraform
3 7 (14.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (8.00%) SCCM
5 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.00%) VxRail
5 3 (6.00%) WSUS
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (4.00%) SELinux
6 2 (4.00%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (4.00%) vCenter Server
6 2 (4.00%) vRealize
7 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.00%) Iperf
7 1 (2.00%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (2.00%) Packer
7 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) F5
2 17 (34.00%) VMware
3 13 (26.00%) Red Hat
4 12 (24.00%) Cisco
5 10 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 8 (16.00%) Oracle
7 6 (12.00%) CheckPoint
7 6 (12.00%) Citrix
7 6 (12.00%) Dell
7 6 (12.00%) Meraki
8 4 (8.00%) Juniper
8 4 (8.00%) Symantec
9 3 (6.00%) SAP
9 3 (6.00%) Veritas
10 2 (4.00%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (4.00%) Forcepoint
10 2 (4.00%) Ivanti
11 1 (2.00%) EMC
11 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
11 1 (2.00%) Veeam