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 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 137 155 203
Rank change year-on-year +18 +48 +15
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 22 50 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.90% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 1.39% 1.90% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 14
10th Percentile £250 £400 £328
25th Percentile £296 £444 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £419
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +23.88% -1.47%
75th Percentile £661 £634 £444
90th Percentile £726 £650 £508
England median daily rate £540 £525 £463
% change year-on-year +2.86% +13.51% +1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
England median hourly rate - £28.15 £62.62
% change year-on-year - -55.04% +40.71%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Hampshire +18 10 £658 +11.54%
Thames Valley +42 4 £250 -61.24% 5
West Sussex -1 4 £550 +15.79% 1
Surrey +17 3 £300 -28.14%
Oxfordshire - 3 £250 - 2
Berkshire +30 1 - - 2
Sussex - 1 - -
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:

Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) Akamai
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Firewall
2 7 (31.82%) DNS
3 6 (27.27%) Wireless
4 5 (22.73%) VPN
5 4 (18.18%) DHCP
5 4 (18.18%) WAN
6 3 (13.64%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (13.64%) LAN
6 3 (13.64%) Network Security
6 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
6 3 (13.64%) Wireshark
7 2 (9.09%) BGP
7 2 (9.09%) IP Telephony
7 2 (9.09%) OSPF
7 2 (9.09%) VLAN
7 2 (9.09%) VSAN
8 1 (4.55%) EIGRP
8 1 (4.55%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
8 1 (4.55%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) Subversion
2 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Electronics
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Network Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (13.64%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) ICT Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Network Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Network Migration Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 2 (9.09%) NHS
2 2 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Windows
1 7 (31.82%) Windows Server
2 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Solaris
3 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) High Availability
2 4 (18.18%) Migration
2 4 (18.18%) Patch Management
2 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (13.64%) ITIL
3 3 (13.64%) ITSM
3 3 (13.64%) Power Management
3 3 (13.64%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
3 3 (13.64%) Service Management
4 2 (9.09%) Agile
4 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.09%) Capacity Management
4 2 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 2 (9.09%) Network Architecture
4 2 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 2 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) CCIE
4 2 (9.09%) CCNA
4 2 (9.09%) CCNP
4 2 (9.09%) HP APS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.55%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (18.18%) vSphere
3 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) SCCM
1 6 (27.27%) SCOM
2 5 (22.73%) vCenter Server
3 4 (18.18%) Ansible
4 3 (13.64%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (9.09%) Iperf
5 2 (9.09%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (9.09%) SELinux
5 2 (9.09%) WSUS
6 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) Juniper
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) VMware
3 4 (18.18%) Symantec
4 3 (13.64%) NETGEAR
4 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
4 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
4 3 (13.64%) TP-LINK
5 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
5 2 (9.09%) HP
5 2 (9.09%) Infoblox
5 2 (9.09%) McAfee
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) SAP
5 2 (9.09%) Veritas
6 1 (4.55%) Dell KACE
6 1 (4.55%) F5
6 1 (4.55%) Meraki
6 1 (4.55%) Ubiquiti