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 20 August 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 128 190
Rank change year-on-year -13 +62 +37
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SolarWinds 24 52 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.68% 1.08% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 2.22% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 42 13
10th Percentile £313 £360 £267
25th Percentile £375 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% +4.29%
75th Percentile £525 £629 £469
90th Percentile £555 £637 £545
England median daily rate £475 £514 £450
% change year-on-year -7.54% +14.17% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,843 2,339 2,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.24% 48.55% 52.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 1,423 1,947
10th Percentile £206 £250 £205
25th Percentile £364 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.57% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 136 131
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £25.21 £18.08
Median hourly rate £18.87 £57.35 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.10% +27.44% +125.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £61.38 £62.19
90th Percentile £76.65 £70.00 £71.28
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -17.14% +55.56%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SolarWinds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the South East over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the South East

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SolarWinds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +5 15 £500 -11.27% 18
Kent +3 5 £375 - 3
Thames Valley +10 2 £250 -54.55% 8
Berkshire +11 1 - - 2
Surrey +8 1 £550 +10.00% 1
West Sussex -11 1 £550 +2.33%
Oxfordshire - 1 £250 - 7
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 5 (20.83%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Akamai
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 7 (29.17%) VPN
3 6 (25.00%) DHCP
3 6 (25.00%) DNS
3 6 (25.00%) VLAN
4 5 (20.83%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (20.83%) SSL
5 4 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (16.67%) Firewall
5 4 (16.67%) Junos
6 2 (8.33%) BGP
6 2 (8.33%) Network Security
6 2 (8.33%) OSPF
6 2 (8.33%) Wireshark
7 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (4.17%) Multicast
7 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (4.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Support Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) 2nd Line Support
2 7 (29.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Network Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Network Support
5 4 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
1 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.17%) Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Solaris
4 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) ITSM
2 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (37.50%) Service Management
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Patch Management
5 3 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security
7 1 (4.17%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (4.17%) Event-Driven
7 1 (4.17%) Incident Response
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (4.17%) Product Roadmap
7 1 (4.17%) Roadmaps
7 1 (4.17%) Runbook
7 1 (4.17%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (54.17%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) CCIE
4 1 (4.17%) CCNP
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (25.00%) vSphere
3 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
4 4 (16.67%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) SCCM
1 11 (45.83%) SCOM
2 7 (29.17%) vCenter Server
3 5 (20.83%) Tivoli
4 3 (12.50%) Ansible
5 1 (4.17%) Iperf
5 1 (4.17%) Nmap
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (4.17%) SELinux
5 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Citrix
3 5 (20.83%) Veeam
4 4 (16.67%) Juniper
5 2 (8.33%) McAfee
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.17%) Dell KACE
6 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.17%) Meraki
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.17%) Symantec
6 1 (4.17%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (4.17%) Veritas