SolarWinds Contracts in the South West

SolarWinds
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 100 145 140
Rank change year-on-year +45 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 11 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 0.38% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 1.44% 0.93% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 19
10th Percentile £363 - £385
25th Percentile £406 £333 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +41.03%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £575
90th Percentile £738 £713 £615
England median daily rate £540 £525 £463
% change year-on-year +2.86% +13.51% +1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £56.68
25th Percentile - - £62.00
Median hourly rate - - £62.62
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £69.61
England median hourly rate - £28.15 £62.62
% change year-on-year - -55.04% +40.71%

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 766 1,291 1,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 45.65% 40.36% 40.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 822 1,105
10th Percentile £220 £195 £243
25th Percentile £389 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -2.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 174 81
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.69 £49.00
Median hourly rate £40.84 £47.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% -24.60% +33.74%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.75
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the South West

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the South West

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the South West

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the South West

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +31 5 £688 +14.58% 3
Somerset - 4 £450 - 1
Bristol +15 1 - - 3
Devon - 1 £413 -
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) BGP
1 6 (54.55%) OSPF
1 6 (54.55%) VPN
2 4 (36.36%) MPLS
3 3 (27.27%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) LAN
3 3 (27.27%) WAN
4 2 (18.18%) Broadband
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (18.18%) DHCP
4 2 (18.18%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) IOS XR
4 2 (18.18%) IPv6
4 2 (18.18%) Multicast
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (9.09%) HSRP
5 1 (9.09%) Skype
5 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Coordinator
2 3 (27.27%) Security Assurance Coordinator
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) NsoIT
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) ITSM
4 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Security Management
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) CESG Certified Professional
4 3 (27.27%) CISA
4 3 (27.27%) CISSP
5 2 (18.18%) CCIE
5 2 (18.18%) CCNA
5 2 (18.18%) CCNP
6 1 (9.09%) MCSA
6 1 (9.09%) MCSE
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (9.09%) OCA
6 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (27.27%) JSP 440
1 3 (27.27%) RMADS
2 1 (9.09%) GRC
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Nagios
1 2 (18.18%) ZABBIX
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (9.09%) OPNET
2 1 (9.09%) PowerCLI
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) SCOM
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Nokia
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Aruba
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) Remedy
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam