SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

SolarWinds
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 8 April 2026, 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
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.099% - 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% - 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £519 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +21.21%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 546 160 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 54.17% 45.45% 58.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 107 150
10th Percentile £333 £185 £212
25th Percentile £413 £356 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +1.12% -15.23%
75th Percentile £558 £570 £540
90th Percentile £640 £650 £606
Yorkshire median daily rate £499 £450 £471
% change year-on-year +10.83% -4.46% -9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £15.27 - £12.63
25th Percentile £15.29 £18.10 £12.64
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £13.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +36.11% -4.33%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.41 £20.13
90th Percentile £19.07 £18.47 £39.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £24.37 £14.63
% change year-on-year +74.39% +66.63% -26.88%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 April 2026. 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
Sheffield - 1 £519 -
SolarWinds
Yorkshire

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VNX
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) NCDA
1 1 (100.00%) NCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) SRDF
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VPLEX
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (100.00%) SnapVault
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) 3PAR
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware