SolarWinds Contracts in the Thames Valley

SolarWinds
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 98 140 144
Rank change year-on-year +42 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.50% 0.39% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile - £379 £236
25th Percentile - £534 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £645 £375
Median % change year-on-year -61.24% +72.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £653 £430
90th Percentile - £657 £444
South East median daily rate £550 £519 £419
% change year-on-year +6.02% +23.88% -1.47%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the Thames Valley

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the Thames Valley

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the Thames Valley

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Thames Valley 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
Oxfordshire - 3 £250 - 2
Berkshire +30 1 - - 2
SolarWinds
South East

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) RIP
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Police
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) ICT Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Operations Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco