SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

SolarWinds
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 31 August 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
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -37 - -
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.14% 0.90% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 2.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% - -
North East median daily rate £225 £488 -
% change year-on-year -53.85% - -

All Vendors
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 211 75 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 30.10% 33.63% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 47 40
10th Percentile £315 £195 £300
25th Percentile £400 £354 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £558
90th Percentile £675 £630 £704
North East median daily rate £456 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +1.39% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 4 0
10th Percentile £26.66 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £19.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% - -
75th Percentile - £28.47 -
90th Percentile - £42.59 -
North East median hourly rate £70.00 £19.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +263.64% -58.32% +17.39%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SolarWinds relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SolarWinds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 31 August 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
Sunderland - 1 £225 - 1
SolarWinds
North East

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam