SolarWinds Contracts in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 243 293 357
Rank change year-on-year +50 +64 +40
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 93 107 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.49% 1.21% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 80 78
10th Percentile £285 £333 £202
25th Percentile £402 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £514 £438
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% +17.43% +4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £627 £538
90th Percentile £703 £650 £588
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £456
% change year-on-year +1.94% +12.88% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £56.68
25th Percentile - £58.50 £62.00
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £62.62
Median % change year-on-year - +0.61% +40.71%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £63.23
90th Percentile - - £69.61
UK median hourly rate - £28.15 £62.62
% change year-on-year - -55.04% +40.71%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands +43 28 £585 -2.50% 8
South East +18 22 £550 +6.02% 10
North of England +12 22 £461 -10.44% 8
North West +9 19 £425 -17.07% 5
West Midlands - 18 £551 - 4
South West +45 11 £525 -1.87% 8
East Midlands +13 10 £651 +8.42% 3
Wales - 10 £290 - 1
East of England +32 3 £466 +33.21% 3
North East - 3 £600 - 1
Scotland +6 1 £450 +3.45% 9
SolarWinds
UK

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (3.23%) IIS
2 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.35%) Azure
2 11 (11.83%) AWS
3 4 (4.30%) Nutanix
4 3 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.23%) IaaS
4 3 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.23%) PaaS
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.15%) GitHub
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Akamai
6 1 (1.08%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.08%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (44.09%) Firewall
2 27 (29.03%) OSPF
3 23 (24.73%) BGP
3 23 (24.73%) DNS
4 17 (18.28%) IPsec
5 16 (17.20%) VPN
5 16 (17.20%) Wireless
6 15 (16.13%) HSRP
7 11 (11.83%) DHCP
7 11 (11.83%) WAN
8 10 (10.75%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (10.75%) EIGRP
8 10 (10.75%) Network Security
8 10 (10.75%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (9.68%) LAN
9 9 (9.68%) SD-WAN
9 9 (9.68%) VLAN
10 8 (8.60%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (7.53%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (7.53%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Git
1 3 (3.23%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.15%) Subversion
3 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.98%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.45%) Law
5 2 (2.15%) Electronics
5 2 (2.15%) Finance
5 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.15%) Legal
5 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.15%) Marketing
5 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.08%) Military
6 1 (1.08%) Police
6 1 (1.08%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 37 (39.78%) Network Engineer
2 16 (17.20%) Architect
3 11 (11.83%) Network Architect
4 7 (7.53%) Analyst
5 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) IT Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Operations Analyst
7 3 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Coordinator
7 3 (3.23%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (3.23%) IT Analyst
7 3 (3.23%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Security Assurance Coordinator
7 3 (3.23%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Senior
8 2 (2.15%) ICT Analyst
8 2 (2.15%) Network Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) CSOC
2 5 (5.38%) Clustering
2 5 (5.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.15%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.15%) NHS
4 2 (2.15%) SCADA
4 2 (2.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.08%) CMDB
5 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.08%) PKI
5 1 (1.08%) Replication
5 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.88%) Windows
2 16 (17.20%) Windows Server
3 13 (13.98%) Linux
4 10 (10.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (8.60%) VMS
6 4 (4.30%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.15%) CentOS
8 2 (2.15%) Solaris
8 2 (2.15%) Unix
8 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.43%) ITIL
2 16 (17.20%) Network Monitoring
3 13 (13.98%) SIEM
4 12 (12.90%) Migration
5 10 (10.75%) Agile
6 9 (9.68%) High Availability
6 9 (9.68%) Network Management
7 8 (8.60%) Event Correlation
7 8 (8.60%) ITSM
7 8 (8.60%) Network Architecture
8 7 (7.53%) Configuration Management
8 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (7.53%) Performance Metrics
8 7 (7.53%) Service Management
9 6 (6.45%) Change Management
9 6 (6.45%) Computer Science
9 6 (6.45%) Network Design
9 6 (6.45%) Patch Management
9 6 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (6.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.60%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.53%) Python
2 7 (7.53%) SQL
3 2 (2.15%) Bash
3 2 (2.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (52.69%) Security Cleared
2 44 (47.31%) SC Cleared
3 21 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (16.13%) CCNP
5 11 (11.83%) Degree
6 9 (9.68%) DV Cleared
7 6 (6.45%) CCNA
7 6 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.30%) CCIE
9 3 (3.23%) CESG Certified Professional
9 3 (3.23%) CISA
9 3 (3.23%) CISSP
10 2 (2.15%) HP APS
10 2 (2.15%) MCSE
10 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.08%) MCSA
11 1 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.08%) OCA
11 1 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.23%) JSP 440
2 3 (3.23%) RMADS
2 3 (3.23%) SLA
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
3 2 (2.15%) NIST
3 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.15%) QA
4 1 (1.08%) GRC
4 1 (1.08%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 17 (18.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (4.30%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (4.30%) vSphere
5 3 (3.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (10.75%) Ansible
2 7 (7.53%) Cisco Prime
2 7 (7.53%) SCCM
2 7 (7.53%) SCOM
3 6 (6.45%) vCenter Server
4 5 (5.38%) Cacti
4 5 (5.38%) Nagios
4 5 (5.38%) Terraform
4 5 (5.38%) ZABBIX
5 2 (2.15%) Autotask
5 2 (2.15%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.15%) Iperf
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.15%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (2.15%) SELinux
5 2 (2.15%) vRealize
5 2 (2.15%) VxRail
5 2 (2.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (52.69%) Cisco
2 25 (26.88%) Palo Alto
3 22 (23.66%) VMware
4 20 (21.51%) F5
5 14 (15.05%) Juniper
5 14 (15.05%) ServiceNow
6 13 (13.98%) Fortinet
7 12 (12.90%) Microsoft
8 10 (10.75%) Red Hat
9 9 (9.68%) CheckPoint
9 9 (9.68%) Splunk
10 5 (5.38%) Meraki
11 4 (4.30%) Dell
11 4 (4.30%) HP
11 4 (4.30%) Infoblox
11 4 (4.30%) Symantec
12 3 (3.23%) Aruba
12 3 (3.23%) NETGEAR
12 3 (3.23%) TP-LINK
13 2 (2.15%) ConnectWise