SolarWinds Orion Contracts

SolarWinds Orion
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SolarWinds Orion skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SolarWinds Orion over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 579 673
Rank change year-on-year +41 +94 +201
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds Orion 1 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.025% 0.022%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.020% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £471 £363
25th Percentile £285 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% -4.76% +75.00%
75th Percentile £295 £525 £575
90th Percentile - £551 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -42.00% -4.76% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SolarWinds Orion falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,930 5,405 8,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 12.43% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,279 3,851 6,094
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 103 185
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.05 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £32.77 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.33 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.74 £71.25 £83.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +118.75%

SolarWinds Orion
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SolarWinds Orion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds Orion in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds Orion.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds Orion in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds Orion.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds Orion in the UK

SolarWinds Orion
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds Orion within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +51 1 £290 -42.00% 2
UK excluding London +29 1 £290 -42.00%
Midlands - 1 £290 -
West Midlands - 1 £290 -

SolarWinds Orion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware