SolarWinds Orion Contract Job Trends

SolarWinds Orion
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SolarWinds Orion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 520 580
Rank change year-on-year -80 +60 +160
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds Orion 1 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.029% 0.023%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.016% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 9
10th Percentile - £349 £458
25th Percentile £584 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £461 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.77% -12.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £651 £491 £580
90th Percentile - £500 £603
UK excluding London median daily rate £617 £479 £575
% change year-on-year +28.88% -16.74% +46.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.00

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 6,251 4,759 5,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 15.45% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,322 3,100 3,874
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -2.00% +0.25% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 55 158
10th Percentile £17.73 £16.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% -3.79%
75th Percentile £63.91 £54.25 £61.81
90th Percentile £79.80 £72.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.25 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +113.54% -48.03% +0.28%

SolarWinds Orion
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SolarWinds Orion job vacancy trend in the UK

SolarWinds Orion
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SolarWinds Orion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SolarWinds Orion

SolarWinds Orion
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SolarWinds Orion.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SolarWinds Orion

SolarWinds Orion
Top 4 Contract Job 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 19 February 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
UK excluding London -58 1 £617 +28.88%
West Midlands -59 1 £617 +65.08%
Midlands -67 1 £617 +34.86%
England -83 1 £617 +33.77%

SolarWinds Orion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware