SolarWinds Contract Job Trends

SolarWinds
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 353 449
Rank change year-on-year -153 +96 +55
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 138 172 150
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.59% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.68% 1.23% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 121 101
10th Percentile £300 £285 £400
25th Percentile £363 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +14.44%
75th Percentile £547 £582 £588
90th Percentile £600 £688 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £515
% change year-on-year -4.23% -3.69% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £42.05 - -
25th Percentile £43.11 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.72 £57.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.27% +141.60% -61.99%
75th Percentile £62.29 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £68.11 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,204 13,941 18,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.67% 47.62% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,713 8,584 11,394
10th Percentile £313 £280 £267
25th Percentile £413 £404 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £514
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.63% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,037 620 1,132
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.34 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +13.93% -45.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.06 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.63 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.27 £22.94 £21.75
% change year-on-year +31.97% +5.46% -45.04%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in the UK

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 14 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
England -154 123 £483 -3.50% 15
UK excluding London -94 112 £475 -4.23% 23
South East -30 52 £500 +8.11% 3
Work from Home -68 34 £500 - 6
South West -22 18 £426 -19.81% 5
London -107 18 £500 - 3
Midlands -72 16 £488 -12.95% 1
West Midlands -64 15 £500 -9.26% 1
North of England -87 14 £430 -9.23% 4
North West -43 10 £424 -0.29% 2
Scotland -2 8 £500 +11.11% 6
Yorkshire -61 5 £519 +8.92% 2
East of England -31 4 £363 -9.38%
East Midlands -34 1 £475 -26.95%

SolarWinds
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.17%) Apache
1 3 (2.17%) IIS
2 1 (0.72%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.72%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.07%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.64%) Azure
2 18 (13.04%) AWS
3 11 (7.97%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.35%) SaaS
6 3 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.17%) GCP
6 3 (2.17%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.17%) PaaS
6 3 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.45%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.45%) Datadog
7 2 (1.45%) GitHub
7 2 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.45%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 67 (48.55%) Firewall
2 65 (47.10%) WAN
3 63 (45.65%) LAN
4 51 (36.96%) DNS
5 43 (31.16%) DHCP
6 34 (24.64%) BGP
6 34 (24.64%) OSPF
7 32 (23.19%) VPN
8 29 (21.01%) SNMP
9 28 (20.29%) BIG-IP
10 27 (19.57%) Ethernet VPN
10 27 (19.57%) VXLAN
11 24 (17.39%) Junos
12 20 (14.49%) Cisco ISE
12 20 (14.49%) Network Security
13 17 (12.32%) VLAN
14 16 (11.59%) SD-WAN
15 14 (10.14%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (9.42%) MPLS
17 11 (7.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.45%) JIRA
1 2 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.72%) Git
General
1 35 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.07%) Law
4 6 (4.35%) Legal
5 5 (3.62%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.90%) Finance
6 4 (2.90%) Military
6 4 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.90%) Retail
7 2 (1.45%) Aviation
7 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (30.43%) Network Engineer
2 17 (12.32%) Senior
3 16 (11.59%) Consultant
4 14 (10.14%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (10.14%) Management Consultant
4 14 (10.14%) Network Specialist
5 13 (9.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (8.70%) Architect
6 12 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) DBA
7 9 (6.52%) SQL DBA
8 8 (5.80%) Administrator
9 6 (4.35%) Network Architect
9 6 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Network Manager
11 4 (2.90%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) Lead
11 4 (2.90%) Support Engineer
12 3 (2.17%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (21.01%) 802.1X
2 21 (15.22%) REST
3 4 (2.90%) LDAP
3 4 (2.90%) SAML
4 2 (1.45%) Middleware
5 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.72%) JSON
5 1 (0.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.71%) Data Centre
2 32 (23.19%) Clustering
3 27 (19.57%) PKI
4 8 (5.80%) Replication
5 7 (5.07%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.62%) CMDB
7 4 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.17%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.45%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.45%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (52.17%) Windows
2 35 (25.36%) Linux
3 19 (13.77%) AIX
4 15 (10.87%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.45%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.45%) Unix
6 2 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.72%) VMS
7 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (26.09%) High Availability
2 34 (24.64%) ITIL
3 33 (23.91%) Observability
4 31 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (21.01%) Load Balancing
6 24 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
6 24 (17.39%) Network Monitoring
7 20 (14.49%) ITSM
8 17 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (12.32%) Project Delivery
9 15 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (10.14%) Dashboard Development
11 13 (9.42%) Service Management
12 12 (8.70%) Migration
12 12 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (7.97%) Capacity Planning
13 11 (7.97%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (25.36%) PowerShell
2 30 (21.74%) SQL
3 26 (18.84%) Python
4 17 (12.32%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (2.90%) Bash
6 2 (1.45%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 79 (57.25%) Security Cleared
2 36 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 30 (21.74%) DV Cleared
4 14 (10.14%) CCNP
5 10 (7.25%) JNCIS
6 9 (6.52%) CCNA
7 7 (5.07%) JNCIA
7 7 (5.07%) JNCIP
8 5 (3.62%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (3.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.17%) CCA
10 3 (2.17%) CCIE
10 3 (2.17%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (2.17%) MCSA
10 3 (2.17%) MCSE
11 2 (1.45%) NCDA
11 2 (1.45%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) NIST
2 3 (2.17%) NCSC
2 3 (2.17%) QA
3 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) GRC
4 1 (0.72%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.72%) PMO
4 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 23 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.97%) vSphere
4 10 (7.25%) VMware NSX
5 8 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.35%) Hyper-V
6 6 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.45%) NFS
7 2 (1.45%) SRDF
8 1 (0.72%) Docker
8 1 (0.72%) Firmware
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (21.01%) Nagios
2 26 (18.84%) FortiGate
3 19 (13.77%) ZABBIX
4 18 (13.04%) Netcool
5 17 (12.32%) Tivoli
6 15 (10.87%) OpenView
6 15 (10.87%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 12 (8.70%) Ansible
8 9 (6.52%) Terraform
9 8 (5.80%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (5.07%) SCCM
10 7 (5.07%) WMI
11 6 (4.35%) vCenter Server
12 5 (3.62%) SCOM
13 4 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (2.17%) Grafana
14 3 (2.17%) Kubernetes
15 2 (1.45%) EMC VPLEX
15 2 (1.45%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 85 (61.59%) Cisco
2 54 (39.13%) Splunk
3 40 (28.99%) F5
4 37 (26.81%) Juniper
5 34 (24.64%) Palo Alto
6 27 (19.57%) Microsoft
7 24 (17.39%) VMware
8 23 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
8 23 (16.67%) ServiceNow
9 21 (15.22%) BMC
9 21 (15.22%) Fortinet
10 16 (11.59%) HP
10 16 (11.59%) IBM
11 13 (9.42%) CheckPoint
12 11 (7.97%) Aruba
12 11 (7.97%) Meraki
12 11 (7.97%) Veeam
13 8 (5.80%) RedGate
14 6 (4.35%) Dynatrace
14 6 (4.35%) NetApp