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 18 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
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 347 432
Rank change year-on-year -148 +85 +59
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 149 190 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.64% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.73% 1.34% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 132 99
10th Percentile £304 £287 £400
25th Percentile £412 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +14.44%
75th Percentile £575 £577 £588
90th Percentile £625 £689 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £515
% change year-on-year +2.15% -4.95% +15.73%
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 20,549 14,166 18,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.77% 47.59% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,890 8,715 11,489
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,053 653 1,156
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.87 £12.19
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £23.90
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% +5.23% -44.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £58.90
90th Percentile £80.04 £69.47 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.13% +2.22% -43.75%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -155 130 £500 - 25
UK excluding London -101 122 £500 +2.15% 40
South East -31 51 £520 +12.43% 11
Work from Home -64 33 £500 - 12
South West -17 20 £426 -19.81% 4
Midlands -63 20 £500 -9.26% 2
London -89 18 £500 - 3
West Midlands -58 17 £500 -9.26%
North of England -95 15 £447 -5.89% 4
Scotland 0 12 £500 +11.11% 9
North West -44 10 £430 +1.18% 3
Yorkshire -72 6 £519 +7.29% 1
East of England -27 4 £363 -9.38% 1
East Midlands -24 3 £475 -23.08% 2

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 (2.01%) Apache
1 3 (2.01%) IIS
2 2 (1.34%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (4.03%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (22.82%) Azure
2 16 (10.74%) AWS
3 11 (7.38%) Entra ID
3 11 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.03%) SaaS
5 3 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.01%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.01%) PaaS
5 3 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.34%) Azure Storage
6 2 (1.34%) Datadog
6 2 (1.34%) GCP
6 2 (1.34%) GitHub
6 2 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.34%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.34%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.67%) IaaS
7 1 (0.67%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (44.97%) Firewall
2 66 (44.30%) WAN
3 62 (41.61%) LAN
4 50 (33.56%) DNS
5 42 (28.19%) DHCP
6 32 (21.48%) BGP
7 31 (20.81%) OSPF
8 30 (20.13%) SNMP
9 29 (19.46%) BIG-IP
10 27 (18.12%) Ethernet VPN
10 27 (18.12%) VPN
10 27 (18.12%) VXLAN
11 24 (16.11%) Junos
12 22 (14.77%) Network Security
13 20 (13.42%) Cisco ISE
14 18 (12.08%) Cisco Nexus
14 18 (12.08%) SD-WAN
15 17 (11.41%) MPLS
16 13 (8.72%) VLAN
17 10 (6.71%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.34%) Power BI
4 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.68%) JIRA
2 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.67%) Git
General
1 36 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.37%) Legal
3 8 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (4.70%) Law
5 6 (4.03%) Finance
6 5 (3.36%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.68%) Military
7 4 (2.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.34%) Aviation
8 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (27.52%) Network Engineer
2 20 (13.42%) Senior
3 16 (10.74%) Consultant
4 15 (10.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (9.40%) Firewall Specialist
5 14 (9.40%) Management Consultant
5 14 (9.40%) Network Specialist
6 12 (8.05%) Architect
6 12 (8.05%) Senior Network Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) DBA
7 10 (6.71%) SQL DBA
8 8 (5.37%) Analyst
8 8 (5.37%) Network Manager
9 7 (4.70%) Administrator
10 6 (4.03%) Lead
10 6 (4.03%) Network Architect
10 6 (4.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 4 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
12 4 (2.68%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.13%) 802.1X
2 20 (13.42%) REST
3 4 (2.68%) LDAP
3 4 (2.68%) SAML
4 3 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.34%) Middleware
6 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.52%) Data Centre
2 31 (20.81%) Clustering
3 27 (18.12%) PKI
4 10 (6.71%) Security Posture
5 8 (5.37%) Replication
6 6 (4.03%) CMDB
7 5 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.01%) CSOC
9 3 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.01%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.34%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.34%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 80 (53.69%) Windows
2 41 (27.52%) Linux
3 19 (12.75%) AIX
4 18 (12.08%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.01%) Unix
5 3 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.34%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.34%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.67%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.67%) VMS
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (27.52%) ITIL
2 39 (26.17%) High Availability
3 34 (22.82%) Observability
4 31 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (20.13%) Load Balancing
6 26 (17.45%) ITSM
7 24 (16.11%) Identity Access Management
7 24 (16.11%) Network Monitoring
8 22 (14.77%) Project Delivery
9 20 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (11.41%) Service Management
12 16 (10.74%) Change Management
13 14 (9.40%) Dashboard Development
13 14 (9.40%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (8.72%) Capacity Planning
15 12 (8.05%) Performance Tuning
16 11 (7.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (26.85%) PowerShell
2 32 (21.48%) Python
2 32 (21.48%) SQL
3 17 (11.41%) Search Processing Language
4 10 (6.71%) Bash
5 4 (2.68%) Perl
6 3 (2.01%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 83 (55.70%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.49%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (23.49%) DV Cleared
2 35 (23.49%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.05%) CCNP
4 10 (6.71%) CCNA
5 9 (6.04%) JNCIS
6 7 (4.70%) JNCIA
6 7 (4.70%) JNCIP
6 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (4.03%) MCSE
8 5 (3.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (2.68%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.68%) CCIE
9 4 (2.68%) MCSA
9 4 (2.68%) PMI Certification
9 4 (2.68%) PMP
10 3 (2.01%) CCA
10 3 (2.01%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (1.34%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.03%) NIST
3 3 (2.01%) NCSC
3 3 (2.01%) QA
4 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.67%) PMO
5 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (16.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (16.11%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.05%) vSphere
4 10 (6.71%) VMware NSX
5 7 (4.70%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.03%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.68%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.34%) Firmware
8 2 (1.34%) NFS
8 2 (1.34%) SRDF
9 1 (0.67%) Docker
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (18.12%) FortiGate
2 24 (16.11%) Nagios
3 19 (12.75%) ZABBIX
4 18 (12.08%) Netcool
5 17 (11.41%) Tivoli
6 15 (10.07%) OpenView
6 15 (10.07%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 11 (7.38%) Ansible
8 8 (5.37%) Cisco Prime
8 8 (5.37%) Terraform
8 8 (5.37%) WMI
9 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (4.70%) SCCM
10 6 (4.03%) vCenter Server
11 5 (3.36%) SCOM
12 4 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (2.01%) Grafana
13 3 (2.01%) Kubernetes
14 2 (1.34%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (1.34%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 90 (60.40%) Cisco
2 55 (36.91%) Splunk
3 42 (28.19%) F5
4 39 (26.17%) Palo Alto
5 36 (24.16%) Juniper
6 29 (19.46%) Microsoft
7 26 (17.45%) VMware
8 25 (16.78%) ServiceNow
9 23 (15.44%) Extreme Networks
10 22 (14.77%) Fortinet
11 21 (14.09%) BMC
12 17 (11.41%) Aruba
13 16 (10.74%) HP
13 16 (10.74%) IBM
14 14 (9.40%) CheckPoint
15 11 (7.38%) Meraki
16 10 (6.71%) Veeam
17 9 (6.04%) RedGate
18 6 (4.03%) Dynatrace
18 6 (4.03%) NetApp