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 17 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 349 441
Rank change year-on-year -149 +92 +53
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 147 184 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.62% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.72% 1.30% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 129 99
10th Percentile £303 £285 £400
25th Percentile £409 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +14.44%
75th Percentile £574 £582 £588
90th Percentile £625 £700 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £515
% change year-on-year +4.60% -7.18% +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 20,477 14,135 18,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.69% 47.62% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,867 8,698 11,416
10th Percentile £313 £280 £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 1,051 649 1,149
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.30 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +34.31% +6.30% -44.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £59.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.72 £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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -148 128 £500 - 22
UK excluding London -96 120 £500 +4.60% 31
South East -32 51 £520 +12.43% 10
Work from Home -68 33 £500 - 10
South West -21 19 £426 -19.81% 4
Midlands -68 19 £500 -9.26% 1
London -97 18 £500 - 3
West Midlands -61 17 £500 -9.26%
North of England -84 15 £447 -3.97% 3
Scotland -1 12 £500 +11.11% 6
North West -46 10 £430 +1.18% 2
Yorkshire -60 6 £519 +11.49% 1
East of England -27 4 £363 -9.38% 1
East Midlands -24 2 £488 -25.00% 1

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 (2.04%) Apache
1 3 (2.04%) IIS
2 2 (1.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.45%) Azure
2 16 (10.88%) AWS
3 11 (7.48%) Entra ID
4 10 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.08%) SaaS
6 3 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.04%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.04%) PaaS
6 3 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.36%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.36%) Datadog
7 2 (1.36%) GCP
7 2 (1.36%) GitHub
7 2 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.36%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.36%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.68%) IaaS
8 1 (0.68%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.68%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (45.58%) Firewall
2 66 (44.90%) WAN
3 62 (42.18%) LAN
4 49 (33.33%) DNS
5 41 (27.89%) DHCP
6 32 (21.77%) BGP
7 31 (21.09%) OSPF
8 30 (20.41%) SNMP
9 29 (19.73%) BIG-IP
10 27 (18.37%) Ethernet VPN
10 27 (18.37%) VPN
10 27 (18.37%) VXLAN
11 24 (16.33%) Junos
12 22 (14.97%) Network Security
13 20 (13.61%) Cisco ISE
14 18 (12.24%) Cisco Nexus
14 18 (12.24%) SD-WAN
15 17 (11.56%) MPLS
16 13 (8.84%) VLAN
17 10 (6.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.36%) Power BI
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.72%) JIRA
2 2 (1.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 36 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.44%) Legal
3 8 (5.44%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (4.76%) Law
5 6 (4.08%) Finance
6 4 (2.72%) Military
6 4 (2.72%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.72%) Retail
7 2 (1.36%) Aviation
7 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (27.89%) Network Engineer
2 19 (12.93%) Senior
3 16 (10.88%) Consultant
4 14 (9.52%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (9.52%) Management Consultant
4 14 (9.52%) Network Specialist
5 12 (8.16%) Architect
5 12 (8.16%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (6.80%) DBA
6 10 (6.80%) SQL DBA
7 8 (5.44%) Network Manager
8 7 (4.76%) Administrator
8 7 (4.76%) Analyst
9 6 (4.08%) Lead
9 6 (4.08%) Network Architect
9 6 (4.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 4 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (2.72%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.41%) 802.1X
2 20 (13.61%) REST
3 4 (2.72%) LDAP
3 4 (2.72%) SAML
4 2 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.36%) Middleware
5 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.89%) Data Centre
2 31 (21.09%) Clustering
3 27 (18.37%) PKI
4 9 (6.12%) Security Posture
5 8 (5.44%) Replication
6 6 (4.08%) CMDB
7 4 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.04%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.36%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.36%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 78 (53.06%) Windows
2 40 (27.21%) Linux
3 19 (12.93%) AIX
4 17 (11.56%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.04%) Unix
5 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.36%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.68%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.68%) VMS
7 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.21%) ITIL
2 38 (25.85%) High Availability
3 34 (23.13%) Observability
4 31 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (20.41%) Load Balancing
6 25 (17.01%) ITSM
7 24 (16.33%) Identity Access Management
7 24 (16.33%) Network Monitoring
8 22 (14.97%) Project Delivery
9 20 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (10.88%) Change Management
11 16 (10.88%) Service Management
12 14 (9.52%) Dashboard Development
12 14 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (8.84%) Capacity Planning
14 12 (8.16%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (7.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (26.53%) PowerShell
2 32 (21.77%) SQL
3 31 (21.09%) Python
4 17 (11.56%) Search Processing Language
5 9 (6.12%) Bash
6 3 (2.04%) Perl
6 3 (2.04%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 81 (55.10%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (23.13%) DV Cleared
3 34 (23.13%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.16%) CCNP
5 10 (6.80%) CCNA
6 9 (6.12%) JNCIS
7 7 (4.76%) JNCIA
7 7 (4.76%) JNCIP
7 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (4.08%) MCSE
9 5 (3.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.72%) CCIE
10 4 (2.72%) MCSA
10 4 (2.72%) PMI Certification
10 4 (2.72%) PMP
11 3 (2.04%) CCA
11 3 (2.04%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (1.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (4.08%) NIST
2 3 (2.04%) NCSC
2 3 (2.04%) QA
3 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) GRC
4 1 (0.68%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.68%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (15.65%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.48%) vSphere
4 10 (6.80%) VMware NSX
5 7 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.72%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.36%) Firmware
8 2 (1.36%) NFS
8 2 (1.36%) SRDF
9 1 (0.68%) Docker
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (18.37%) FortiGate
2 24 (16.33%) Nagios
3 19 (12.93%) ZABBIX
4 18 (12.24%) Netcool
5 17 (11.56%) Tivoli
6 15 (10.20%) OpenView
6 15 (10.20%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 11 (7.48%) Ansible
8 8 (5.44%) Cisco Prime
8 8 (5.44%) Terraform
8 8 (5.44%) WMI
9 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (4.76%) SCCM
10 6 (4.08%) vCenter Server
11 5 (3.40%) SCOM
12 4 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (2.04%) Grafana
13 3 (2.04%) Kubernetes
14 2 (1.36%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (1.36%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 90 (61.22%) Cisco
2 55 (37.41%) Splunk
3 42 (28.57%) F5
4 39 (26.53%) Palo Alto
5 36 (24.49%) Juniper
6 28 (19.05%) Microsoft
7 25 (17.01%) ServiceNow
7 25 (17.01%) VMware
8 23 (15.65%) Extreme Networks
9 22 (14.97%) Fortinet
10 21 (14.29%) BMC
11 17 (11.56%) Aruba
12 16 (10.88%) HP
12 16 (10.88%) IBM
13 14 (9.52%) CheckPoint
14 11 (7.48%) Meraki
15 10 (6.80%) Veeam
16 9 (6.12%) RedGate
17 6 (4.08%) Dynatrace
17 6 (4.08%) NetApp