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 27 November 2025, 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
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 402 441
Rank change year-on-year -18 +39 +170
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 157 157 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.43% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.92% 0.95% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 90 105
10th Percentile £356 £300 £315
25th Percentile £415 £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £471 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% -10.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £610 £631
90th Percentile £628 £715 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £458 £475
% change year-on-year +9.29% -3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile £58.15 £25.22 £33.21
25th Percentile £61.00 £27.35 £54.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 £30.90 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +115.21% -53.17% +15.75%
75th Percentile £67.25 £34.45 -
90th Percentile - £36.58 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +15.75%

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 17,146 16,529 20,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.47% 45.05% 45.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,814 9,727 13,173
10th Percentile £288 £291 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 871 530 671
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.36 £19.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +72.95%
75th Percentile £43.23 £63.45 £64.08
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.41 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.52% -38.20% +97.78%

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 27 November 2025.

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
Top 15 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 27 November 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 -29 134 £500 +7.07% 46
UK excluding London -57 108 £500 +9.29% 47
South East -12 36 £500 +18.34% 25
Work from Home -1 34 £450 -10.00% 8
London +3 30 £500 -8.84% 6
West Midlands -15 27 £429 -18.33% 5
Midlands -27 27 £429 -22.05% 6
North of England -52 20 £475 - 2
South West 0 16 £550 +32.13% 7
Yorkshire -29 12 £482 +114.33%
North West -46 8 £475 - 2
Channel Islands - 3 £725 -
Scotland - 3 £475 - 1
East of England -14 2 £363 -37.23% 1
Wales 0 1 £190 - 3

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 11 (7.01%) Confluence
1 11 (7.01%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.82%) Skype for Business
4 4 (2.55%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.27%) Apache
5 2 (1.27%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.38%) Azure
2 26 (16.56%) AWS
3 11 (7.01%) Datadog
4 8 (5.10%) GCP
5 7 (4.46%) Akamai
6 6 (3.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (3.18%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.55%) Cohesity
8 4 (2.55%) SaaS
8 4 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.91%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.91%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.27%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.27%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.64%) IaaS
11 1 (0.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (46.50%) Firewall
2 54 (34.39%) Cisco ISE
3 36 (22.93%) WAN
4 35 (22.29%) BGP
5 34 (21.66%) OSPF
6 32 (20.38%) DNS
7 29 (18.47%) Wireless
8 27 (17.20%) Cisco Firepower
8 27 (17.20%) VLAN
9 26 (16.56%) Cisco IOS
9 26 (16.56%) Network Security
9 26 (16.56%) SD-WAN
10 22 (14.01%) DHCP
10 22 (14.01%) VPN
11 21 (13.38%) Junos
12 20 (12.74%) Cisco Nexus
12 20 (12.74%) LAN
13 19 (12.10%) EIGRP
14 18 (11.46%) Wireshark
15 17 (10.83%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (6.37%) JIRA
2 5 (3.18%) Git
3 4 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 34 (21.66%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.11%) Public Sector
3 22 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.55%) Finance
5 5 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.91%) Banking
7 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.91%) Local Government
8 2 (1.27%) Law
8 2 (1.27%) Legal
8 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.64%) French Language
9 1 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (48.41%) Network Engineer
2 24 (15.29%) Support Engineer
3 21 (13.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 20 (12.74%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 20 (12.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (12.74%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 19 (12.10%) Analyst
5 19 (12.10%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 17 (10.83%) 3rd Line Support
6 17 (10.83%) Network Support
6 17 (10.83%) Network Support Engineer
7 16 (10.19%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 12 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (7.01%) Security Engineer
10 10 (6.37%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 9 (5.73%) Cisco Engineer
11 9 (5.73%) Senior
12 8 (5.10%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 8 (5.10%) Network Security Engineer
12 8 (5.10%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.55%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.65%) Data Centre
2 13 (8.28%) PKI
3 11 (7.01%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.46%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.82%) CMDB
5 6 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.18%) Replication
7 4 (2.55%) Clustering
8 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.91%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.91%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) SCADA
9 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (29.30%) Windows
2 32 (20.38%) Windows Server
3 23 (14.65%) Linux
4 6 (3.82%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.91%) Unix
7 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.64%) Solaris
8 1 (0.64%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (19.75%) Service Management
2 28 (17.83%) ITSM
3 22 (14.01%) Agile
3 22 (14.01%) ITIL
4 21 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (10.83%) Network Monitoring
6 15 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (8.92%) High Availability
8 12 (7.64%) Asset Management
9 10 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (6.37%) Migration
9 10 (6.37%) Network Segmentation
9 10 (6.37%) Performance Monitoring
9 10 (6.37%) Project Delivery
10 9 (5.73%) Change Management
10 9 (5.73%) Computer Science
10 9 (5.73%) Mentoring
10 9 (5.73%) Network Design
11 8 (5.10%) Load Balancing
11 8 (5.10%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.01%) PowerShell
2 20 (12.74%) Python
3 7 (4.46%) Bash
3 7 (4.46%) Perl
3 7 (4.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (47.13%) Security Cleared
2 40 (25.48%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (21.66%) SC Cleared
4 32 (20.38%) CCNP
4 32 (20.38%) DV Cleared
5 17 (10.83%) CCNA
6 16 (10.19%) Degree
7 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (5.10%) CCIE
8 8 (5.10%) MCSE
9 6 (3.82%) CCSA
9 6 (3.82%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (3.18%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.55%) CISSP
12 3 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.91%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.91%) CCDP
12 3 (1.91%) CCSP
12 3 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.82%) GDPR
1 6 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (3.82%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.55%) NIST
3 2 (1.27%) NCSC
3 2 (1.27%) SLA
4 1 (0.64%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.64%) QA
4 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (26.11%) Active Directory
2 39 (24.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (19.75%) VMware NSX
4 12 (7.64%) vSphere
5 7 (4.46%) Firmware
5 7 (4.46%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (3.18%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.64%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.64%) XenApp
8 1 (0.64%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (21.02%) vCenter Server
2 25 (15.92%) Ansible
3 18 (11.46%) SCCM
4 10 (6.37%) FortiGate
4 10 (6.37%) vRealize
4 10 (6.37%) VxRail
4 10 (6.37%) WSUS
5 9 (5.73%) Terraform
6 5 (3.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (3.18%) SCOM
7 4 (2.55%) CA Spectrum
7 4 (2.55%) Nagios
8 3 (1.91%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (1.91%) Iperf
8 3 (1.91%) Nmap
8 3 (1.91%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (1.27%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.64%) Autotask
10 1 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 124 (78.98%) Cisco
2 44 (28.03%) VMware
3 39 (24.84%) Juniper
4 36 (22.93%) F5
5 28 (17.83%) Fortinet
6 26 (16.56%) Palo Alto
7 23 (14.65%) CheckPoint
7 23 (14.65%) Microsoft
8 21 (13.38%) Veeam
9 19 (12.10%) LogicMonitor
10 17 (10.83%) Meraki
11 15 (9.55%) Dell
12 13 (8.28%) ServiceNow
13 12 (7.64%) Commvault
14 11 (7.01%) AppDynamics
14 11 (7.01%) IBM
14 11 (7.01%) Splunk
15 9 (5.73%) HP
16 6 (3.82%) Tanium
17 5 (3.18%) Oracle