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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 409 438
Rank change year-on-year -119 +29 +13
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 153 151 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.46% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.67% 0.97% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 110 77
10th Percentile £353 £334 £295
25th Percentile £425 £402 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.18% -4.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £547 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £484 £469
% change year-on-year +11.11% +3.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £44.86 £58.15 -
25th Percentile £46.56 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.25 £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +179.41% -63.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.25 £27.35
90th Percentile - - £33.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.25 £66.50 -
% change year-on-year -12.41% - -

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 22,879 15,566 16,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.86% 47.26% 44.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,025 9,545 10,148
10th Percentile £313 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £614 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,259 789 677
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.26
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.30 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -16.17% -31.56%
75th Percentile £63.75 £43.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.36% -29.37% -27.71%

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 September 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 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

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 17 September 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 -133 128 £529 +10.73% 97
UK excluding London -91 123 £538 +11.11% 60
South East -56 45 £538 +10.26% 14
Work from Home -59 28 £582 +29.28% 28
Midlands -38 23 £575 +16.46% 3
West Midlands -45 20 £575 +16.46% 3
London -111 19 £450 -5.26% 32
Scotland -7 18 £475 +5.56% 2
South West -40 18 £569 +3.41% 12
North of England -100 13 £400 -15.79% 9
East of England -25 6 - - 20
North West -50 6 £400 - 7
Yorkshire -60 4 £519 +8.58% 1
North East -39 3 £225 -55.00% 1
East Midlands - 3 £475 -

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 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (24.18%) Azure
2 16 (10.46%) AWS
3 6 (3.92%) Datadog
3 6 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (3.92%) Rubrik
3 6 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (2.61%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.61%) GitHub
6 3 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.96%) GCP
6 3 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.96%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.96%) SaaS
7 2 (1.31%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.31%) IaaS
7 2 (1.31%) PaaS
8 1 (0.65%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 51 (33.33%) Firewall
2 50 (32.68%) DNS
3 48 (31.37%) LAN
3 48 (31.37%) WAN
4 39 (25.49%) Network Security
5 30 (19.61%) BGP
5 30 (19.61%) DHCP
6 29 (18.95%) VPN
7 26 (16.99%) OSPF
7 26 (16.99%) SNMP
8 21 (13.73%) Cisco Nexus
9 20 (13.07%) MPLS
10 18 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (11.11%) SD-WAN
11 17 (11.11%) VLAN
11 17 (11.11%) Wireless
12 15 (9.80%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (9.15%) BIG-IP
13 14 (9.15%) IPsec
13 14 (9.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.15%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.96%) Power BI
4 1 (0.65%) Metadata
4 1 (0.65%) MySQL
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.92%) JIRA
2 3 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.31%) Git
3 2 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 39 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.50%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.23%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (5.23%) Legal
5 6 (3.92%) Finance
5 6 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.27%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.31%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Aviation
9 1 (0.65%) Electronics
9 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (26.14%) Network Engineer
2 15 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (9.15%) Senior
4 13 (8.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (8.50%) Consultant
5 10 (6.54%) Management Consultant
5 10 (6.54%) Support Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Architect
6 9 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Administrator
7 7 (4.58%) DBA
7 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Lead
7 7 (4.58%) SQL DBA
8 6 (3.92%) Analyst
8 6 (3.92%) Network Architect
8 6 (3.92%) Network Manager
9 5 (3.27%) Data Centre Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.80%) REST
2 14 (9.15%) Terraform
3 13 (8.50%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.96%) SAML
5 2 (1.31%) LDAP
5 2 (1.31%) YAML
6 1 (0.65%) JSON
6 1 (0.65%) Loki
6 1 (0.65%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.65%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.65%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.38%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.19%) PKI
3 8 (5.23%) CMDB
4 7 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.58%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.92%) Clustering
5 6 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.27%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (3.27%) Replication
7 4 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.61%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (2.61%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.96%) CSOC
8 3 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.96%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.96%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (51.63%) Windows
2 49 (32.03%) Linux
3 19 (12.42%) Windows Server
4 13 (8.50%) AIX
5 10 (6.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.31%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.31%) Unix
8 1 (0.65%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.76%) ITIL
2 32 (20.92%) ITSM
3 29 (18.95%) Project Delivery
4 28 (18.30%) Network Monitoring
5 25 (16.34%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (15.69%) High Availability
7 23 (15.03%) Network Virtualisation
8 21 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (13.07%) Service Delivery
9 20 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (12.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (11.76%) Agile
11 18 (11.76%) Service Management
12 16 (10.46%) Load Balancing
12 16 (10.46%) Observability
13 14 (9.15%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (9.15%) Task Automation
14 13 (8.50%) Change Management
14 13 (8.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 40 (26.14%) PowerShell
2 32 (20.92%) Python
3 27 (17.65%) SQL
4 16 (10.46%) Bash
5 11 (7.19%) Search Processing Language
6 6 (3.92%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.61%) Perl
8 1 (0.65%) Java
8 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (54.25%) Security Cleared
2 44 (28.76%) DV Cleared
3 32 (20.92%) SC Cleared
4 24 (15.69%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (9.15%) CCNA
6 12 (7.84%) CCNP
7 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.58%) Degree
8 7 (4.58%) MCSE
9 5 (3.27%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.27%) CCIE
10 4 (2.61%) MCSA
11 3 (1.96%) CCA
11 3 (1.96%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.96%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.96%) PMP
12 2 (1.31%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (1.31%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.23%) NIST
2 6 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.61%) NCSC
4 2 (1.31%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.31%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 42 (27.45%) Active Directory
1 42 (27.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (10.46%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (9.80%) VMware NSX
4 14 (9.15%) vSphere
5 9 (5.88%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.23%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.96%) NFS
8 2 (1.31%) Docker
8 2 (1.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.31%) Firmware
8 2 (1.31%) SRDF
9 1 (0.65%) Samba
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (15.69%) Nagios
1 24 (15.69%) SCOM
2 17 (11.11%) vCenter Server
3 15 (9.80%) ZABBIX
4 12 (7.84%) Netcool
4 12 (7.84%) Tivoli
5 11 (7.19%) Ansible
6 10 (6.54%) FortiGate
6 10 (6.54%) OpenView
6 10 (6.54%) SCCM
6 10 (6.54%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 8 (5.23%) NetBackup
7 8 (5.23%) WMI
8 7 (4.58%) Grafana
9 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
10 4 (2.61%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (2.61%) SolarWinds Orion
11 3 (1.96%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 82 (53.59%) Cisco
2 52 (33.99%) VMware
3 46 (30.07%) Splunk
4 43 (28.10%) Palo Alto
5 33 (21.57%) Microsoft
6 30 (19.61%) F5
7 29 (18.95%) ServiceNow
8 20 (13.07%) Fortinet
9 16 (10.46%) Aruba
10 15 (9.80%) BMC
11 14 (9.15%) Juniper
12 11 (7.19%) IBM
12 11 (7.19%) Meraki
13 10 (6.54%) Broadcom
13 10 (6.54%) HP
13 10 (6.54%) Veeam
14 9 (5.88%) Citrix
15 8 (5.23%) CheckPoint
16 7 (4.58%) NetApp
17 6 (3.92%) Commvault