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 15 October 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
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 416 410
Rank change year-on-year -132 -6 +45
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 149 147 153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.44% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 0.93% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 109 79
10th Percentile £400 £371 £310
25th Percentile £450 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -2.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £496 £475
% change year-on-year +8.37% +4.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £47.57 £58.15 -
25th Percentile £58.13 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +179.41% -63.93%
75th Percentile - £67.25 £27.35
90th Percentile - - £33.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 -
% change year-on-year +3.38% - -

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 23,078 15,851 16,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.74% 44.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,920 9,777 9,878
10th Percentile £310 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £613 £625
90th Percentile £712 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 804 580
10th Percentile £13.68 £14.84 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.03 £17.87 £16.85
Median hourly rate £24.19 £24.81 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -24.82% -24.83%
75th Percentile £56.00 £38.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.30 £31.00
% change year-on-year +8.83% -31.29% -29.14%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -131 126 £538 +9.25% 28
UK excluding London -80 119 £538 +8.37% 24
South East -59 42 £538 +7.50% 6
Work from Home -72 31 £591 +24.39% 13
Midlands -39 21 £575 +16.46% 4
London -94 21 £450 -7.69% 6
West Midlands -37 19 £575 +16.46% 4
Scotland -7 18 £475 -
South West -41 14 £685 +24.55% 6
North of England -84 14 £400 -15.79% 5
East of England -19 10 - - 3
North West -51 6 £400 -15.79% 3
North East -32 5 £225 -55.00% 1
Yorkshire -55 3 £397 -16.95% 1
East Midlands - 2 £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 2 (1.34%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (25.50%) Azure
2 14 (9.40%) AWS
3 8 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.03%) Rubrik
4 6 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (3.36%) Datadog
5 5 (3.36%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.68%) IaaS
6 4 (2.68%) PaaS
7 3 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.01%) GCP
7 3 (2.01%) GitHub
7 3 (2.01%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.01%) SaaS
8 2 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.34%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (32.89%) Firewall
2 48 (32.21%) DNS
3 46 (30.87%) LAN
4 42 (28.19%) WAN
5 41 (27.52%) Network Security
6 31 (20.81%) BGP
7 30 (20.13%) VPN
8 29 (19.46%) DHCP
9 27 (18.12%) OSPF
10 21 (14.09%) Cisco Nexus
11 20 (13.42%) MPLS
11 20 (13.42%) SNMP
12 18 (12.08%) Cisco ASA
12 18 (12.08%) TCP/IP
13 17 (11.41%) SSL
13 17 (11.41%) VLAN
14 16 (10.74%) SD-WAN
14 16 (10.74%) Wireless
15 15 (10.07%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (9.40%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.74%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.01%) Power BI
4 2 (1.34%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.67%) Metadata
5 1 (0.67%) MySQL
5 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (3.36%) JIRA
2 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.34%) Git
3 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 36 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.05%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (5.37%) Legal
5 6 (4.03%) Finance
5 6 (4.03%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.36%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Aviation
8 1 (0.67%) Electronics
8 1 (0.67%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (28.19%) Network Engineer
2 17 (11.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (10.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (9.40%) Senior
5 11 (7.38%) Support Engineer
6 10 (6.71%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 9 (6.04%) Architect
7 9 (6.04%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) DBA
8 8 (5.37%) Lead
9 7 (4.70%) Administrator
9 7 (4.70%) Consultant
9 7 (4.70%) SQL DBA
10 6 (4.03%) Analyst
10 6 (4.03%) Data Centre Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Network Architect
11 5 (3.36%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.07%) Terraform
2 10 (6.71%) 802.1X
2 10 (6.71%) REST
3 3 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.01%) SAML
4 2 (1.34%) LDAP
4 2 (1.34%) YAML
5 1 (0.67%) JSON
5 1 (0.67%) Loki
5 1 (0.67%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.67%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Streams
5 1 (0.67%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.42%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.04%) CMDB
3 8 (5.37%) PKI
4 7 (4.70%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (4.70%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.03%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.36%) Replication
6 5 (3.36%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.68%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (2.68%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.01%) Clustering
8 3 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.01%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.01%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 74 (49.66%) Windows
2 45 (30.20%) Linux
3 23 (15.44%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (6.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.03%) AIX
7 2 (1.34%) Unix
8 1 (0.67%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.19%) ITIL
2 33 (22.15%) ITSM
3 27 (18.12%) Network Monitoring
3 27 (18.12%) Project Delivery
4 26 (17.45%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (14.77%) Network Virtualisation
6 21 (14.09%) High Availability
6 21 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (13.42%) Service Delivery
8 19 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (12.08%) Agile
9 18 (12.08%) Service Management
10 16 (10.74%) Load Balancing
11 15 (10.07%) Task Automation
12 14 (9.40%) DevOps
12 14 (9.40%) Network Management
12 14 (9.40%) Security Operations
12 14 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.82%) PowerShell
2 25 (16.78%) SQL
3 24 (16.11%) Python
4 15 (10.07%) Bash
5 6 (4.03%) Search Processing Language
5 6 (4.03%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.68%) Perl
7 1 (0.67%) Java
7 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (50.34%) Security Cleared
2 47 (31.54%) DV Cleared
3 24 (16.11%) SC Cleared
4 22 (14.77%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (10.07%) CCNA
6 14 (9.40%) CCNP
7 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.70%) MCSE
8 7 (4.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (4.03%) Degree
10 5 (3.36%) CCIE
10 5 (3.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.68%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.68%) MCSA
12 3 (2.01%) CCA
12 3 (2.01%) CISM
12 3 (2.01%) CISSP
12 3 (2.01%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (2.01%) CRISC
13 2 (1.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.71%) NIST
2 8 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.68%) NCSC
4 3 (2.01%) GDPR
4 3 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) JSP 440
System Software
1 47 (31.54%) Active Directory
2 46 (30.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (12.08%) vSphere
4 16 (10.74%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (10.07%) VMware NSX
6 9 (6.04%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (5.37%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.34%) Docker
8 2 (1.34%) Firmware
8 2 (1.34%) NFS
9 1 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.67%) Samba
9 1 (0.67%) SRDF
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (16.78%) SCOM
2 22 (14.77%) Nagios
3 17 (11.41%) vCenter Server
4 10 (6.71%) Ansible
4 10 (6.71%) SCCM
5 9 (6.04%) WMI
6 8 (5.37%) ZABBIX
7 7 (4.70%) NetBackup
8 6 (4.03%) FortiGate
8 6 (4.03%) Grafana
9 5 (3.36%) Netcool
9 5 (3.36%) Tivoli
10 4 (2.68%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
10 4 (2.68%) SolarWinds Orion
11 3 (2.01%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (2.01%) OpenView
11 3 (2.01%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 2 (1.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 79 (53.02%) Cisco
2 57 (38.26%) VMware
3 44 (29.53%) Palo Alto
4 36 (24.16%) Splunk
5 34 (22.82%) Microsoft
6 32 (21.48%) ServiceNow
7 27 (18.12%) F5
8 20 (13.42%) Fortinet
9 15 (10.07%) Aruba
10 12 (8.05%) Meraki
10 12 (8.05%) Veeam
11 11 (7.38%) Broadcom
12 10 (6.71%) Juniper
13 9 (6.04%) CheckPoint
13 9 (6.04%) Citrix
13 9 (6.04%) Commvault
14 8 (5.37%) BMC
15 7 (4.70%) Dynatrace
15 7 (4.70%) NetApp
16 6 (4.03%) CyberArk