SolarWinds Contracts

SolarWinds
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 552 614
Rank change year-on-year +107 +62 -93
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 153 168 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.83% 0.65% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 115 152
10th Percentile £325 £209 £300
25th Percentile £420 £356 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £463 £458
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% +0.93% +22.20%
75th Percentile £613 £573 £538
90th Percentile £650 £635 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +16.17% +2.94% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 15
10th Percentile - £56.68 £13.96
25th Percentile £23.80 £62.00 £21.27
Median hourly rate £28.15 £62.62 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.04% +40.71% +78.00%
75th Percentile £42.19 £63.23 £48.67
90th Percentile £57.38 £69.61 £61.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year +0.61% +40.71% +112.41%

All Vendors
UK

SolarWinds is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 14 Contract 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 April 2024. 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 +129 140 £525 +10.53% 47
UK excluding London +69 110 £508 +16.17% 23
South East +55 50 £519 +22.06% 2
Work from Home +133 38 £488 -7.14% 27
London +90 37 £525 -4.11% 25
North of England +41 29 £515 +17.05% 4
North West +33 27 £513 +57.69% 2
South West +8 13 £435 -20.91% 6
Scotland +35 9 £435 -13.00% 2
East Midlands +21 7 £600 +84.62%
Midlands +17 7 £600 +84.62% 4
Yorkshire +11 2 £650 +34.72% 2
East of England +13 1 £350 -42.86% 5
Wales +5 1 £208 +1.22%

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (8.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.61%) IIS
4 3 (1.96%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (4.58%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.58%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (22.88%) Azure
2 30 (19.61%) AWS
3 13 (8.50%) GitHub
4 12 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.58%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.58%) GCP
6 6 (3.92%) IaaS
6 6 (3.92%) SaaS
7 5 (3.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (3.27%) Mimecast
7 5 (3.27%) OCI
7 5 (3.27%) PaaS
8 4 (2.61%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.31%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.31%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.65%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 95 (62.09%) Firewall
2 37 (24.18%) DNS
3 31 (20.26%) BGP
3 31 (20.26%) LAN
3 31 (20.26%) OSPF
4 30 (19.61%) Cisco ASA
4 30 (19.61%) Cisco ISE
5 28 (18.30%) WAN
6 27 (17.65%) IPsec
7 26 (16.99%) DHCP
8 25 (16.34%) VPN
9 24 (15.69%) Wireless
10 21 (13.73%) EIGRP
11 20 (13.07%) Cisco Nexus
11 20 (13.07%) HSRP
12 19 (12.42%) NetScaler
13 18 (11.76%) SNMP
13 18 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (9.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.96%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.96%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.65%) MySQL
4 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.88%) GitLab
2 4 (2.61%) Git
2 4 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.96%) JIRA
4 2 (1.31%) Subversion
5 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (16.99%) Public Sector
2 19 (12.42%) Finance
3 13 (8.50%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.54%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.58%) Electronics
6 7 (4.58%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.58%) Marketing
7 5 (3.27%) Legal
8 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Military
9 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.65%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 26 (16.99%) Senior
3 20 (13.07%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (7.19%) Architect
4 11 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (6.54%) Network Architect
6 8 (5.23%) Cisco Engineer
6 8 (5.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 8 (5.23%) Database Specialist
7 7 (4.58%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Platform Specialist
9 5 (3.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Lead
9 5 (3.27%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Wintel Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) Analyst
10 4 (2.61%) IT Support
10 4 (2.61%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.84%) Jinja
2 8 (5.23%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.96%) SAML
4 2 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.31%) JSON
4 2 (1.31%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.65%) .NET
5 1 (0.65%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.65%) LDAP
5 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.99%) Data Centre
2 17 (11.11%) PKI
3 11 (7.19%) Clustering
4 9 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.23%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.23%) NHS
5 8 (5.23%) Replication
6 4 (2.61%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.61%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.96%) CMDB
7 3 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.31%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.26%) Windows
2 22 (14.38%) Linux
3 15 (9.80%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.23%) Unix
4 8 (5.23%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.61%) Solaris
8 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.31%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.31%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.65%) VMS
10 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (24.84%) ITIL
2 26 (16.99%) Change Management
3 23 (15.03%) High Availability
3 23 (15.03%) Network Architecture
4 21 (13.73%) ITSM
5 20 (13.07%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (12.42%) Network Management
7 18 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (11.76%) Migration
7 18 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
8 17 (11.11%) Capacity Management
9 15 (9.80%) Task Automation
10 13 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (7.84%) DevOps
11 12 (7.84%) Service Management
12 11 (7.19%) Agile
12 11 (7.19%) Computer Science
12 11 (7.19%) Data Migration
12 11 (7.19%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (6.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.92%) Python
2 25 (16.34%) PowerShell
3 14 (9.15%) Bash
3 14 (9.15%) Perl
4 13 (8.50%) SQL
5 12 (7.84%) Tcl
6 2 (1.31%) VBScript
7 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 56 (36.60%) Cisco Certification
3 53 (34.64%) SC Cleared
4 42 (27.45%) CCNP
5 34 (22.22%) CCNA
6 19 (12.42%) Degree
7 13 (8.50%) CCIE
8 7 (4.58%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.27%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.61%) MCSA
10 4 (2.61%) MCSE
11 3 (1.96%) VCAP
12 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (1.31%) MCP
12 2 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.92%) SLA
2 2 (1.31%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.31%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) NIST
3 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 25 (16.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (9.15%) vSphere
4 13 (8.50%) Firmware
5 11 (7.19%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (3.27%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (2.61%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.61%) XenApp
9 3 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.31%) BitLocker
10 2 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.65%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.65%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (24.84%) Ansible
2 27 (17.65%) Terraform
3 11 (7.19%) SCCM
4 8 (5.23%) SolarWinds Orion
4 8 (5.23%) VxRail
4 8 (5.23%) WSUS
5 7 (4.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (4.58%) SCOM
6 6 (3.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (3.27%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.27%) Nagios
7 5 (3.27%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.27%) Puppet
7 5 (3.27%) vCenter Server
7 5 (3.27%) vRealize
8 4 (2.61%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.96%) OpenView
9 3 (1.96%) OPNET
10 2 (1.31%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 72 (47.06%) Cisco
2 40 (26.14%) F5
2 40 (26.14%) VMware
3 38 (24.84%) Palo Alto
4 30 (19.61%) Microsoft
5 27 (17.65%) Citrix
6 20 (13.07%) CheckPoint
7 15 (9.80%) Fortinet
8 13 (8.50%) Red Hat
9 12 (7.84%) Dell
10 11 (7.19%) Juniper
11 9 (5.88%) Meraki
12 8 (5.23%) Infoblox
12 8 (5.23%) Oracle
12 8 (5.23%) Veeam
13 7 (4.58%) SAP
14 5 (3.27%) Google
14 5 (3.27%) Symantec
15 4 (2.61%) Forcepoint
15 4 (2.61%) HP