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 16 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
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 345 436
Rank change year-on-year -146 +91 +49
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 144 179 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.60% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 1.27% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 124 99
10th Percentile £302 £285 £400
25th Percentile £395 £397 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +14.44%
75th Percentile £573 £581 £588
90th Percentile £625 £689 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £485 £515
% change year-on-year -0.52% -5.83% +14.44%
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 20,424 14,104 18,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.68% 47.61% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,835 8,673 11,415
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 1,048 645 1,150
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.35 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +7.14% -44.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £59.30
90th Percentile £79.65 £69.29 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £23.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +35.87% +2.22% -43.15%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -145 126 £500 - 24
UK excluding London -100 117 £483 -0.52% 32
South East -33 51 £520 +12.43% 9
Work from Home -49 33 £500 - 9
South West -21 19 £426 -19.81% 4
London -115 18 £500 - 4
Midlands -70 17 £500 -9.26% 1
West Midlands -66 16 £500 -9.26%
North of England -85 15 £447 -5.65% 5
Scotland 0 11 £500 +11.11% 9
North West -48 10 £430 +1.18% 3
Yorkshire -55 6 £519 +8.92% 1
East of England -30 4 £363 -9.38% 1
East Midlands -28 1 £475 -26.92% 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 (2.08%) Apache
1 3 (2.08%) IIS
2 2 (1.39%) Confluence
3 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (4.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.22%) Azure
2 16 (11.11%) AWS
3 11 (7.64%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.17%) SaaS
6 3 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.08%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.08%) PaaS
6 3 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.39%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.39%) Datadog
7 2 (1.39%) GCP
7 2 (1.39%) GitHub
7 2 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.39%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.69%) IaaS
8 1 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (46.53%) Firewall
2 65 (45.14%) WAN
3 61 (42.36%) LAN
4 48 (33.33%) DNS
5 40 (27.78%) DHCP
6 32 (22.22%) BGP
7 31 (21.53%) OSPF
8 29 (20.14%) BIG-IP
8 29 (20.14%) SNMP
9 27 (18.75%) Ethernet VPN
9 27 (18.75%) VPN
9 27 (18.75%) VXLAN
10 24 (16.67%) Junos
11 21 (14.58%) Network Security
12 20 (13.89%) Cisco ISE
13 18 (12.50%) SD-WAN
14 17 (11.81%) Cisco Nexus
15 16 (11.11%) MPLS
16 13 (9.03%) VLAN
17 10 (6.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.39%) Power BI
4 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.78%) JIRA
2 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.69%) Git
General
1 34 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.56%) Legal
4 7 (4.86%) Law
4 7 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.17%) Finance
6 4 (2.78%) Military
6 4 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.78%) Retail
7 2 (1.39%) Aviation
7 2 (1.39%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (28.47%) Network Engineer
2 19 (13.19%) Senior
3 16 (11.11%) Consultant
4 14 (9.72%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (9.72%) Management Consultant
4 14 (9.72%) Network Specialist
5 12 (8.33%) Architect
5 12 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) DBA
6 10 (6.94%) SQL DBA
7 8 (5.56%) Network Manager
8 7 (4.86%) Administrator
8 7 (4.86%) Analyst
9 6 (4.17%) Network Architect
9 6 (4.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Lead
11 4 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (2.78%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.83%) 802.1X
2 20 (13.89%) REST
3 4 (2.78%) LDAP
3 4 (2.78%) SAML
4 2 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.39%) Middleware
5 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (28.47%) Data Centre
2 31 (21.53%) Clustering
3 27 (18.75%) PKI
4 9 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 8 (5.56%) Replication
6 6 (4.17%) CMDB
7 4 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.08%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.39%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.39%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 76 (52.78%) Windows
2 39 (27.08%) Linux
3 19 (13.19%) AIX
4 16 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.08%) Unix
5 3 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.39%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.39%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.69%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.69%) VMS
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (27.08%) ITIL
2 37 (25.69%) High Availability
3 34 (23.61%) Observability
4 30 (20.83%) Load Balancing
4 30 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 24 (16.67%) ITSM
5 24 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
6 20 (13.89%) Project Delivery
7 19 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (11.11%) Service Management
11 15 (10.42%) Change Management
12 14 (9.72%) Dashboard Development
12 14 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (9.03%) Capacity Planning
13 13 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (7.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (27.08%) PowerShell
2 31 (21.53%) Python
2 31 (21.53%) SQL
3 17 (11.81%) Search Processing Language
4 9 (6.25%) Bash
5 3 (2.08%) Perl
5 3 (2.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 79 (54.86%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.31%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (23.61%) DV Cleared
4 33 (22.92%) SC Cleared
5 12 (8.33%) CCNP
6 10 (6.94%) CCNA
7 9 (6.25%) JNCIS
8 7 (4.86%) JNCIA
8 7 (4.86%) JNCIP
9 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (3.47%) MCSE
10 5 (3.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (2.78%) CCIE
11 4 (2.78%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.78%) PMP
12 3 (2.08%) Azure Certification
12 3 (2.08%) CCA
12 3 (2.08%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (2.08%) MCSA
13 2 (1.39%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (4.17%) NIST
2 3 (2.08%) NCSC
2 3 (2.08%) QA
3 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) GRC
4 1 (0.69%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.69%) PMO
4 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (15.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (15.28%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.64%) vSphere
4 10 (6.94%) VMware NSX
5 7 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.78%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.39%) NFS
8 2 (1.39%) SRDF
9 1 (0.69%) Docker
9 1 (0.69%) Firmware
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (18.75%) FortiGate
2 24 (16.67%) Nagios
3 19 (13.19%) ZABBIX
4 18 (12.50%) Netcool
5 17 (11.81%) Tivoli
6 15 (10.42%) OpenView
6 15 (10.42%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 11 (7.64%) Ansible
8 8 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
8 8 (5.56%) Terraform
9 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (4.86%) SCCM
9 7 (4.86%) WMI
10 6 (4.17%) vCenter Server
11 5 (3.47%) SCOM
12 4 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (2.08%) Grafana
13 3 (2.08%) Kubernetes
14 2 (1.39%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (1.39%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 88 (61.11%) Cisco
2 54 (37.50%) Splunk
3 41 (28.47%) F5
4 37 (25.69%) Palo Alto
5 36 (25.00%) Juniper
6 27 (18.75%) Microsoft
7 24 (16.67%) ServiceNow
7 24 (16.67%) VMware
8 23 (15.97%) Extreme Networks
9 21 (14.58%) BMC
9 21 (14.58%) Fortinet
10 16 (11.11%) Aruba
10 16 (11.11%) HP
10 16 (11.11%) IBM
11 14 (9.72%) CheckPoint
12 11 (7.64%) Meraki
13 10 (6.94%) Veeam
14 9 (6.25%) RedGate
15 6 (4.17%) Dynatrace
15 6 (4.17%) NetApp