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 4 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
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 401 417
Rank change year-on-year -131 +16 +25
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 154 145 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.68% 0.92% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 108 76
10th Percentile £400 £369 £293
25th Percentile £450 £413 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -2.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £547 £604
90th Percentile £675 £650 £667
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £492 £469
% change year-on-year +9.25% +4.96% -1.32%
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 22,710 15,814 16,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.57% 47.65% 44.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,738 9,719 9,989
10th Percentile £310 £278 £285
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £613 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,370 820 620
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.79 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.34 £25.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -22.62% -25.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.88 £64.63
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £21.35 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.33% -28.85% -29.41%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -121 131 £538 +9.53% 84
UK excluding London -81 124 £538 +9.25% 52
South East -47 44 £538 +7.50% 12
Work from Home -77 31 £591 +31.31% 33
Midlands -33 23 £575 +16.46% 1
London -94 21 £450 -7.69% 31
West Midlands -38 20 £575 +16.46% 1
Scotland -9 18 £475 -2.56%
North of England -79 15 £400 -15.79% 7
South West -37 14 £685 +24.55% 12
East of England -12 10 - - 19
North West -46 6 £400 -13.51% 5
North East -35 5 £225 -55.00% 1
Yorkshire -54 4 £519 +8.58% 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 2 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.27%) Azure
2 16 (10.39%) AWS
3 8 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.90%) Datadog
4 6 (3.90%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.90%) Rubrik
4 6 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (2.60%) GitHub
5 4 (2.60%) IaaS
5 4 (2.60%) PaaS
6 3 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.95%) GCP
6 3 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.95%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.95%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.95%) SaaS
7 2 (1.30%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.65%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 52 (33.77%) Firewall
2 49 (31.82%) DNS
2 49 (31.82%) LAN
3 46 (29.87%) WAN
4 43 (27.92%) Network Security
5 32 (20.78%) BGP
6 30 (19.48%) DHCP
6 30 (19.48%) VPN
7 28 (18.18%) OSPF
8 21 (13.64%) Cisco Nexus
9 20 (12.99%) MPLS
9 20 (12.99%) SNMP
10 18 (11.69%) Cisco ASA
10 18 (11.69%) SD-WAN
10 18 (11.69%) TCP/IP
10 18 (11.69%) VLAN
11 17 (11.04%) SSL
11 17 (11.04%) Wireless
12 16 (10.39%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (9.09%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.39%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.95%) 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 5 (3.25%) JIRA
2 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.30%) Git
3 2 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 38 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (7.79%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (5.19%) Legal
4 6 (3.90%) Finance
4 6 (3.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.30%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.65%) Aviation
8 1 (0.65%) Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 17 (11.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (10.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (9.09%) Senior
5 11 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 10 (6.49%) Architect
6 10 (6.49%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 9 (5.84%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (5.19%) Lead
9 7 (4.55%) Consultant
9 7 (4.55%) Data Centre Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) DBA
9 7 (4.55%) SQL DBA
10 6 (3.90%) Administrator
10 6 (3.90%) Analyst
10 6 (3.90%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Network Architect
10 6 (3.90%) Network Manager
11 5 (3.25%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 5 (3.25%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.39%) Terraform
2 11 (7.14%) 802.1X
3 10 (6.49%) REST
4 3 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.95%) SAML
5 2 (1.30%) LDAP
5 2 (1.30%) 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
6 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.94%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.84%) CMDB
2 9 (5.84%) PKI
3 7 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.25%) Replication
5 5 (3.25%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.60%) Clustering
6 4 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.60%) Fibre Optics
6 4 (2.60%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.95%) CSOC
7 3 (1.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.95%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.95%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 76 (49.35%) Windows
2 44 (28.57%) Linux
3 24 (15.58%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.90%) AIX
7 2 (1.30%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.30%) Unix
8 1 (0.65%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.22%) ITIL
2 35 (22.73%) ITSM
3 29 (18.83%) Network Monitoring
4 27 (17.53%) Project Delivery
5 26 (16.88%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (15.58%) Network Virtualisation
7 23 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (14.29%) High Availability
9 21 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (12.99%) Service Delivery
10 20 (12.99%) Service Management
11 19 (12.34%) Agile
12 17 (11.04%) Load Balancing
13 15 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (9.74%) DevOps
13 15 (9.74%) Task Automation
14 14 (9.09%) Capacity Management
14 14 (9.09%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 35 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 25 (16.23%) Python
3 24 (15.58%) SQL
4 16 (10.39%) Bash
5 6 (3.90%) Search Processing Language
5 6 (3.90%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.60%) Perl
7 1 (0.65%) Java
7 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (29.87%) DV Cleared
3 24 (15.58%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (15.58%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.39%) CCNA
5 15 (9.74%) CCNP
6 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (5.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (4.55%) Degree
7 7 (4.55%) MCSE
8 5 (3.25%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.25%) CCIE
8 5 (3.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.60%) MCSA
10 3 (1.95%) CCA
10 3 (1.95%) CISM
10 3 (1.95%) CISSP
10 3 (1.95%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (1.95%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.49%) NIST
2 8 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.60%) NCSC
4 3 (1.95%) GDPR
4 3 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.30%) SLA
6 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 48 (31.17%) Active Directory
2 47 (30.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (12.34%) vSphere
4 17 (11.04%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (9.74%) VMware NSX
6 9 (5.84%) Hyper-V
6 9 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.95%) NFS
8 2 (1.30%) Docker
8 2 (1.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.30%) Firmware
8 2 (1.30%) SRDF
9 1 (0.65%) Samba
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (16.23%) SCOM
2 21 (13.64%) Nagios
3 18 (11.69%) vCenter Server
4 11 (7.14%) Ansible
5 10 (6.49%) SCCM
6 9 (5.84%) WMI
7 8 (5.19%) NetBackup
7 8 (5.19%) ZABBIX
8 7 (4.55%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.55%) Grafana
9 5 (3.25%) Kubernetes
9 5 (3.25%) Netcool
9 5 (3.25%) SolarWinds Orion
9 5 (3.25%) Tivoli
10 4 (2.60%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (1.95%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.95%) OpenView
11 3 (1.95%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.95%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 84 (54.55%) Cisco
2 58 (37.66%) VMware
3 44 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 37 (24.03%) Splunk
5 34 (22.08%) Microsoft
6 32 (20.78%) ServiceNow
7 28 (18.18%) F5
8 20 (12.99%) Fortinet
9 16 (10.39%) Aruba
10 13 (8.44%) Veeam
11 12 (7.79%) Juniper
11 12 (7.79%) Meraki
12 11 (7.14%) Broadcom
13 9 (5.84%) CheckPoint
13 9 (5.84%) Citrix
13 9 (5.84%) Commvault
14 8 (5.19%) BMC
14 8 (5.19%) NetApp
15 7 (4.55%) Dynatrace
16 6 (3.90%) CyberArk