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 25 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
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 342 433
Rank change year-on-year -142 +91 +63
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 153 188 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.62% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.74% 1.31% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 131 101
10th Percentile £306 £285 £400
25th Percentile £413 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -4.95% +14.44%
75th Percentile £581 £561 £588
90th Percentile £682 £689 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £515
% change year-on-year +2.15% -4.95% +15.73%
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 20,809 14,306 18,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.89% 47.50% 42.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,041 8,801 11,540
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 662 1,168
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.15%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £22.58
% change year-on-year +39.13% +1.86% -39.79%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -152 132 £500 - 23
UK excluding London -104 126 £500 +2.15% 29
South East -36 54 £520 +12.43% 10
Work from Home -65 33 £519 +3.80% 10
South West -37 21 £426 -20.74% 2
Midlands -63 19 £500 -9.26% 4
London -106 18 £500 - 5
West Midlands -62 16 £533 -2.38%
North of England -97 15 £447 -5.89% 2
Scotland +2 14 £500 +11.11% 7
North West -46 10 £430 +1.18% 1
Yorkshire -65 6 £519 +7.29% 1
East Midlands -16 3 £475 -26.92% 4
East of England -27 3 £363 -9.38% 2

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 (1.31%) Apache
1 2 (1.31%) Confluence
1 2 (1.31%) IIS
2 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (24.18%) Azure
2 20 (13.07%) AWS
3 10 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (3.92%) SaaS
7 4 (2.61%) GCP
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.96%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.96%) PaaS
9 2 (1.31%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.31%) Datadog
9 2 (1.31%) GitHub
9 2 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.31%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (0.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (45.75%) WAN
2 69 (45.10%) Firewall
3 68 (44.44%) LAN
4 53 (34.64%) DNS
5 41 (26.80%) DHCP
6 36 (23.53%) BGP
7 35 (22.88%) OSPF
8 33 (21.57%) BIG-IP
9 30 (19.61%) SNMP
9 30 (19.61%) VPN
10 27 (17.65%) Ethernet VPN
10 27 (17.65%) VXLAN
11 24 (15.69%) Junos
12 22 (14.38%) Cisco Nexus
12 22 (14.38%) Network Security
12 22 (14.38%) SD-WAN
13 21 (13.73%) MPLS
14 20 (13.07%) Cisco ISE
15 16 (10.46%) VLAN
16 14 (9.15%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.54%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.31%) Power BI
4 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.61%) JIRA
1 4 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) Git
General
1 36 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (5.23%) Legal
5 7 (4.58%) Law
6 6 (3.92%) Finance
6 6 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.61%) Military
8 4 (2.61%) Retail
9 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.31%) Aviation
10 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (27.45%) Network Engineer
2 19 (12.42%) Senior
3 16 (10.46%) Architect
3 16 (10.46%) Consultant
4 14 (9.15%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (9.15%) Management Consultant
4 14 (9.15%) Network Specialist
5 12 (7.84%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (6.54%) DBA
6 10 (6.54%) SQL DBA
7 9 (5.88%) Lead
7 9 (5.88%) Network Architect
8 8 (5.23%) Analyst
8 8 (5.23%) Network Manager
9 7 (4.58%) Administrator
10 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.61%) Lead Architect
11 4 (2.61%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.61%) 802.1X
2 20 (13.07%) REST
3 4 (2.61%) LDAP
3 4 (2.61%) SAML
4 3 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.31%) Middleware
6 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.10%) Data Centre
2 31 (20.26%) Clustering
3 27 (17.65%) PKI
4 10 (6.54%) Security Posture
5 9 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (5.23%) Replication
7 7 (4.58%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.92%) CMDB
9 4 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.61%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.96%) CSOC
10 3 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.96%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.31%) EMC VNX
11 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (1.31%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 78 (50.98%) Windows
2 41 (26.80%) Linux
3 19 (12.42%) AIX
4 16 (10.46%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.96%) Unix
5 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.31%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.31%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.65%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.65%) VMS
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.41%) ITIL
2 39 (25.49%) High Availability
3 34 (22.22%) Observability
4 31 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (19.61%) Load Balancing
6 26 (16.99%) ITSM
7 24 (15.69%) Identity Access Management
7 24 (15.69%) Network Monitoring
7 24 (15.69%) Project Delivery
8 22 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (11.76%) Service Management
10 16 (10.46%) Change Management
10 16 (10.46%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (9.15%) Dashboard Development
11 14 (9.15%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (8.50%) Capacity Planning
13 12 (7.84%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 41 (26.80%) PowerShell
2 35 (22.88%) Python
3 32 (20.92%) SQL
4 17 (11.11%) Search Processing Language
5 10 (6.54%) Bash
6 4 (2.61%) Perl
7 3 (1.96%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 87 (56.86%) Security Cleared
2 38 (24.84%) DV Cleared
3 37 (24.18%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (23.53%) SC Cleared
5 14 (9.15%) CCNP
6 9 (5.88%) CCNA
7 8 (5.23%) JNCIS
7 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.58%) JNCIA
8 7 (4.58%) JNCIP
9 6 (3.92%) CCIE
9 6 (3.92%) MCSE
10 5 (3.27%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.61%) Degree
11 4 (2.61%) MCSA
11 4 (2.61%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.61%) PMP
12 3 (1.96%) CCA
12 3 (1.96%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (4.58%) NCSC
2 6 (3.92%) NIST
3 3 (1.96%) QA
4 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) GRC
5 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.65%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (16.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (14.38%) Active Directory
3 14 (9.15%) VMware NSX
4 12 (7.84%) vSphere
5 7 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.96%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.31%) Firmware
8 2 (1.31%) NFS
8 2 (1.31%) SRDF
9 1 (0.65%) Docker
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (17.65%) FortiGate
2 23 (15.03%) Nagios
3 19 (12.42%) ZABBIX
4 18 (11.76%) Netcool
5 17 (11.11%) Tivoli
6 15 (9.80%) OpenView
6 15 (9.80%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 12 (7.84%) Ansible
8 10 (6.54%) Terraform
9 8 (5.23%) Cisco Prime
9 8 (5.23%) WMI
10 7 (4.58%) SCCM
11 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (3.92%) vCenter Server
12 5 (3.27%) SCOM
13 4 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (1.96%) Grafana
14 3 (1.96%) Kubernetes
15 2 (1.31%) EMC VPLEX
15 2 (1.31%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 94 (61.44%) Cisco
2 55 (35.95%) Splunk
3 45 (29.41%) F5
4 42 (27.45%) Palo Alto
5 35 (22.88%) Juniper
6 32 (20.92%) Microsoft
7 30 (19.61%) VMware
8 24 (15.69%) ServiceNow
9 23 (15.03%) Extreme Networks
10 22 (14.38%) Fortinet
11 21 (13.73%) BMC
12 17 (11.11%) Aruba
13 16 (10.46%) HP
13 16 (10.46%) IBM
14 14 (9.15%) CheckPoint
15 11 (7.19%) Meraki
16 9 (5.88%) RedGate
16 9 (5.88%) Veeam
17 6 (3.92%) Dynatrace
17 6 (3.92%) NetApp