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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 420 421
Rank change year-on-year -114 +1 +26
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 155 148 143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.68% 0.94% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 109 75
10th Percentile £363 £371 £292
25th Percentile £432 £413 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -2.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £490 £463
% change year-on-year +9.81% +5.84% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £47.23 £58.15 -
25th Percentile £55.66 £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 22,864 15,696 17,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.67% 47.57% 44.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,944 9,651 10,126
10th Percentile £310 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £615 £613 £625
90th Percentile £703 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,300 810 649
10th Percentile £13.98 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.79 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.97%
75th Percentile £59.19 £42.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.54 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.91% -29.00% -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 25 September 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 September 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 25 September 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 -125 131 £538 +9.81% 76
UK excluding London -77 124 £538 +9.81% 43
South East -56 44 £538 +13.16% 8
Work from Home -62 29 £582 +29.28% 26
Midlands -35 23 £575 +16.46% 1
London -112 21 £450 -10.00% 26
West Midlands -32 20 £575 +16.46% 1
Scotland -12 18 £475 -2.56%
South West -37 17 £613 +11.36% 11
North of England -76 13 £400 -15.79% 7
East of England -26 9 - - 16
North West -57 6 £400 -15.79% 6
Yorkshire -51 4 £519 +8.58%
North East -41 3 £225 -55.00% 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 (1.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (25.16%) Azure
2 16 (10.32%) AWS
3 7 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (3.87%) Datadog
4 6 (3.87%) Rubrik
4 6 (3.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (2.58%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.58%) GitHub
6 3 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.94%) GCP
6 3 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.94%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.94%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.94%) SaaS
7 2 (1.29%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.29%) IaaS
7 2 (1.29%) PaaS
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 51 (32.90%) Firewall
2 50 (32.26%) DNS
3 48 (30.97%) LAN
4 46 (29.68%) WAN
5 42 (27.10%) Network Security
6 32 (20.65%) BGP
7 30 (19.35%) DHCP
8 29 (18.71%) VPN
9 28 (18.06%) OSPF
10 24 (15.48%) SNMP
11 21 (13.55%) Cisco Nexus
12 20 (12.90%) MPLS
13 18 (11.61%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (10.97%) SD-WAN
14 17 (10.97%) TCP/IP
14 17 (10.97%) VLAN
14 17 (10.97%) Wireless
15 16 (10.32%) SSL
16 15 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (9.03%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.03%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.94%) 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 (3.23%) JIRA
2 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.29%) Git
3 2 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 38 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (7.74%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (5.16%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (5.16%) Legal
4 6 (3.87%) Finance
4 6 (3.87%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.29%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.29%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Aviation
8 1 (0.65%) Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (27.74%) Network Engineer
2 15 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (9.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (9.03%) Senior
4 11 (7.10%) Consultant
4 11 (7.10%) Support Engineer
5 10 (6.45%) Architect
6 9 (5.81%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 9 (5.81%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (5.16%) Lead
7 8 (5.16%) Management Consultant
8 7 (4.52%) DBA
8 7 (4.52%) SQL DBA
9 6 (3.87%) Administrator
9 6 (3.87%) Analyst
9 6 (3.87%) Network Architect
9 6 (3.87%) Network Manager
10 5 (3.23%) Data Centre Engineer
10 5 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (3.23%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.03%) REST
1 14 (9.03%) Terraform
2 12 (7.74%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.94%) SAML
4 2 (1.29%) LDAP
4 2 (1.29%) YAML
5 1 (0.65%) JSON
5 1 (0.65%) Loki
5 1 (0.65%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.65%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.65%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.55%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.45%) PKI
3 9 (5.81%) CMDB
4 7 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.52%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.87%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.23%) Clustering
6 5 (3.23%) Replication
7 4 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.58%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (2.58%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.94%) CSOC
8 3 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.94%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.94%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (50.97%) Windows
2 48 (30.97%) Linux
3 22 (14.19%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (6.45%) AIX
6 8 (5.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.29%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.29%) Unix
8 1 (0.65%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.03%) ITIL
2 35 (22.58%) ITSM
3 29 (18.71%) Network Monitoring
4 28 (18.06%) Project Delivery
5 26 (16.77%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (15.48%) Network Virtualisation
7 23 (14.84%) High Availability
8 22 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (13.55%) Service Delivery
10 20 (12.90%) Service Management
11 19 (12.26%) Agile
11 19 (12.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (10.97%) Load Balancing
13 15 (9.68%) Task Automation
14 14 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (9.03%) DevOps
14 14 (9.03%) Observability
14 14 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.87%) PowerShell
2 29 (18.71%) Python
3 25 (16.13%) SQL
4 16 (10.32%) Bash
5 9 (5.81%) Search Processing Language
6 6 (3.87%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.58%) Perl
8 1 (0.65%) Java
8 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (52.90%) Security Cleared
2 47 (30.32%) DV Cleared
3 28 (18.06%) SC Cleared
4 25 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (10.32%) CCNA
6 14 (9.03%) CCNP
7 8 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.52%) Degree
8 7 (4.52%) MCSE
9 5 (3.23%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.23%) CCIE
10 4 (2.58%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (2.58%) MCSA
11 3 (1.94%) CCA
11 3 (1.94%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (1.94%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.94%) PMP
12 2 (1.29%) CISM
12 2 (1.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.81%) NIST
2 7 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.58%) NCSC
4 2 (1.29%) GDPR
4 2 (1.29%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.29%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.65%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 46 (29.68%) Active Directory
2 45 (29.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (10.97%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (10.97%) vSphere
4 15 (9.68%) VMware NSX
5 9 (5.81%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.94%) NFS
8 2 (1.29%) Docker
8 2 (1.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.29%) Firmware
8 2 (1.29%) SRDF
9 1 (0.65%) Samba
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (16.13%) SCOM
2 24 (15.48%) Nagios
3 18 (11.61%) vCenter Server
4 12 (7.74%) ZABBIX
5 11 (7.10%) Ansible
6 10 (6.45%) SCCM
7 9 (5.81%) Netcool
7 9 (5.81%) Tivoli
7 9 (5.81%) WMI
8 8 (5.16%) FortiGate
8 8 (5.16%) NetBackup
9 7 (4.52%) Grafana
9 7 (4.52%) OpenView
9 7 (4.52%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 5 (3.23%) Kubernetes
10 5 (3.23%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (2.58%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (1.94%) Cisco Prime
12 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 84 (54.19%) Cisco
2 56 (36.13%) VMware
3 44 (28.39%) Palo Alto
4 42 (27.10%) Splunk
5 33 (21.29%) Microsoft
6 31 (20.00%) ServiceNow
7 29 (18.71%) F5
8 21 (13.55%) Fortinet
9 16 (10.32%) Aruba
10 13 (8.39%) Juniper
11 12 (7.74%) BMC
12 11 (7.10%) Broadcom
12 11 (7.10%) Meraki
13 10 (6.45%) Veeam
14 9 (5.81%) Citrix
15 8 (5.16%) CheckPoint
15 8 (5.16%) IBM
16 7 (4.52%) Dynatrace
16 7 (4.52%) HP
16 7 (4.52%) NetApp