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 15 July 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
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 381 426
Rank change year-on-year -113 +45 +77
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 156 180 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.55% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.72% 1.17% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 122 101
10th Percentile £306 £285 £400
25th Percentile £419 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.93% -7.48% +14.44%
75th Percentile £582 £550 £588
90th Percentile £683 £686 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +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% -61.61%
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 21,678 15,427 18,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.20% 47.54% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,483 9,438 11,509
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 748 1,120
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.41 £60.83
90th Percentile £83.88 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.56 £24.43
% change year-on-year +50.66% -7.65% -18.57%

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 15 July 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 15 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 13 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 15 July 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 -131 135 £500 +2.15% 21
UK excluding London -88 129 £500 +5.26% 20
South East -27 60 £534 +42.29% 5
Work from Home -79 27 £582 +16.35% 7
South West -25 21 £426 -20.74% 1
London -100 19 £500 - 5
Midlands -57 18 £500 -7.15% 3
Scotland +4 15 £488 +8.33% 3
West Midlands -67 15 £565 +5.21% 1
North of England -95 15 £439 -7.68% 6
North West -52 9 £430 +1.18% 1
Yorkshire -64 7 £519 +7.29% 4
East Midlands -11 3 £475 -26.92% 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 (1.28%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.08%) Azure
2 20 (12.82%) AWS
3 7 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (3.21%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.21%) GCP
5 4 (2.56%) SaaS
6 3 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.92%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.92%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.28%) Datadog
7 2 (1.28%) GitHub
7 2 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.28%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.64%) IaaS
8 1 (0.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (42.95%) Firewall
1 67 (42.95%) WAN
2 65 (41.67%) LAN
3 60 (38.46%) DNS
4 46 (29.49%) DHCP
5 42 (26.92%) BGP
6 40 (25.64%) OSPF
7 33 (21.15%) BIG-IP
8 30 (19.23%) SNMP
8 30 (19.23%) VPN
9 29 (18.59%) Network Security
10 27 (17.31%) Ethernet VPN
10 27 (17.31%) VXLAN
11 24 (15.38%) Junos
12 23 (14.74%) Cisco ISE
13 21 (13.46%) Cisco Nexus
14 19 (12.18%) MPLS
15 17 (10.90%) SD-WAN
16 16 (10.26%) Cisco ASA
16 16 (10.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.28%) Power BI
4 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.56%) JIRA
1 4 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.28%) Git
2 2 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.05%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.21%) Legal
5 5 (3.21%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.56%) Finance
6 4 (2.56%) Military
7 3 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.92%) Law
8 2 (1.28%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.28%) Aviation
8 2 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (23.72%) Network Engineer
2 20 (12.82%) Senior
3 16 (10.26%) Consultant
4 14 (8.97%) Architect
4 14 (8.97%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (8.97%) Management Consultant
4 14 (8.97%) Network Specialist
4 14 (8.97%) Senior Network Engineer
5 13 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) DBA
6 11 (7.05%) SQL DBA
7 9 (5.77%) Lead
7 9 (5.77%) Network Architect
8 8 (5.13%) Network Manager
9 7 (4.49%) Administrator
10 6 (3.85%) Analyst
10 6 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.85%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.87%) 802.1X
2 21 (13.46%) REST
3 4 (2.56%) SAML
4 3 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.92%) LDAP
5 1 (0.64%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.64%) Loki
5 1 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.64%) SOAP
5 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.28%) Data Centre
2 31 (19.87%) Clustering
3 29 (18.59%) PKI
4 9 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.77%) Replication
5 7 (4.49%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.85%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.56%) CMDB
7 4 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.56%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.92%) CSOC
8 3 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.92%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.28%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.28%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 86 (55.13%) Windows
2 46 (29.49%) Linux
3 19 (12.18%) AIX
4 14 (8.97%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.28%) Unix
6 2 (1.28%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.64%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.64%) VMS
7 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (28.85%) High Availability
2 41 (26.28%) ITIL
3 33 (21.15%) Observability
4 31 (19.87%) Load Balancing
5 30 (19.23%) ITSM
5 30 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (18.59%) Project Delivery
7 24 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
8 22 (14.10%) Network Monitoring
9 19 (12.18%) Service Management
9 19 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (10.90%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (8.97%) Change Management
13 14 (8.97%) Dashboard Development
13 14 (8.97%) Network Virtualisation
14 13 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
14 13 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (29.49%) PowerShell
2 39 (25.00%) Python
3 33 (21.15%) SQL
4 17 (10.90%) Search Processing Language
5 15 (9.62%) Bash
6 4 (2.56%) Perl
6 4 (2.56%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.64%) Java
7 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 94 (60.26%) Security Cleared
2 43 (27.56%) DV Cleared
3 39 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 37 (23.72%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (8.97%) CCNP
6 9 (5.77%) CCNA
7 8 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.49%) JNCIA
8 7 (4.49%) JNCIP
8 7 (4.49%) JNCIS
9 6 (3.85%) CCIE
9 6 (3.85%) MCSE
10 5 (3.21%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.56%) Degree
11 4 (2.56%) MCSA
11 4 (2.56%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.56%) PMP
12 3 (1.92%) CCA
12 3 (1.92%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (4.49%) NCSC
1 7 (4.49%) NIST
2 2 (1.28%) QA
3 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.64%) GDPR
3 1 (0.64%) GRC
3 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.64%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.64%) PMO
3 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (21.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (19.23%) Active Directory
3 15 (9.62%) VMware NSX
4 12 (7.69%) vSphere
5 10 (6.41%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.85%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.92%) NFS
9 2 (1.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.28%) Firmware
9 2 (1.28%) SRDF
10 1 (0.64%) Docker
10 1 (0.64%) Samba
10 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (17.95%) FortiGate
2 24 (15.38%) Nagios
3 20 (12.82%) ZABBIX
4 18 (11.54%) Netcool
5 17 (10.90%) Tivoli
6 15 (9.62%) OpenView
6 15 (9.62%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 13 (8.33%) Ansible
8 12 (7.69%) SCOM
8 12 (7.69%) Terraform
9 11 (7.05%) vCenter Server
10 8 (5.13%) WMI
11 7 (4.49%) SCCM
12 5 (3.21%) Cisco Prime
12 5 (3.21%) Kubernetes
12 5 (3.21%) NetBackup
13 4 (2.56%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (2.56%) Grafana
14 3 (1.92%) Prometheus
14 3 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (59.62%) Cisco
2 60 (38.46%) Splunk
3 45 (28.85%) F5
4 42 (26.92%) Palo Alto
5 38 (24.36%) VMware
6 36 (23.08%) Juniper
7 29 (18.59%) Microsoft
8 24 (15.38%) ServiceNow
9 22 (14.10%) Extreme Networks
10 21 (13.46%) Fortinet
11 20 (12.82%) BMC
12 16 (10.26%) Aruba
12 16 (10.26%) HP
12 16 (10.26%) IBM
13 12 (7.69%) CheckPoint
14 11 (7.05%) Meraki
15 10 (6.41%) RedGate
16 7 (4.49%) NetApp
17 6 (3.85%) Citrix
17 6 (3.85%) Veeam