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 14 October 2025, 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
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 404 448
Rank change year-on-year -8 +44 +132
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 146 152 188
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.41% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.92% 0.91% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 78 118
10th Percentile £369 £309 £319
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £547 £569 £588
90th Percentile £641 £681 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +5.81% -1.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £58.15 - £38.04
25th Percentile £61.00 - £59.99
Median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +179.41% -63.93% +29.96%
75th Percentile £67.25 £27.35 -
90th Percentile - £33.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +29.96%

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 15,824 16,711 21,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.70% 44.59% 44.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,756 9,817 13,829
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 807 581 672
10th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.30 £19.94
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £44.20
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -25.34% +84.51%
75th Percentile £38.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.35 £30.71 £43.75
% change year-on-year -30.48% -29.82% +113.41%

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 14 October 2025.

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
Top 16 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 14 October 2025. 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 -7 129 £492 -1.60% 35
UK excluding London -33 101 £496 +5.81% 32
South East +4 34 £500 +14.94% 15
London +34 32 £475 -9.52% 9
Work from Home +10 29 £475 -9.52% 21
North of England -42 27 £475 +2.70% 2
South West +26 18 £550 +25.36% 5
Yorkshire -8 18 £478 +112.44%
West Midlands -15 13 £494 -5.95% 6
Midlands -21 13 £494 -5.95% 8
North West -43 8 £475 +1.33% 2
Channel Islands - 3 £725 -
Scotland - 3 £475 -
East of England -4 2 £391 -32.25%
Wales +1 1 £190 - 1
North East - 1 £500 -

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 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (7.53%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.79%) Confluence
4 6 (4.11%) Skype for Business
5 4 (2.74%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.68%) Apache
6 1 (0.68%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.07%) Azure
2 13 (8.90%) AWS
3 7 (4.79%) Akamai
4 5 (3.42%) IaaS
4 5 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.05%) Datadog
5 3 (2.05%) GCP
5 3 (2.05%) SaaS
6 2 (1.37%) Cohesity
6 2 (1.37%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.37%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.68%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.68%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.68%) PaaS
7 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (47.95%) Firewall
2 45 (30.82%) Cisco ISE
3 38 (26.03%) BGP
3 38 (26.03%) DNS
4 35 (23.97%) OSPF
5 32 (21.92%) WAN
6 29 (19.86%) Network Security
6 29 (19.86%) VPN
7 28 (19.18%) VLAN
8 25 (17.12%) DHCP
8 25 (17.12%) SD-WAN
8 25 (17.12%) Wireless
9 22 (15.07%) Cisco Nexus
10 21 (14.38%) TCP/IP
11 20 (13.70%) Cisco Firepower
12 19 (13.01%) Cisco IOS
13 18 (12.33%) EIGRP
13 18 (12.33%) LAN
14 17 (11.64%) Wireshark
15 15 (10.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.68%) MySQL
2 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (8.22%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) Git
2 2 (1.37%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
General
1 31 (21.23%) Public Sector
1 31 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.22%) Finance
4 5 (3.42%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.74%) Banking
5 4 (2.74%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.05%) Law
6 3 (2.05%) Legal
6 3 (2.05%) Local Government
6 3 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.37%) Electronics
7 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (0.68%) Advertising
8 1 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 70 (47.95%) Network Engineer
2 26 (17.81%) Support Engineer
3 16 (10.96%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 16 (10.96%) Network Support
4 15 (10.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 15 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (10.27%) Network Support Engineer
5 14 (9.59%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 14 (9.59%) 3rd Line Support
5 14 (9.59%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 14 (9.59%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 13 (8.90%) Analyst
6 13 (8.90%) Network Analyst
7 12 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Security Engineer
9 9 (6.16%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (6.16%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (6.16%) Cisco Engineer
9 9 (6.16%) Network Security Engineer
9 9 (6.16%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.05%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.68%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.81%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.85%) PKI
3 6 (4.11%) CMDB
4 5 (3.42%) Replication
5 4 (2.74%) Clustering
5 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.74%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.37%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.37%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Life Science
8 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (30.82%) Windows
2 25 (17.12%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.48%) Linux
4 7 (4.79%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.42%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.37%) Mac OS X
7 2 (1.37%) Windows 8
7 2 (1.37%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (19.18%) Service Management
2 27 (18.49%) Network Monitoring
3 24 (16.44%) ITIL
4 23 (15.75%) ITSM
5 16 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (10.27%) High Availability
7 12 (8.22%) Agile
7 12 (8.22%) Performance Monitoring
8 11 (7.53%) Migration
8 11 (7.53%) Network Segmentation
9 8 (5.48%) Asset Management
9 8 (5.48%) Change Management
9 8 (5.48%) Computer Science
9 8 (5.48%) Critical Thinking
9 8 (5.48%) Load Balancing
10 7 (4.79%) Patch Management
10 7 (4.79%) Problem Management
10 7 (4.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (4.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.64%) PowerShell
2 15 (10.27%) Python
3 10 (6.85%) SQL
4 6 (4.11%) Bash
5 3 (2.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (52.05%) Security Cleared
2 40 (27.40%) SC Cleared
3 36 (24.66%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (21.92%) DV Cleared
5 27 (18.49%) CCNP
6 15 (10.27%) CCNA
7 13 (8.90%) Degree
8 6 (4.11%) CCSA
8 6 (4.11%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (4.11%) MCSE
8 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.42%) CCIE
9 5 (3.42%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.05%) CCDP
10 3 (2.05%) CISSP
10 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.05%) JNCIS
11 2 (1.37%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.37%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (1.37%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.37%) JSP 440
2 2 (1.37%) NCSC
2 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.37%) PMO
2 2 (1.37%) RMADS
2 2 (1.37%) SLA
3 1 (0.68%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (23.29%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.01%) VMware NSX
3 18 (12.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.79%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.79%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (4.79%) vSphere
5 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.05%) Firmware
8 2 (1.37%) XenApp
9 1 (0.68%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (15.07%) vCenter Server
2 19 (13.01%) Ansible
3 14 (9.59%) SCCM
4 10 (6.85%) FortiGate
5 9 (6.16%) WSUS
6 7 (4.79%) SCOM
7 6 (4.11%) Terraform
8 5 (3.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (3.42%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (3.42%) Nagios
8 5 (3.42%) Tivoli
9 4 (2.74%) CA Spectrum
10 3 (2.05%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (2.05%) Iperf
10 3 (2.05%) Nmap
11 2 (1.37%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (1.37%) Norton AntiVirus
11 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 103 (70.55%) Cisco
2 34 (23.29%) F5
2 34 (23.29%) Juniper
3 29 (19.86%) VMware
4 28 (19.18%) Fortinet
5 25 (17.12%) Microsoft
6 23 (15.75%) CheckPoint
7 22 (15.07%) Palo Alto
7 22 (15.07%) Veeam
8 13 (8.90%) Meraki
9 12 (8.22%) LogicMonitor
10 11 (7.53%) ServiceNow
11 9 (6.16%) Dell
12 8 (5.48%) Splunk
13 7 (4.79%) Citrix
14 4 (2.74%) Aruba
14 4 (2.74%) NetApp
15 3 (2.05%) Arista
15 3 (2.05%) ConnectWise
15 3 (2.05%) Oracle