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 13 March 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
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 350 440
Rank change year-on-year -105 +90 +118
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 157 184 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.62% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.83% 1.33% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 124 116
10th Percentile £304 £311 £328
25th Percentile £361 £414 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% -2.38% +8.81%
75th Percentile £526 £625 £600
90th Percentile £580 £707 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £531 £500
% change year-on-year -9.13% +6.20% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £44.28 - £42.15
25th Percentile £48.68 - £58.50
Median hourly rate £57.02 - £65.98
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - £66.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.02 - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +6.42%

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 18,840 13,859 19,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.99% 47.04% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,042 8,621 11,982
10th Percentile £306 £284 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +0.49% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 959 447 1,031
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -31.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £75.65 £82.68 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -16.36% +18.46% -30.70%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -116 136 £500 -4.76% 34
UK excluding London -101 117 £483 -9.13% 30
South East -31 48 £500 -4.76% 18
Work from Home -29 44 £425 -15.00% 8
London -62 25 £520 +4.00% 7
West Midlands -62 25 £310 -43.74% 1
Midlands -82 25 £310 -47.01% 2
South West -25 16 £550 +33.33% 7
North of England -83 16 £348 -26.84% 3
North West -52 14 £348 -26.84%
East of England -24 6 £363 -34.09%
Scotland - 6 £500 -
Yorkshire - 3 - - 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 11 (7.01%) Confluence
2 6 (3.82%) IIS
3 5 (3.18%) Apache
3 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.18%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.55%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.27%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (8.92%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (30.57%) Azure
2 36 (22.93%) AWS
3 14 (8.92%) Datadog
4 13 (8.28%) Entra ID
5 10 (6.37%) GCP
6 8 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (3.18%) Nutanix
8 5 (3.18%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.18%) SaaS
8 5 (3.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (2.55%) PaaS
10 3 (1.91%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (1.91%) Cohesity
10 3 (1.91%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.27%) IaaS
12 1 (0.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 70 (44.59%) Firewall
2 56 (35.67%) WAN
3 49 (31.21%) LAN
4 44 (28.03%) DNS
5 38 (24.20%) DHCP
5 38 (24.20%) OSPF
6 36 (22.93%) BGP
7 33 (21.02%) Junos
8 32 (20.38%) Cisco ISE
9 28 (17.83%) VPN
10 27 (17.20%) VXLAN
11 23 (14.65%) BIG-IP
11 23 (14.65%) Ethernet VPN
12 20 (12.74%) VLAN
13 18 (11.46%) Network Security
14 15 (9.55%) MPLS
14 15 (9.55%) SD-WAN
15 14 (8.92%) Cisco Firepower
15 14 (8.92%) Cisco IOS
15 14 (8.92%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (3.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Git
1 5 (3.18%) JIRA
2 4 (2.55%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 34 (21.66%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.28%) Finance
5 7 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.82%) Law
6 6 (3.82%) Legal
7 5 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.55%) Military
9 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.91%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.91%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Aviation
10 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.64%) Advertising
11 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.64%) French Language
11 1 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 57 (36.31%) Network Engineer
2 17 (10.83%) Analyst
3 14 (8.92%) Senior
4 13 (8.28%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 13 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (7.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 12 (7.64%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 12 (7.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (7.64%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 12 (7.64%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 12 (7.64%) Network Specialist
6 11 (7.01%) Architect
7 10 (6.37%) Firewall Specialist
7 10 (6.37%) Network Support
7 10 (6.37%) Support Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Network Support Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Senior Network Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (4.46%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.65%) 802.1X
2 11 (7.01%) REST
3 4 (2.55%) JSON
4 3 (1.91%) LDAP
4 3 (1.91%) SAML
5 2 (1.27%) Middleware
6 1 (0.64%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.66%) Data Centre
2 32 (20.38%) Clustering
3 28 (17.83%) PKI
4 14 (8.92%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.10%) CMDB
6 7 (4.46%) Operational Technology
6 7 (4.46%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.82%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.82%) Replication
8 5 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.27%) SCADA
10 2 (1.27%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 64 (40.76%) Windows
2 29 (18.47%) Linux
3 28 (17.83%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.18%) AIX
5 4 (2.55%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.91%) Unix
6 3 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.64%) Solaris
7 1 (0.64%) VMS
7 1 (0.64%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (21.02%) High Availability
2 33 (21.02%) ITIL
3 27 (17.20%) Load Balancing
4 26 (16.56%) Service Management
5 25 (15.92%) Observability
6 24 (15.29%) Agile
6 24 (15.29%) ITSM
7 20 (12.74%) Identity Access Management
8 18 (11.46%) Network Monitoring
9 17 (10.83%) Change Management
9 17 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (9.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (8.28%) Project Delivery
12 11 (7.01%) Capacity Planning
13 10 (6.37%) Network Design
13 10 (6.37%) Roadmaps
14 9 (5.73%) Availability Management
14 9 (5.73%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.83%) PowerShell
2 20 (12.74%) Python
3 13 (8.28%) SQL
4 6 (3.82%) Bash
5 5 (3.18%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (2.55%) Perl
7 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 73 (46.50%) Security Cleared
2 39 (24.84%) Cisco Certification
3 32 (20.38%) SC Cleared
4 29 (18.47%) DV Cleared
5 22 (14.01%) CCNP
6 13 (8.28%) CCNA
7 11 (7.01%) JNCIS
8 10 (6.37%) Degree
9 9 (5.73%) JNCIP
10 8 (5.10%) JNCIA
11 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (3.82%) CCIE
13 5 (3.18%) MCSE
13 5 (3.18%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (2.55%) AWS Certification
15 3 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
15 3 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (1.91%) CCIE Security
15 3 (1.91%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.82%) GDPR
1 6 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.55%) NIST
2 4 (2.55%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.91%) NCSC
3 3 (1.91%) QA
4 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.64%) GRC
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 40 (25.48%) Active Directory
2 39 (24.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (15.29%) VMware NSX
4 17 (10.83%) vSphere
5 12 (7.64%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.82%) Firmware
7 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.64%) KVM
9 1 (0.64%) RHEV
9 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.64%) Xen
9 1 (0.64%) XenApp
9 1 (0.64%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (15.92%) Ansible
2 23 (14.65%) Nagios
3 22 (14.01%) FortiGate
4 21 (13.38%) Terraform
5 20 (12.74%) vCenter Server
6 13 (8.28%) SCCM
6 13 (8.28%) vRealize
7 12 (7.64%) VxRail
8 8 (5.10%) Cisco Prime
9 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (3.82%) WSUS
10 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (3.18%) Netcool
10 5 (3.18%) ZABBIX
11 4 (2.55%) OpenView
11 4 (2.55%) Pingdom
11 4 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (2.55%) Tivoli
11 4 (2.55%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 3 (1.91%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 104 (66.24%) Cisco
2 46 (29.30%) Juniper
3 43 (27.39%) VMware
4 33 (21.02%) F5
4 33 (21.02%) Splunk
5 27 (17.20%) Palo Alto
6 20 (12.74%) Extreme Networks
7 19 (12.10%) Fortinet
7 19 (12.10%) Microsoft
8 18 (11.46%) IBM
9 17 (10.83%) HP
10 16 (10.19%) AppDynamics
10 16 (10.19%) ServiceNow
11 15 (9.55%) Commvault
12 14 (8.92%) Dell
12 14 (8.92%) Veeam
13 13 (8.28%) Meraki
14 10 (6.37%) Aruba
14 10 (6.37%) CheckPoint
15 8 (5.10%) LogicMonitor