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 September 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
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 431 469
Rank change year-on-year +25 +38 +129
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 152 139 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.36% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.98% 0.82% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 78 120
10th Percentile £334 £296 £319
25th Percentile £402 £360 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £547 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £634 £652
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.63% +5.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile £58.15 - £36.83
25th Percentile £61.00 - £54.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +179.41% -63.93% +35.82%
75th Percentile £67.25 £27.35 -
90th Percentile - £33.74 £67.98
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 15,513 17,031 22,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.13% 44.19% 44.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,498 10,278 14,586
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 797 693 649
10th Percentile £14.69 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -27.06% +83.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -25.00% +100.00%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds 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 September 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 13 September 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 +26 136 £478 -4.40% 53
UK excluding London +1 102 £478 +0.63% 45
London +43 38 £475 -5.00% 16
North of England -13 34 £475 +2.70% 7
South East +6 32 £500 - 20
Work from Home +15 31 £450 -1.64% 28
Yorkshire +1 18 £478 +112.44% 2
North West -21 15 £400 -13.51% 3
South West +29 14 £550 +30.95% 4
West Midlands -3 13 £494 +190.44% 7
Midlands -9 13 £494 -1.25% 10
Channel Islands - 3 £725 -
Wales +5 2 £333 -
East of England - 2 £391 - 1
Scotland - 2 £450 - 3
North East - 1 £500 - 2

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.61%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.29%) Confluence
4 4 (2.63%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.32%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.66%) Apache
6 1 (0.66%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.11%) Azure
2 21 (13.82%) AWS
3 9 (5.92%) Akamai
4 5 (3.29%) IaaS
4 5 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.97%) Datadog
5 3 (1.97%) GCP
5 3 (1.97%) Nutanix
5 3 (1.97%) SaaS
6 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.32%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.32%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.32%) Serverless
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.66%) Cohesity
7 1 (0.66%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.66%) PaaS
7 1 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 83 (54.61%) Firewall
2 45 (29.61%) Cisco ISE
3 44 (28.95%) BGP
4 41 (26.97%) OSPF
5 39 (25.66%) VPN
5 39 (25.66%) WAN
6 38 (25.00%) DNS
7 34 (22.37%) Network Security
7 34 (22.37%) SD-WAN
8 31 (20.39%) VLAN
9 29 (19.08%) Wireless
10 26 (17.11%) DHCP
11 24 (15.79%) LAN
12 23 (15.13%) Cisco Nexus
12 23 (15.13%) TCP/IP
13 22 (14.47%) EIGRP
14 19 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 18 (11.84%) Wireshark
16 16 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
16 16 (10.53%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (7.24%) JIRA
2 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.66%) Git
General
1 32 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.39%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.55%) Finance
5 6 (3.95%) Law
5 6 (3.95%) Legal
6 4 (2.63%) Banking
6 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Electronics
8 2 (1.32%) Local Government
8 2 (1.32%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Police
9 1 (0.66%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 76 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 21 (13.82%) Support Engineer
3 14 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (8.55%) Analyst
4 13 (8.55%) Network Analyst
4 13 (8.55%) Security Engineer
5 12 (7.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 11 (7.24%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 11 (7.24%) Network Security Engineer
6 11 (7.24%) Network Support
7 10 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) Network Support Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) Senior
8 9 (5.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) 2nd Line Support
8 9 (5.92%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) 3rd Line Support
8 9 (5.92%) Cisco Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Cloud Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.63%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.42%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.92%) Security Posture
3 6 (3.95%) PKI
4 5 (3.29%) CMDB
4 5 (3.29%) Replication
5 4 (2.63%) Clustering
5 4 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Life Science
8 1 (0.66%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (24.34%) Windows
2 20 (13.16%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.29%) Linux
3 5 (3.29%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (1.32%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.32%) Windows 8
4 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.32%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (21.71%) Network Monitoring
2 28 (18.42%) ITIL
3 21 (13.82%) ITSM
3 21 (13.82%) Service Management
4 18 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (11.18%) Migration
6 16 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (9.87%) Agile
7 15 (9.87%) High Availability
8 12 (7.89%) Performance Monitoring
9 11 (7.24%) Change Management
9 11 (7.24%) Network Segmentation
10 10 (6.58%) Problem Management
11 9 (5.92%) Patch Management
12 8 (5.26%) Load Balancing
13 7 (4.61%) Incident Management
14 6 (3.95%) Asset Management
14 6 (3.95%) Computer Science
14 6 (3.95%) Network Design
14 6 (3.95%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.87%) Python
2 13 (8.55%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.89%) SQL
4 7 (4.61%) Bash
5 4 (2.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (46.71%) Security Cleared
2 39 (25.66%) Cisco Certification
3 38 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 30 (19.74%) CCNP
4 30 (19.74%) DV Cleared
5 13 (8.55%) CCNA
6 11 (7.24%) Degree
7 9 (5.92%) CCSA
8 6 (3.95%) CCIE
9 5 (3.29%) CISSP
10 4 (2.63%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (2.63%) CISA
10 4 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.97%) CCDP
11 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.97%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.97%) MCSE
11 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.63%) JSP 440
2 4 (2.63%) RMADS
3 2 (1.32%) NCSC
3 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.32%) PMO
3 2 (1.32%) SLA
4 1 (0.66%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.66%) GDPR
4 1 (0.66%) GRC
4 1 (0.66%) NIST
4 1 (0.66%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (17.76%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.89%) VMware NSX
4 7 (4.61%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.61%) vSphere
5 5 (3.29%) Firmware
5 5 (3.29%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.32%) XenApp
8 1 (0.66%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (12.50%) Ansible
2 16 (10.53%) vCenter Server
3 13 (8.55%) SCCM
4 9 (5.92%) FortiGate
4 9 (5.92%) SCOM
5 8 (5.26%) Cisco Prime
6 6 (3.95%) Terraform
7 5 (3.29%) CA Spectrum
7 5 (3.29%) Nagios
7 5 (3.29%) Tivoli
7 5 (3.29%) WSUS
8 3 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.97%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (1.97%) Iperf
8 3 (1.97%) Nmap
9 2 (1.32%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (1.32%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.66%) Netcool
10 1 (0.66%) OPNET
10 1 (0.66%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 106 (69.74%) Cisco
2 40 (26.32%) F5
3 32 (21.05%) Fortinet
3 32 (21.05%) Juniper
4 31 (20.39%) Palo Alto
5 28 (18.42%) CheckPoint
6 23 (15.13%) VMware
7 22 (14.47%) Microsoft
8 20 (13.16%) Meraki
9 16 (10.53%) Veeam
10 11 (7.24%) LogicMonitor
10 11 (7.24%) ServiceNow
11 9 (5.92%) Dell
12 7 (4.61%) Citrix
13 6 (3.95%) Aruba
14 5 (3.29%) Arista
14 5 (3.29%) Splunk
15 4 (2.63%) NetApp
16 3 (1.97%) ConnectWise
16 3 (1.97%) McAfee