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 30 June 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
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 349 428
Rank change year-on-year -155 +79 +66
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 150 189 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.62% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 1.30% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 132 100
10th Percentile £305 £287 £398
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% -5.00% +14.44%
75th Percentile £581 £554 £588
90th Percentile £688 £689 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £514
% change year-on-year +2.15% -4.72% +14.17%
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% -61.99%
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 21,000 14,497 18,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.92% 47.38% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,095 8,886 11,472
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,085 687 1,156
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.30 £14.72
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.19
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +3.99% -40.35%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.63 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.79 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.82 £23.50
% change year-on-year +42.45% -2.91% -27.24%

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 30 June 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 30 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 14 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 30 June 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 -148 130 £500 - 27
UK excluding London -88 125 £500 +2.15% 30
South East -39 54 £520 +12.43% 10
Work from Home -65 30 £525 +5.00% 9
South West -22 21 £426 -20.74% 1
Midlands -63 20 £500 -9.26% 4
West Midlands -59 17 £533 -2.38%
London -127 16 £513 +2.50% 6
North of England -99 15 £447 -5.89% 5
Scotland -1 13 £500 +11.11% 5
North West -53 10 £430 +1.18% 1
Yorkshire -63 6 £519 +7.29% 4
East Midlands -15 3 £475 -26.92% 4
East of England -28 2 £363 -9.38% 3

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 (1.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) Apache
2 1 (0.67%) IIS
2 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (24.67%) Azure
2 20 (13.33%) AWS
3 9 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.67%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (4.00%) SaaS
6 4 (2.67%) GCP
7 3 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.00%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.00%) PaaS
8 2 (1.33%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.33%) Datadog
8 2 (1.33%) GitHub
8 2 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.33%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (44.67%) WAN
2 66 (44.00%) Firewall
3 65 (43.33%) LAN
4 53 (35.33%) DNS
5 41 (27.33%) DHCP
6 36 (24.00%) BGP
7 35 (23.33%) OSPF
8 33 (22.00%) BIG-IP
9 30 (20.00%) SNMP
10 28 (18.67%) VPN
11 27 (18.00%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (18.00%) VXLAN
12 24 (16.00%) Junos
13 22 (14.67%) Network Security
14 20 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
14 20 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
14 20 (13.33%) SD-WAN
15 19 (12.67%) MPLS
16 16 (10.67%) VLAN
17 14 (9.33%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.33%) Power BI
4 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.67%) JIRA
1 4 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.67%) Git
General
1 35 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.33%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (4.00%) Finance
4 6 (4.00%) Legal
4 6 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.33%) Law
5 5 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.67%) Military
6 4 (2.67%) Retail
7 3 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.33%) Aviation
8 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (25.33%) Network Engineer
2 19 (12.67%) Senior
3 16 (10.67%) Architect
3 16 (10.67%) Consultant
4 14 (9.33%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (9.33%) Management Consultant
4 14 (9.33%) Network Specialist
5 13 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) DBA
7 10 (6.67%) SQL DBA
8 9 (6.00%) Lead
8 9 (6.00%) Network Architect
9 8 (5.33%) Network Manager
10 7 (4.67%) Administrator
10 7 (4.67%) Analyst
11 5 (3.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Lead Architect
12 4 (2.67%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.00%) 802.1X
2 20 (13.33%) REST
3 4 (2.67%) LDAP
3 4 (2.67%) SAML
4 3 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.33%) Middleware
6 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.67%) Loki
6 1 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.67%) SOAP
6 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (28.67%) Data Centre
2 31 (20.67%) Clustering
3 27 (18.00%) PKI
4 9 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.33%) Replication
5 8 (5.33%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.67%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.00%) CMDB
8 4 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.67%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.00%) CSOC
9 3 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.00%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 77 (51.33%) Windows
2 41 (27.33%) Linux
3 19 (12.67%) AIX
4 15 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.00%) Unix
5 3 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.33%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.67%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.67%) VMS
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.00%) ITIL
2 39 (26.00%) High Availability
3 35 (23.33%) Observability
4 30 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 30 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (18.00%) ITSM
6 24 (16.00%) Identity Access Management
6 24 (16.00%) Project Delivery
7 22 (14.67%) Network Monitoring
8 21 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (12.00%) Service Management
10 16 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (9.33%) Change Management
11 14 (9.33%) Dashboard Development
11 14 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (8.67%) Capacity Planning
13 12 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 41 (27.33%) PowerShell
2 36 (24.00%) Python
3 32 (21.33%) SQL
4 17 (11.33%) Search Processing Language
5 11 (7.33%) Bash
6 4 (2.67%) Perl
7 3 (2.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 87 (58.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.33%) DV Cleared
3 37 (24.67%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (24.00%) SC Cleared
5 14 (9.33%) CCNP
6 9 (6.00%) CCNA
7 8 (5.33%) JNCIS
7 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.67%) JNCIA
8 7 (4.67%) JNCIP
9 6 (4.00%) CCIE
9 6 (4.00%) MCSE
10 5 (3.33%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.67%) Degree
11 4 (2.67%) MCSA
11 4 (2.67%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.67%) PMP
12 3 (2.00%) CCA
12 3 (2.00%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (4.67%) NCSC
2 6 (4.00%) NIST
3 3 (2.00%) QA
4 2 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.67%) PMO
5 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (17.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (14.67%) Active Directory
3 14 (9.33%) VMware NSX
4 12 (8.00%) vSphere
5 7 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.00%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.33%) Firmware
8 2 (1.33%) NFS
8 2 (1.33%) SRDF
9 1 (0.67%) Docker
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (18.00%) FortiGate
2 23 (15.33%) Nagios
3 19 (12.67%) ZABBIX
4 18 (12.00%) Netcool
5 17 (11.33%) Tivoli
6 15 (10.00%) OpenView
6 15 (10.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 12 (8.00%) Ansible
8 11 (7.33%) Terraform
9 8 (5.33%) WMI
10 7 (4.67%) SCCM
11 6 (4.00%) Cisco Prime
11 6 (4.00%) vCenter Server
12 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (3.33%) SCOM
13 4 (2.67%) Grafana
13 4 (2.67%) Kubernetes
13 4 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (1.33%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (1.33%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 91 (60.67%) Cisco
2 56 (37.33%) Splunk
3 45 (30.00%) F5
4 39 (26.00%) Palo Alto
5 35 (23.33%) Juniper
6 31 (20.67%) Microsoft
7 30 (20.00%) VMware
8 25 (16.67%) ServiceNow
9 23 (15.33%) Extreme Networks
10 21 (14.00%) BMC
11 20 (13.33%) Fortinet
12 16 (10.67%) HP
12 16 (10.67%) IBM
13 15 (10.00%) Aruba
14 14 (9.33%) CheckPoint
15 11 (7.33%) Meraki
16 9 (6.00%) RedGate
17 8 (5.33%) Veeam
18 6 (4.00%) Dynatrace
18 6 (4.00%) NetApp