SolarWinds Contracts

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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 431 494
Rank change year-on-year +77 +63 +122
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 189 160 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 1.27% 0.86% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 100 121
10th Percentile £287 £398 £313
25th Percentile £400 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +14.44% -1.15%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £563
90th Percentile £689 £634 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £514 £450
% change year-on-year -5.84% +14.17% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £56.68
25th Percentile £56.25 - £62.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £23.80 £62.62
Median % change year-on-year +141.60% -61.99% +39.92%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £69.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.62
% change year-on-year - - +40.71%

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 14,890 18,640 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.53% 42.88% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,101 11,577 16,146
10th Percentile £280 £271 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 1,161 648
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.40 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +83.51%
75th Percentile £53.25 £59.95 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.56 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.31% -23.00% +50.10%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 17 Contract 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 3 July 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 +71 162 £500 -2.91% 221
UK excluding London +38 116 £484 -5.84% 114
London +65 57 £500 -4.76% 124
Work from Home +34 47 £500 - 90
North of England +13 38 £475 -7.32% 33
South East +13 27 £463 -7.50% 39
Midlands +23 22 £546 -9.08% 10
West Midlands - 20 £540 - 6
North West -8 17 £425 -17.07% 23
Yorkshire - 17 £484 - 7
South West +41 14 £538 +0.47% 9
Wales +15 10 £290 - 1
East of England - 4 £400 - 13
North East - 4 £550 - 3
Channel Islands - 3 £725 -
Scotland -1 2 £450 +7.14% 4
East Midlands -8 2 £650 +8.33% 4

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 6 (3.17%) Confluence
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.59%) IIS
3 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
4 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (22.22%) Azure
2 35 (18.52%) AWS
3 8 (4.23%) IaaS
3 8 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.70%) GCP
5 6 (3.17%) Akamai
6 5 (2.65%) GitHub
6 5 (2.65%) Nutanix
7 4 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.12%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.12%) PaaS
8 3 (1.59%) Datadog
8 3 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.06%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 95 (50.26%) Firewall
2 64 (33.86%) OSPF
3 63 (33.33%) BGP
4 52 (27.51%) VPN
5 43 (22.75%) DNS
6 42 (22.22%) Network Security
7 41 (21.69%) WAN
8 39 (20.63%) Cisco ISE
9 37 (19.58%) SD-WAN
10 36 (19.05%) Wireless
11 31 (16.40%) VLAN
12 30 (15.87%) EIGRP
13 27 (14.29%) DHCP
14 24 (12.70%) IPsec
15 23 (12.17%) MPLS
16 22 (11.64%) LAN
17 21 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 20 (10.58%) Cisco ASA
19 18 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
19 18 (9.52%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.59%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.53%) MySQL
3 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.88%) JIRA
2 5 (2.65%) Git
3 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.06%) Subversion
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
General
1 43 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.17%) Public Sector
3 18 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.47%) Finance
5 6 (3.17%) Legal
6 5 (2.65%) Banking
6 5 (2.65%) Law
7 4 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Electronics
9 2 (1.06%) Local Government
9 2 (1.06%) Marketing
9 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Military
10 1 (0.53%) Police
10 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 85 (44.97%) Network Engineer
2 16 (8.47%) Security Engineer
3 15 (7.94%) Analyst
3 15 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (7.41%) Network Security Engineer
4 14 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
5 13 (6.88%) Cisco Engineer
5 13 (6.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 13 (6.88%) Support Engineer
6 12 (6.35%) Network Analyst
7 11 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (5.82%) Lead
7 11 (5.82%) Principal Network Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) Architect
8 9 (4.76%) Implementation Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) Senior
9 8 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 8 (4.23%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.29%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.53%) ADO
3 1 (0.53%) JSON
3 1 (0.53%) Node.js
3 1 (0.53%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.46%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 5 (2.65%) Clustering
3 5 (2.65%) CMDB
3 5 (2.65%) CSOC
4 4 (2.12%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.06%) Anti-Spyware
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.06%) SCADA
6 2 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (22.75%) Windows
2 24 (12.70%) Windows Server
3 17 (8.99%) Linux
4 11 (5.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.70%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.65%) VMS
6 5 (2.65%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.59%) Unix
8 2 (1.06%) CentOS
8 2 (1.06%) Mac OS X
8 2 (1.06%) Solaris
8 2 (1.06%) Windows 8
8 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.06%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.51%) Network Monitoring
2 40 (21.16%) ITIL
3 31 (16.40%) Migration
4 23 (12.17%) High Availability
5 22 (11.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (10.58%) Agile
6 20 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (8.47%) Patch Management
8 15 (7.94%) Change Management
8 15 (7.94%) ITSM
9 14 (7.41%) Project Delivery
10 12 (6.35%) Network Management
10 12 (6.35%) Network Segmentation
10 12 (6.35%) Performance Monitoring
11 11 (5.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (5.29%) Computer Science
12 10 (5.29%) Incident Management
12 10 (5.29%) Service Management
12 10 (5.29%) SIEM
13 9 (4.76%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.05%) Python
2 17 (8.99%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.88%) SQL
4 8 (4.23%) Bash
5 3 (1.59%) Perl
6 1 (0.53%) C
6 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 74 (39.15%) Security Cleared
2 55 (29.10%) SC Cleared
3 52 (27.51%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (17.99%) CCNP
5 18 (9.52%) Degree
5 18 (9.52%) DV Cleared
6 13 (6.88%) CCIE
7 11 (5.82%) CCNA
8 10 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (4.76%) CCSA
10 6 (3.17%) CISSP
11 5 (2.65%) CCIE Service Provider
12 4 (2.12%) CESG Certified Professional
12 4 (2.12%) CISA
12 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.59%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.59%) RHCE
13 3 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (1.06%) JNCIA
14 2 (1.06%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.65%) SLA
3 4 (2.12%) JSP 440
3 4 (2.12%) RMADS
4 3 (1.59%) GDPR
4 3 (1.59%) NIST
4 3 (1.59%) QA
5 2 (1.06%) NCSC
5 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.06%) PMO
6 1 (0.53%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.53%) GRC
6 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
System Software
1 26 (13.76%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.82%) vSphere
4 8 (4.23%) Firmware
4 8 (4.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.06%) XenApp
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (16.40%) Ansible
2 16 (8.47%) ZABBIX
3 15 (7.94%) Terraform
4 14 (7.41%) SCCM
5 13 (6.88%) SCOM
6 11 (5.82%) Nagios
7 8 (4.23%) CA Spectrum
7 8 (4.23%) Cisco Prime
7 8 (4.23%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.65%) Cacti
8 5 (2.65%) Tivoli
9 4 (2.12%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.12%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (1.59%) Autotask
10 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.59%) WSUS
11 2 (1.06%) Netcool
11 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.06%) VxRail
Vendors
1 107 (56.61%) Cisco
2 44 (23.28%) F5
3 40 (21.16%) VMware
4 35 (18.52%) Juniper
5 34 (17.99%) Palo Alto
6 27 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 27 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 25 (13.23%) Fortinet
8 21 (11.11%) ServiceNow
9 18 (9.52%) Meraki
10 11 (5.82%) Red Hat
11 10 (5.29%) Dell
12 9 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
13 8 (4.23%) Nokia
13 8 (4.23%) Splunk
13 8 (4.23%) Veeam
14 7 (3.70%) Citrix
14 7 (3.70%) NETGEAR
15 6 (3.17%) Arista
15 6 (3.17%) Symantec