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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 409 427
Rank change year-on-year -125 +18 +16
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 156 150 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.46% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.68% 0.96% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 109 77
10th Percentile £361 £335 £295
25th Percentile £427 £406 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.73% -4.40% +8.11%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £613
90th Percentile £675 £650 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +9.81% +3.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £44.86 £58.15 -
25th Percentile £46.56 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.25 £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +179.41% -63.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.25 £27.35
90th Percentile - - £33.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.25 £66.50 -
% change year-on-year -12.41% - -

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 22,942 15,624 17,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.82% 47.42% 44.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,043 9,586 10,230
10th Percentile £310 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.30% -4.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,291 791 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £14.38
25th Percentile £16.64 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%
75th Percentile £62.25 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.35 £29.89
% change year-on-year +20.64% -28.58% -29.68%

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 19 September 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 19 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 15 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 19 September 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 -124 131 £536 +12.04% 89
UK excluding London -87 125 £538 +9.81% 55
South East -43 46 £538 +13.16% 12
Work from Home -71 27 £582 +29.28% 25
Midlands -39 23 £575 +16.46% 2
West Midlands -42 20 £575 +16.46% 2
London -97 20 £450 -5.26% 30
Scotland -3 18 £475 -2.56% 2
South West -32 18 £613 +11.36% 10
North of England -92 13 £400 -15.79% 9
East of England -20 7 - - 20
North West -63 6 £400 -11.11% 7
Yorkshire -52 4 £519 +8.58% 1
North East -48 3 £225 -55.00% 1
East Midlands - 3 £475 -

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 3 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (24.36%) Azure
2 16 (10.26%) AWS
3 6 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (3.85%) Datadog
3 6 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (3.85%) Rubrik
3 6 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.56%) GitHub
5 3 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.92%) GCP
5 3 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (1.92%) OpenShift
5 3 (1.92%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.92%) SaaS
6 2 (1.28%) Azure Storage
6 2 (1.28%) IaaS
6 2 (1.28%) PaaS
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 52 (33.33%) DNS
2 51 (32.69%) Firewall
3 48 (30.77%) LAN
3 48 (30.77%) WAN
4 40 (25.64%) Network Security
5 31 (19.87%) BGP
5 31 (19.87%) DHCP
6 29 (18.59%) VPN
7 27 (17.31%) OSPF
8 26 (16.67%) SNMP
9 21 (13.46%) Cisco Nexus
10 20 (12.82%) MPLS
11 18 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (10.90%) SD-WAN
12 17 (10.90%) VLAN
12 17 (10.90%) Wireless
13 15 (9.62%) Cisco ISE
13 15 (9.62%) TCP/IP
13 15 (9.62%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (8.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.92%) Power BI
4 1 (0.64%) Metadata
4 1 (0.64%) MySQL
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.85%) JIRA
2 3 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.28%) Git
3 2 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 39 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (5.13%) Legal
5 6 (3.85%) Finance
5 6 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.21%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.28%) Law
9 1 (0.64%) Aviation
9 1 (0.64%) Electronics
9 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (26.28%) Network Engineer
2 15 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (8.97%) Senior
4 13 (8.33%) Consultant
5 11 (7.05%) Support Engineer
6 10 (6.41%) Architect
6 10 (6.41%) Management Consultant
7 9 (5.77%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (5.13%) Lead
9 7 (4.49%) Administrator
9 7 (4.49%) DBA
9 7 (4.49%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) SQL DBA
10 6 (3.85%) Analyst
10 6 (3.85%) Network Architect
10 6 (3.85%) Network Manager
11 5 (3.21%) Data Centre Engineer
11 5 (3.21%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (3.21%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.26%) REST
2 14 (8.97%) Terraform
3 13 (8.33%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.92%) SAML
5 2 (1.28%) LDAP
5 2 (1.28%) YAML
6 1 (0.64%) JSON
6 1 (0.64%) Loki
6 1 (0.64%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.64%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.64%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.10%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.05%) PKI
3 9 (5.77%) CMDB
4 7 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.85%) Clustering
5 6 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (3.21%) Replication
7 4 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.56%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (2.56%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.92%) CSOC
8 3 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.92%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.92%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 80 (51.28%) Windows
2 49 (31.41%) Linux
3 20 (12.82%) Windows Server
4 12 (7.69%) AIX
5 11 (7.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.28%) Unix
8 1 (0.64%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (29.49%) ITIL
2 35 (22.44%) ITSM
3 29 (18.59%) Network Monitoring
3 29 (18.59%) Project Delivery
4 26 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (15.38%) High Availability
5 24 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
6 22 (14.10%) Service Delivery
7 21 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (12.82%) Service Management
9 19 (12.18%) Agile
9 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (10.26%) Load Balancing
10 16 (10.26%) Observability
11 15 (9.62%) Task Automation
12 14 (8.97%) Capacity Management
12 14 (8.97%) Network Management
12 14 (8.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 31 (19.87%) Python
3 26 (16.67%) SQL
4 16 (10.26%) Bash
5 10 (6.41%) Search Processing Language
6 6 (3.85%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.56%) Perl
8 1 (0.64%) Java
8 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 45 (28.85%) DV Cleared
3 31 (19.87%) SC Cleared
4 24 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (8.97%) CCNA
6 12 (7.69%) CCNP
7 8 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.49%) Degree
8 7 (4.49%) MCSE
9 5 (3.21%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.21%) CCIE
10 4 (2.56%) MCSA
11 3 (1.92%) CCA
11 3 (1.92%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.92%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.92%) PMP
12 2 (1.28%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (1.28%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.13%) NIST
2 6 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.56%) NCSC
4 2 (1.28%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.28%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.64%) PMO
5 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 45 (28.85%) Active Directory
2 43 (27.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (10.90%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (9.62%) VMware NSX
4 15 (9.62%) vSphere
5 9 (5.77%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.92%) NFS
8 2 (1.28%) Docker
8 2 (1.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.28%) Firmware
8 2 (1.28%) SRDF
9 1 (0.64%) Samba
9 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (16.03%) SCOM
2 24 (15.38%) Nagios
3 18 (11.54%) vCenter Server
4 14 (8.97%) ZABBIX
5 11 (7.05%) Ansible
5 11 (7.05%) Netcool
5 11 (7.05%) Tivoli
6 10 (6.41%) FortiGate
6 10 (6.41%) SCCM
7 9 (5.77%) OpenView
7 9 (5.77%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 9 (5.77%) WMI
8 8 (5.13%) NetBackup
9 7 (4.49%) Grafana
10 5 (3.21%) Kubernetes
10 5 (3.21%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (2.56%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.92%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (53.85%) Cisco
2 54 (34.62%) VMware
3 46 (29.49%) Splunk
4 44 (28.21%) Palo Alto
5 33 (21.15%) Microsoft
6 30 (19.23%) F5
6 30 (19.23%) ServiceNow
7 21 (13.46%) Fortinet
8 16 (10.26%) Aruba
9 14 (8.97%) BMC
9 14 (8.97%) Juniper
10 11 (7.05%) Broadcom
10 11 (7.05%) Meraki
11 10 (6.41%) IBM
11 10 (6.41%) Veeam
12 9 (5.77%) Citrix
12 9 (5.77%) HP
13 8 (5.13%) CheckPoint
14 7 (4.49%) Dynatrace
14 7 (4.49%) NetApp