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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 351 428
Rank change year-on-year -146 +77 +68
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 158 188 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.61% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.75% 1.28% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 131 100
10th Percentile £306 £285 £398
25th Percentile £423 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -5.05% +14.44%
75th Percentile £582 £557 £588
90th Percentile £684 £689 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £484 £514
% change year-on-year +3.36% -5.84% +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 21,090 14,680 18,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.98% 47.41% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,140 9,003 11,556
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 £713 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 694 1,154
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.30 £14.84
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%
75th Percentile £62.81 £53.69 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.09 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.00
% change year-on-year +43.61% -5.71% -25.70%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -143 136 £500 - 28
UK excluding London -103 130 £500 +3.36% 31
South East -28 57 £525 +13.51% 10
Work from Home -70 31 £582 +16.35% 9
South West -26 21 £426 -20.74% 1
Midlands -51 20 £500 -8.34% 5
London -109 19 £513 +2.50% 6
West Midlands -61 17 £533 -1.39% 1
Scotland +5 15 £500 +11.11% 5
North of England -97 15 £447 -5.89% 6
North West -57 10 £430 +1.18% 1
Yorkshire -55 6 £519 +7.29% 5
East Midlands -17 3 £475 -26.92% 4
East of England -22 2 £363 -9.38% 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 2 (1.27%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) Apache
2 1 (0.63%) IIS
2 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.16%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.42%) Azure
2 20 (12.66%) AWS
3 8 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.43%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (3.80%) SaaS
6 4 (2.53%) GCP
7 3 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.90%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.90%) PaaS
7 3 (1.90%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.27%) Datadog
8 2 (1.27%) GitHub
8 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (43.67%) Firewall
1 69 (43.67%) WAN
2 65 (41.14%) LAN
3 58 (36.71%) DNS
4 44 (27.85%) DHCP
5 39 (24.68%) BGP
6 37 (23.42%) OSPF
7 34 (21.52%) BIG-IP
8 30 (18.99%) SNMP
8 30 (18.99%) VPN
9 27 (17.09%) Ethernet VPN
9 27 (17.09%) Network Security
9 27 (17.09%) VXLAN
10 24 (15.19%) Junos
11 22 (13.92%) Cisco Nexus
12 21 (13.29%) MPLS
13 20 (12.66%) Cisco ISE
13 20 (12.66%) SD-WAN
14 16 (10.13%) VLAN
15 14 (8.86%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.27%) Power BI
4 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.53%) JIRA
1 4 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.27%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 37 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.96%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (4.43%) Legal
4 7 (4.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.80%) Finance
6 5 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.16%) Law
6 5 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.53%) Military
7 4 (2.53%) Retail
8 3 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.27%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 40 (25.32%) Network Engineer
2 19 (12.03%) Senior
3 16 (10.13%) Architect
3 16 (10.13%) Consultant
4 15 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (8.86%) Firewall Specialist
5 14 (8.86%) Management Consultant
5 14 (8.86%) Network Specialist
6 12 (7.59%) Senior Network Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) DBA
7 10 (6.33%) SQL DBA
8 9 (5.70%) Lead
8 9 (5.70%) Network Architect
9 8 (5.06%) Network Manager
10 7 (4.43%) Administrator
10 7 (4.43%) Analyst
11 5 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 4 (2.53%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
12 4 (2.53%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.62%) 802.1X
2 20 (12.66%) REST
3 5 (3.16%) SAML
4 4 (2.53%) LDAP
5 3 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.27%) Middleware
7 1 (0.63%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.63%) Loki
7 1 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.63%) SOAP
7 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (27.22%) Data Centre
2 31 (19.62%) Clustering
3 27 (17.09%) PKI
4 9 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.06%) Replication
5 8 (5.06%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.43%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.80%) CMDB
8 4 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.53%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.90%) CSOC
9 3 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.90%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.27%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.27%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 83 (52.53%) Windows
2 45 (28.48%) Linux
3 19 (12.03%) AIX
4 15 (9.49%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.90%) Unix
7 2 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.63%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.63%) VMS
8 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.85%) ITIL
2 40 (25.32%) High Availability
3 35 (22.15%) Observability
4 32 (20.25%) ITSM
4 32 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (19.62%) Load Balancing
6 28 (17.72%) Project Delivery
7 24 (15.19%) Identity Access Management
8 22 (13.92%) Network Monitoring
9 21 (13.29%) Service Management
10 20 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (10.13%) Change Management
12 16 (10.13%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (8.86%) Dashboard Development
14 13 (8.23%) Capacity Planning
15 12 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
15 12 (7.59%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 45 (28.48%) PowerShell
2 37 (23.42%) Python
3 32 (20.25%) SQL
4 17 (10.76%) Search Processing Language
5 15 (9.49%) Bash
6 4 (2.53%) Perl
7 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.63%) Java
8 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 92 (58.23%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.95%) DV Cleared
3 38 (24.05%) SC Cleared
4 37 (23.42%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (8.86%) CCNP
6 9 (5.70%) CCNA
7 8 (5.06%) JNCIS
7 8 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.43%) JNCIA
8 7 (4.43%) JNCIP
9 6 (3.80%) CCIE
9 6 (3.80%) MCSE
10 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.53%) Degree
11 4 (2.53%) MCSA
11 4 (2.53%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.53%) PMP
12 3 (1.90%) CCA
12 3 (1.90%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (4.43%) NCSC
2 6 (3.80%) NIST
3 3 (1.90%) QA
4 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) GRC
5 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.63%) PMO
5 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (20.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (17.09%) Active Directory
3 15 (9.49%) VMware NSX
4 12 (7.59%) vSphere
5 9 (5.70%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.80%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.90%) NFS
9 2 (1.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.27%) Firmware
9 2 (1.27%) SRDF
10 1 (0.63%) Docker
10 1 (0.63%) Samba
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (17.72%) FortiGate
2 24 (15.19%) Nagios
3 20 (12.66%) ZABBIX
4 18 (11.39%) Netcool
5 17 (10.76%) Tivoli
6 15 (9.49%) OpenView
6 15 (9.49%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 13 (8.23%) Ansible
8 12 (7.59%) Terraform
9 10 (6.33%) SCCM
9 10 (6.33%) SCOM
10 9 (5.70%) vCenter Server
11 8 (5.06%) WMI
12 7 (4.43%) Cisco Prime
13 5 (3.16%) Kubernetes
13 5 (3.16%) NetBackup
14 4 (2.53%) Grafana
14 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (1.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 94 (59.49%) Cisco
2 59 (37.34%) Splunk
3 47 (29.75%) F5
4 42 (26.58%) Palo Alto
5 36 (22.78%) Juniper
5 36 (22.78%) VMware
6 31 (19.62%) Microsoft
7 25 (15.82%) ServiceNow
8 23 (14.56%) Extreme Networks
9 22 (13.92%) Fortinet
10 21 (13.29%) BMC
11 17 (10.76%) Aruba
12 16 (10.13%) HP
12 16 (10.13%) IBM
13 14 (8.86%) CheckPoint
14 11 (6.96%) Meraki
15 9 (5.70%) RedGate
16 7 (4.43%) NetApp
16 7 (4.43%) Veeam
17 6 (3.80%) Citrix