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 10 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
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 370 426
Rank change year-on-year -132 +56 +68
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 160 189 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.58% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.74% 1.23% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 130 100
10th Percentile £306 £285 £398
25th Percentile £415 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% -5.00% +14.44%
75th Percentile £582 £572 £588
90th Percentile £683 £690 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £515
% change year-on-year +4.60% -7.18% +14.44%
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% -61.61%
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 21,701 15,371 18,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.23% 47.50% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,508 9,423 11,588
10th Percentile £313 £281 £267
25th Percentile £413 £403 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 733 1,141
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.75 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.61 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.62% +0.60% -38.34%
75th Percentile £63.94 £52.16 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.55 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.18
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.41% -22.00%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -133 138 £500 - 27
UK excluding London -104 132 £500 +4.60% 25
South East -29 57 £525 +13.51% 11
Work from Home -65 31 £582 +16.35% 14
South West -24 21 £426 -20.74% 1
Midlands -56 20 £500 -7.41% 3
London -104 20 £500 - 7
West Midlands -68 17 £533 -1.11%
North of England -102 17 £439 -7.68% 6
Scotland +1 16 £500 +11.11% 2
North West -48 11 £430 +1.18% 1
Yorkshire -58 7 £519 +7.29% 5
East Midlands -13 3 £475 -26.92% 3
East of England -35 1 - - 1

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 (1.25%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.13%) Azure
2 21 (13.13%) AWS
3 7 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (3.75%) SaaS
5 5 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.13%) GCP
6 3 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (1.88%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.88%) PaaS
6 3 (1.88%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.25%) Datadog
7 2 (1.25%) GitHub
7 2 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (43.75%) WAN
2 69 (43.13%) Firewall
3 68 (42.50%) LAN
4 58 (36.25%) DNS
5 44 (27.50%) DHCP
6 42 (26.25%) BGP
7 40 (25.00%) OSPF
8 34 (21.25%) BIG-IP
9 31 (19.38%) VPN
10 30 (18.75%) SNMP
11 28 (17.50%) Network Security
12 27 (16.88%) Ethernet VPN
12 27 (16.88%) VXLAN
13 24 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
13 24 (15.00%) Junos
14 23 (14.38%) Cisco ISE
15 21 (13.13%) MPLS
16 20 (12.50%) SD-WAN
17 17 (10.63%) VLAN
18 15 (9.38%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.88%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.25%) Power BI
4 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.50%) JIRA
1 4 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.25%) Git
2 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 35 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.88%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.38%) Legal
6 6 (3.75%) Finance
7 5 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.13%) Law
7 5 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.50%) Military
8 4 (2.50%) Retail
9 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.25%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 40 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 18 (11.25%) Senior
3 16 (10.00%) Architect
3 16 (10.00%) Consultant
4 14 (8.75%) Firewall Specialist
4 14 (8.75%) Management Consultant
4 14 (8.75%) Network Specialist
5 13 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.50%) Senior Network Engineer
7 11 (6.88%) DBA
7 11 (6.88%) SQL DBA
8 9 (5.63%) Lead
8 9 (5.63%) Network Architect
9 8 (5.00%) Network Manager
10 7 (4.38%) Administrator
11 6 (3.75%) Analyst
12 5 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 4 (2.50%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
13 4 (2.50%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.38%) 802.1X
2 21 (13.13%) REST
3 5 (3.13%) SAML
4 4 (2.50%) LDAP
5 3 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.25%) 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 (26.88%) Data Centre
2 31 (19.38%) Clustering
3 27 (16.88%) PKI
4 9 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.63%) Replication
5 8 (5.00%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.38%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.75%) CMDB
8 4 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.50%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.88%) CSOC
9 3 (1.88%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.88%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.25%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.25%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 83 (51.88%) Windows
2 45 (28.13%) Linux
3 19 (11.88%) AIX
4 14 (8.75%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.25%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.25%) Unix
6 2 (1.25%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.63%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.63%) VMS
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.50%) High Availability
1 44 (27.50%) ITIL
2 35 (21.88%) Observability
3 32 (20.00%) ITSM
4 31 (19.38%) Load Balancing
4 31 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (18.13%) Project Delivery
6 25 (15.63%) Network Monitoring
7 24 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
8 21 (13.13%) Service Management
9 19 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (10.63%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (10.00%) Change Management
11 16 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (8.75%) Dashboard Development
13 13 (8.13%) Capacity Planning
13 13 (8.13%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (8.13%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (28.75%) PowerShell
2 39 (24.38%) Python
3 33 (20.63%) SQL
4 17 (10.63%) Search Processing Language
5 15 (9.38%) Bash
6 4 (2.50%) Perl
6 4 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.63%) Java
7 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 92 (57.50%) Security Cleared
2 40 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 39 (24.38%) SC Cleared
4 38 (23.75%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (8.75%) CCNP
6 10 (6.25%) CCNA
7 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.38%) JNCIA
8 7 (4.38%) JNCIP
8 7 (4.38%) JNCIS
9 6 (3.75%) CCIE
9 6 (3.75%) MCSE
10 5 (3.13%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.50%) Degree
11 4 (2.50%) MCSA
11 4 (2.50%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.50%) PMP
12 3 (1.88%) CCA
12 3 (1.88%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (4.38%) NCSC
2 6 (3.75%) NIST
3 3 (1.88%) QA
4 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.25%) 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 31 (19.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (17.50%) Active Directory
3 14 (8.75%) VMware NSX
4 12 (7.50%) vSphere
5 9 (5.63%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.75%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.88%) NFS
9 2 (1.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.25%) Firmware
9 2 (1.25%) SRDF
10 1 (0.63%) Docker
10 1 (0.63%) Samba
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (17.50%) FortiGate
2 24 (15.00%) Nagios
3 20 (12.50%) ZABBIX
4 18 (11.25%) Netcool
5 17 (10.63%) Tivoli
6 15 (9.38%) OpenView
6 15 (9.38%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 13 (8.13%) Ansible
8 12 (7.50%) Terraform
9 11 (6.88%) SCOM
10 10 (6.25%) vCenter Server
11 9 (5.63%) SCCM
12 8 (5.00%) WMI
13 7 (4.38%) Cisco Prime
14 5 (3.13%) Kubernetes
14 5 (3.13%) NetBackup
15 4 (2.50%) Grafana
15 4 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
16 3 (1.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 96 (60.00%) Cisco
2 60 (37.50%) Splunk
3 46 (28.75%) F5
4 43 (26.88%) Palo Alto
5 36 (22.50%) Juniper
5 36 (22.50%) VMware
6 31 (19.38%) Microsoft
7 26 (16.25%) ServiceNow
8 23 (14.38%) Extreme Networks
8 23 (14.38%) Fortinet
9 22 (13.75%) BMC
10 18 (11.25%) Aruba
11 16 (10.00%) HP
11 16 (10.00%) IBM
12 14 (8.75%) CheckPoint
13 11 (6.88%) Meraki
14 10 (6.25%) RedGate
15 7 (4.38%) NetApp
16 6 (3.75%) Citrix
16 6 (3.75%) Veeam