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 25 August 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
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 402 415
Rank change year-on-year -124 +13 +48
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 144 151 151
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.46% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.64% 0.98% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 102 90
10th Percentile £306 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £391 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £508
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.54% +12.94%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £475 £504
% change year-on-year +9.26% -5.75% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - £58.15 -
25th Percentile £44.86 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £50.11 £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -24.65% +179.41% -61.60%
75th Percentile £55.66 £67.25 -
90th Percentile £57.29 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.11 £66.50 -
% change year-on-year -24.65% - -

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 22,372 15,460 16,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.71% 47.22% 43.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,803 9,448 10,476
10th Percentile £313 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,160 806 783
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.67 £13.30
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.73 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.21% -10.18% -36.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.30 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.03 £67.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £26.13
% change year-on-year +31.83% -18.70% -34.03%

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 25 August 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
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 25 August 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 -121 120 £500 +5.26% 27
UK excluding London -73 118 £519 +9.26% 18
South East -44 47 £538 +19.44% 6
Work from Home -60 27 £582 +29.28% 11
Midlands -54 22 £565 +18.95% 5
South West -29 21 £426 -41.24% 1
West Midlands -39 19 £570 +23.24% 5
Scotland +3 17 £475 +5.56% 2
London -98 17 £450 -5.26% 13
North of England -88 10 £400 -15.79% 4
North West -47 5 £400 -11.11% 4
Yorkshire -51 4 £519 +7.29%
East Midlands -16 3 £475 -26.92%
East of England -24 1 - - 2
North East -40 1 £225 -53.85%

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 (2.08%) Confluence
2 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.22%) Azure
2 16 (11.11%) AWS
3 7 (4.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.17%) Rubrik
5 3 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.08%) Datadog
5 3 (2.08%) GCP
5 3 (2.08%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (1.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.39%) Azure Storage
6 2 (1.39%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.39%) GitHub
6 2 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.39%) SaaS
7 1 (0.69%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 56 (38.89%) Firewall
2 55 (38.19%) WAN
3 54 (37.50%) DNS
4 52 (36.11%) LAN
5 37 (25.69%) DHCP
6 36 (25.00%) Network Security
7 32 (22.22%) BGP
8 31 (21.53%) SNMP
9 30 (20.83%) VPN
10 28 (19.44%) OSPF
11 23 (15.97%) Cisco Nexus
12 21 (14.58%) BIG-IP
13 19 (13.19%) MPLS
14 18 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
15 17 (11.81%) Cisco ISE
15 17 (11.81%) SD-WAN
16 16 (11.11%) VLAN
16 16 (11.11%) Wireless
17 15 (10.42%) IPsec
18 13 (9.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.39%) Power BI
3 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (3.47%) JIRA
2 3 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.39%) Git
3 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 37 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.03%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (4.86%) Legal
5 5 (3.47%) Finance
6 4 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Law
8 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 16 (11.11%) Consultant
2 16 (11.11%) Senior
3 14 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (9.72%) Management Consultant
4 10 (6.94%) Architect
4 10 (6.94%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (5.56%) Firewall Specialist
5 8 (5.56%) Network Specialist
6 7 (4.86%) Lead
6 7 (4.86%) Network Architect
7 6 (4.17%) Administrator
7 6 (4.17%) Analyst
7 6 (4.17%) DBA
7 6 (4.17%) Network Manager
7 6 (4.17%) SQL DBA
7 6 (4.17%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.47%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (3.47%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.89%) REST
2 18 (12.50%) 802.1X
3 12 (8.33%) Terraform
4 4 (2.78%) SAML
5 3 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.08%) LDAP
6 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.69%) Loki
6 1 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 17 (11.81%) PKI
3 12 (8.33%) Clustering
4 8 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.86%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.17%) CMDB
7 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
8 4 (2.78%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.78%) Replication
9 3 (2.08%) CSOC
9 3 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.08%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.39%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.39%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 78 (54.17%) Windows
2 50 (34.72%) Linux
3 19 (13.19%) AIX
4 13 (9.03%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.39%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.39%) Unix
7 1 (0.69%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.39%) ITIL
2 29 (20.14%) High Availability
2 29 (20.14%) Project Delivery
3 28 (19.44%) ITSM
4 24 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
5 21 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (13.89%) Load Balancing
6 20 (13.89%) Observability
6 20 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (13.19%) Network Virtualisation
8 18 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (11.11%) Service Delivery
10 16 (11.11%) Service Management
11 14 (9.72%) Agile
11 14 (9.72%) Dashboard Development
12 13 (9.03%) Change Management
12 13 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 43 (29.86%) PowerShell
2 38 (26.39%) Python
3 29 (20.14%) SQL
4 17 (11.81%) Search Processing Language
5 16 (11.11%) Bash
6 5 (3.47%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.78%) Perl
8 1 (0.69%) Java
8 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 37 (25.69%) DV Cleared
3 34 (23.61%) SC Cleared
4 26 (18.06%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.64%) CCNA
6 9 (6.25%) CCNP
7 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.86%) MCSE
9 5 (3.47%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.47%) Degree
10 4 (2.78%) CCIE
10 4 (2.78%) MCSA
11 3 (2.08%) CCA
11 3 (2.08%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (2.08%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.08%) PMP
12 2 (1.39%) JNCIA
12 2 (1.39%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.39%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.86%) NIST
2 6 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.78%) NCSC
4 2 (1.39%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.69%) PMO
5 1 (0.69%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (25.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (23.61%) Active Directory
3 16 (11.11%) VMware NSX
4 12 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (6.94%) vSphere
6 9 (6.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.08%) Firmware
8 3 (2.08%) NFS
9 2 (1.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.39%) SRDF
10 1 (0.69%) Docker
10 1 (0.69%) Samba
10 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (17.36%) Nagios
2 20 (13.89%) ZABBIX
3 18 (12.50%) Netcool
4 17 (11.81%) FortiGate
4 17 (11.81%) SCOM
4 17 (11.81%) Tivoli
5 15 (10.42%) OpenView
5 15 (10.42%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 13 (9.03%) vCenter Server
7 11 (7.64%) Ansible
8 10 (6.94%) SCCM
9 8 (5.56%) NetBackup
9 8 (5.56%) WMI
10 5 (3.47%) Kubernetes
11 4 (2.78%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (2.78%) Grafana
12 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (2.08%) Prometheus
12 3 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (2.08%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 82 (56.94%) Cisco
2 52 (36.11%) Splunk
3 45 (31.25%) VMware
4 42 (29.17%) Palo Alto
5 36 (25.00%) F5
6 32 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 23 (15.97%) ServiceNow
8 20 (13.89%) BMC
8 20 (13.89%) Fortinet
9 18 (12.50%) Juniper
10 16 (11.11%) Aruba
10 16 (11.11%) IBM
11 15 (10.42%) HP
12 11 (7.64%) Meraki
13 10 (6.94%) Extreme Networks
14 9 (6.25%) CheckPoint
14 9 (6.25%) Citrix
15 8 (5.56%) Veeam
16 7 (4.86%) NetApp
17 6 (4.17%) CyberArk