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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 368 447
Rank change year-on-year -107 +79 +93
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 143 160 151
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.55% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.72% 1.15% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 111 110
10th Percentile £293 £285 £330
25th Percentile £354 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +1.94% +14.44%
75th Percentile £525 £616 £622
90th Percentile £625 £689 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -20.27% +6.80% +17.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £42.05 - -
25th Percentile £43.11 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £28.15
75th Percentile £62.29 - £42.19
90th Percentile £68.11 - £57.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 - £63.00
% change year-on-year - - +0.61%

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 19,836 13,936 18,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.93% 47.52% 42.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,657 8,733 11,440
10th Percentile £313 £290 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.43% -1.48%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £627
90th Percentile £704 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 994 562 1,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.86 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £14.48
Median hourly rate £30.88 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.73% +17.56% -48.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -45.71%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -112 130 £458 -15.14% 34
UK excluding London -82 113 £439 -20.27% 30
South East -30 47 £500 -9.09% 8
Work from Home -48 35 £430 -14.00% 13
South West -21 21 £428 -18.48% 10
London -100 21 £500 - 11
North of England -64 18 £353 -23.58% 4
Midlands -80 17 £302 -48.33% 3
West Midlands -63 16 £300 -45.55% 3
North West -42 15 £350 -17.65% 2
East of England -29 6 £363 -22.25% 1
Scotland +4 4 £500 +11.11% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £519 - 1
East Midlands -44 1 £475 -26.98%

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 7 (4.90%) Confluence
2 6 (4.20%) IIS
3 5 (3.50%) Apache
4 4 (2.80%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (8.39%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.17%) Azure
2 23 (16.08%) AWS
3 14 (9.79%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.90%) Datadog
6 5 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.80%) GCP
7 4 (2.80%) Nutanix
7 4 (2.80%) SaaS
8 3 (2.10%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.10%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.10%) PaaS
9 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.70%) Cohesity
10 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.70%) OCI
10 1 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (48.95%) Firewall
2 58 (40.56%) WAN
3 55 (38.46%) LAN
4 45 (31.47%) DNS
5 37 (25.87%) DHCP
6 33 (23.08%) BGP
6 33 (23.08%) OSPF
7 29 (20.28%) BIG-IP
7 29 (20.28%) Junos
8 27 (18.88%) VPN
9 26 (18.18%) Ethernet VPN
9 26 (18.18%) VXLAN
10 24 (16.78%) Cisco ISE
11 21 (14.69%) SNMP
12 20 (13.99%) Network Security
13 15 (10.49%) VLAN
14 14 (9.79%) SD-WAN
15 13 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
15 13 (9.09%) TCP/IP
16 10 (6.99%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.20%) SQL Server
1 6 (4.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.80%) JIRA
2 3 (2.10%) Git
2 3 (2.10%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.40%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.90%) Finance
3 7 (4.90%) Law
4 6 (4.20%) Legal
5 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.80%) Military
5 4 (2.80%) Retail
6 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Aviation
7 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (34.97%) Network Engineer
2 15 (10.49%) Consultant
3 14 (9.79%) Firewall Specialist
3 14 (9.79%) Management Consultant
3 14 (9.79%) Network Specialist
3 14 (9.79%) Senior
4 13 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (6.29%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (5.59%) Analyst
6 8 (5.59%) Architect
7 7 (4.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) DBA
8 6 (4.20%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 6 (4.20%) Server Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) SQL DBA
9 5 (3.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Administrator
9 5 (3.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.18%) 802.1X
2 24 (16.78%) REST
3 5 (3.50%) LDAP
3 5 (3.50%) SAML
4 4 (2.80%) JSON
5 2 (1.40%) Middleware
6 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (25.17%) Clustering
2 35 (24.48%) Data Centre
3 29 (20.28%) PKI
4 7 (4.90%) Replication
4 7 (4.90%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.50%) CMDB
6 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.40%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.40%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.70%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.70%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 68 (47.55%) Windows
2 33 (23.08%) Linux
3 18 (12.59%) AIX
4 17 (11.89%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.40%) Unix
6 2 (1.40%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.70%) VMS
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (25.17%) High Availability
2 34 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (22.38%) ITIL
3 32 (22.38%) Observability
4 27 (18.88%) Load Balancing
5 24 (16.78%) Identity Access Management
6 20 (13.99%) Network Monitoring
7 18 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (12.59%) ITSM
8 17 (11.89%) Change Management
8 17 (11.89%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (11.19%) Agile
10 15 (10.49%) Dashboard Development
10 15 (10.49%) Service Management
11 14 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (9.79%) Project Delivery
12 12 (8.39%) Capacity Planning
13 10 (6.99%) Migration
14 9 (6.29%) Availability Management
15 8 (5.59%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.57%) PowerShell
2 28 (19.58%) Python
3 21 (14.69%) SQL
4 17 (11.89%) Search Processing Language
5 5 (3.50%) Bash
6 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (55.24%) Security Cleared
2 38 (26.57%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (24.48%) SC Cleared
4 30 (20.98%) DV Cleared
5 16 (11.19%) CCNP
6 11 (7.69%) CCNA
6 11 (7.69%) JNCIS
7 8 (5.59%) JNCIA
8 7 (4.90%) JNCIP
9 5 (3.50%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.10%) CCIE
11 3 (2.10%) Degree
11 3 (2.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.40%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.40%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.40%) OCA
12 2 (1.40%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.10%) NCSC
1 3 (2.10%) QA
2 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) GRC
3 1 (0.70%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.70%) NIST
3 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (20.28%) Active Directory
2 23 (16.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 12 (8.39%) VMware NSX
5 11 (7.69%) vSphere
6 5 (3.50%) Firmware
7 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.70%) KVM
8 1 (0.70%) NFS
8 1 (0.70%) RHEV
8 1 (0.70%) SRDF
8 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 35 (24.48%) Nagios
2 26 (18.18%) FortiGate
3 20 (13.99%) Ansible
4 19 (13.29%) ZABBIX
5 18 (12.59%) Netcool
6 17 (11.89%) Tivoli
7 16 (11.19%) Terraform
8 15 (10.49%) OpenView
8 15 (10.49%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 8 (5.59%) Cisco Prime
9 8 (5.59%) vCenter Server
10 7 (4.90%) SCCM
11 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (4.20%) vRealize
12 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (3.50%) VxRail
13 4 (2.80%) Pingdom
14 3 (2.10%) WSUS
15 2 (1.40%) Nmap
Vendors
1 85 (59.44%) Cisco
2 49 (34.27%) Splunk
3 42 (29.37%) Juniper
4 34 (23.78%) F5
5 25 (17.48%) VMware
6 24 (16.78%) Palo Alto
7 23 (16.08%) Extreme Networks
8 22 (15.38%) HP
8 22 (15.38%) IBM
9 21 (14.69%) BMC
10 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
11 14 (9.79%) Fortinet
12 13 (9.09%) ServiceNow
13 11 (7.69%) CheckPoint
14 10 (6.99%) Veeam
15 9 (6.29%) Aruba
16 8 (5.59%) AppDynamics
16 8 (5.59%) Commvault
16 8 (5.59%) Dell
16 8 (5.59%) Meraki