SolarWinds Contracts in Wales

SolarWinds
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 10 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.41% - 1.89%
As % of the Vendors category 7.87% - 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 12
10th Percentile £185 - -
25th Percentile £235 - £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 - £205
Median % change year-on-year - - -54.65%
75th Percentile £448 - £463
90th Percentile £470 - £538
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £456
% change year-on-year +1.94% +12.88% -1.35%

All Vendors
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 127 154 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 43.34% 38.99% 45.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 108 214
10th Percentile £185 £207 £189
25th Percentile £250 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £550
90th Percentile £578 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 6
10th Percentile £14.11 £11.02 £14.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.56 £16.13
Median hourly rate £21.76 £39.50 £24.53
Median % change year-on-year -44.92% +61.03% +9.02%
75th Percentile £32.25 £86.45 £44.31
90th Percentile £41.25 £87.80 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in Wales

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in Wales.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in Wales

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in Wales

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in Wales

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South Wales - 7 £358 - 1
West Wales - 3 £190 -
SolarWinds
UK

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) BGP
1 7 (70.00%) OSPF
2 6 (60.00%) Wireless
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (50.00%) IPsec
3 5 (50.00%) Network Security
4 4 (40.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (30.00%) 802.11
5 3 (30.00%) Firewall
5 3 (30.00%) HSRP
6 2 (20.00%) VPN
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (10.00%) DHCP
7 1 (10.00%) DNS
7 1 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (10.00%) VLAN
7 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
7 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Network Design
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Statistics
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (60.00%) CCNP
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (50.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) CCNA
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Cacti
2 2 (20.00%) Autotask
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) ConnectWise
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) Meraki
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk