SolarWinds Contracts with Work from Home Options

SolarWinds
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SolarWinds.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 441 521
Rank change year-on-year +137 +80 -71
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 40 33 98
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 0.30% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 67
10th Percentile £306 £333 £370
25th Percentile £420 £375 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.01% +32.00%
75th Percentile £552 £569 £553
90th Percentile £575 £625 £635
UK median daily rate £515 £440 £475
% change year-on-year +17.07% -7.37% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £33.98 - £21.10
25th Percentile £38.06 £51.37 £35.50
Median hourly rate £47.75 £55.32 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +19.61% -
75th Percentile £59.06 £59.28 £48.62
90th Percentile £64.13 - £48.70
UK median hourly rate £28.15 £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year -55.04% +40.71% +78.00%

All Vendors
Work from Home

SolarWinds is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,454 10,996 17,428
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.39% 43.06% 39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,018 7,389 11,881
10th Percentile £325 £330 £345
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.89% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 259 255
10th Percentile £13.99 £17.50 £13.13
25th Percentile £16.78 £31.09 £18.75
Median hourly rate £30.56 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.41% +54.29% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.75 £52.57
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.40
% change year-on-year -47.88% +98.60% -2.73%

SolarWinds
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SolarWinds trend for jobs with a WFH option

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SolarWinds.

SolarWinds daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

SolarWinds daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SolarWinds.

SolarWinds hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

SolarWinds hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.50%) IaaS
4 3 (7.50%) PaaS
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) Mimecast
5 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (65.00%) Firewall
2 14 (35.00%) Cisco ISE
3 13 (32.50%) BGP
4 12 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (27.50%) OSPF
6 10 (25.00%) IPsec
7 9 (22.50%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (22.50%) EIGRP
7 9 (22.50%) SNMP
8 8 (20.00%) NetScaler
8 8 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (17.50%) HSRP
10 6 (15.00%) DNS
10 6 (15.00%) Spanning Tree
10 6 (15.00%) WAN
11 5 (12.50%) DHCP
11 5 (12.50%) SD-WAN
11 5 (12.50%) VPN
12 4 (10.00%) LAN
12 4 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
1 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Integration Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Technology Integration Manager
7 1 (2.50%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Jinja
2 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.00%) Clustering
2 2 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Solaris
3 2 (5.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.00%) Unix
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) ITIL
2 9 (22.50%) ITSM
2 9 (22.50%) Network Management
3 7 (17.50%) Change Management
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (15.00%) DevOps
5 4 (10.00%) High Availability
5 4 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (10.00%) Low Latency
5 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (7.50%) Load Balancing
6 3 (7.50%) Migration
6 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
6 3 (7.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (7.50%) Service Management
7 2 (5.00%) Runbook
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (5.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) Python
2 7 (17.50%) Perl
3 6 (15.00%) Tcl
4 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.00%) Bash
6 3 (7.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (35.00%) CCNP
3 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (17.50%) CCNA
5 5 (12.50%) CCIE
6 3 (7.50%) Degree
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.50%) MCSA
8 1 (2.50%) MCSE
8 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Firmware
2 4 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.50%) Terminal Server
5 1 (2.50%) vSphere
5 1 (2.50%) XenApp
5 1 (2.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (47.50%) Ansible
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (5.00%) FortiGate
4 2 (5.00%) Nagios
4 2 (5.00%) OpenView
4 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.00%) Puppet
4 2 (5.00%) vRealize
4 2 (5.00%) VxRail
4 2 (5.00%) WSUS
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.50%) Nessus
5 1 (2.50%) SCCM
5 1 (2.50%) SCOM
5 1 (2.50%) SELinux
5 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (72.50%) Cisco
2 11 (27.50%) Fortinet
2 11 (27.50%) VMware
3 10 (25.00%) Citrix
3 10 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 9 (22.50%) F5
5 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (12.50%) CheckPoint
7 3 (7.50%) Dell
7 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
8 2 (5.00%) AlienVault
8 2 (5.00%) CA
8 2 (5.00%) LogRhythm
8 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (2.50%) HP
9 1 (2.50%) Juniper
9 1 (2.50%) Splunk
9 1 (2.50%) Symantec
9 1 (2.50%) Veritas