SolarWinds Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SolarWinds
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 260 306 441
Rank change year-on-year +46 +135 +97
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 44 39 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.97% 0.60% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 19
10th Percentile £405 £306 £353
25th Percentile £425 £420 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £551 £552 £581
90th Percentile £579 £575 £658
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £456
% change year-on-year +1.94% +12.88% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £33.98 -
25th Percentile - £38.06 £51.37
Median hourly rate - £47.75 £55.32
Median % change year-on-year - -13.68% +19.61%
75th Percentile - £59.06 £59.28
90th Percentile - £64.13 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.15 £62.62
% change year-on-year - -55.04% +40.71%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

SolarWinds
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SolarWinds trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options citing SolarWinds.

SolarWinds hourly rate 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 2 (4.55%) IIS
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) nginx
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.64%) AWS
1 6 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.55%) GCP
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.55%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.27%) Cloudflare
4 1 (2.27%) Datadog
4 1 (2.27%) IaaS
4 1 (2.27%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.27%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.27%) Rubrik
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (50.00%) Firewall
2 17 (38.64%) VPN
3 14 (31.82%) MPLS
4 13 (29.55%) BGP
4 13 (29.55%) OSPF
5 9 (20.45%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (18.18%) Broadband
6 8 (18.18%) IPv6
6 8 (18.18%) Multicast
7 6 (13.64%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (13.64%) IPsec
7 6 (13.64%) Network Security
8 5 (11.36%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (11.36%) GPON
8 5 (11.36%) LAN
8 5 (11.36%) WAN
9 4 (9.09%) DHCP
9 4 (9.09%) DNS
9 4 (9.09%) EIGRP
9 4 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Finance
2 4 (9.09%) Law
2 4 (9.09%) Legal
3 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Back Office
4 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (56.82%) Network Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) Principal Engineer
3 11 (25.00%) Principal Network Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Network Security Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Security Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Implementation Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Principal Security Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Architect
6 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Core Network Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.27%) Node.js
1 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) CSOC
2 5 (11.36%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.09%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Clustering
5 1 (2.27%) CMDB
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.27%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.27%) SCADA
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Windows
2 13 (29.55%) Linux
3 7 (15.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (13.64%) VMS
5 4 (9.09%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.27%) CentOS
6 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Network Monitoring
2 15 (34.09%) ITIL
3 13 (29.55%) Migration
4 7 (15.91%) Project Delivery
4 7 (15.91%) SIEM
5 6 (13.64%) Event Correlation
6 5 (11.36%) Change Management
6 5 (11.36%) Problem Management
7 4 (9.09%) Security Management
8 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (6.82%) Low Latency
8 3 (6.82%) Network Management
8 3 (6.82%) Network Segmentation
8 3 (6.82%) Performance Metrics
9 2 (4.55%) Agile
9 2 (4.55%) CI/CD
9 2 (4.55%) Configuration Management
9 2 (4.55%) DevOps
9 2 (4.55%) Incident Management
9 2 (4.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) PowerShell
1 6 (13.64%) Python
2 1 (2.27%) Bash
2 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (29.55%) SC Cleared
2 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) CCIE
4 5 (11.36%) CCIE Service Provider
4 5 (11.36%) CCNP
5 3 (6.82%) CCNA
5 3 (6.82%) Degree
6 1 (2.27%) CCSA
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.27%) MCSA
6 1 (2.27%) MCSE
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.27%) OCA
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.27%) PMO
1 1 (2.27%) QA
1 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) ZABBIX
2 8 (18.18%) Ansible
3 5 (11.36%) Cisco Prime
3 5 (11.36%) Nagios
4 4 (9.09%) Terraform
5 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.27%) Netcool
5 1 (2.27%) OfficeScan
5 1 (2.27%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.27%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (75.00%) Cisco
2 14 (31.82%) Palo Alto
3 13 (29.55%) Fortinet
4 11 (25.00%) VMware
5 8 (18.18%) F5
6 7 (15.91%) Red Hat
7 6 (13.64%) CheckPoint
7 6 (13.64%) Nokia
7 6 (13.64%) ServiceNow
7 6 (13.64%) Splunk
8 5 (11.36%) Aruba
9 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
10 3 (6.82%) Arista
11 2 (4.55%) Dell
11 2 (4.55%) Foundry
11 2 (4.55%) Oracle
12 1 (2.27%) HP
12 1 (2.27%) IBM
12 1 (2.27%) NetApp
12 1 (2.27%) Symantec