SolarWinds Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

SolarWinds
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 6 June 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
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 83 -
Rank change year-on-year -65 - -
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 5 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.19% 0.64% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.44% 1.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £477 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.95% +14.49%

All Vendors
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,144 536 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.58% 48.86% 47.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 325 487
10th Percentile £321 £246 £250
25th Percentile £413 £365 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -6.90% -3.85%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £585
90th Percentile £650 £622 £675
England median daily rate £505 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -1.94% - -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 18 55
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.39 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.60 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.12 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +101.23% +44.41% -32.76%
75th Percentile £57.25 £26.87 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £34.24 £41.88
England median hourly rate £33.99 £27.40 £23.80
% change year-on-year +24.03% +15.13% -39.82%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SolarWinds relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SolarWinds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SolarWinds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
West Yorkshire -35 3 - - 1
South Yorkshire - 2 £519 - 1
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
1 2 (40.00%) Datadog
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Replication
2 3 (60.00%) Clustering
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (40.00%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (40.00%) EMC VNX
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Database Security
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Key Management
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Network Design
4 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (40.00%) NCDA
3 2 (40.00%) NCIE
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) NFS
1 2 (40.00%) SRDF
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
1 2 (40.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (40.00%) EMC VPLEX
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) SnapMirror
1 2 (40.00%) SnapVault
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) RedGate
2 2 (40.00%) 3PAR
2 2 (40.00%) Brocade
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
2 2 (40.00%) Pure Storage
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam
2 2 (40.00%) VMware