SolarWinds Job Trends in Kent

SolarWinds
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring knowledge or experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SolarWinds over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within SolarWinds.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 76 57
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 +38
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 21 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 2.03% 0.14% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 6.23% 0.50% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -8.65%

All Vendors
Kent

SolarWinds falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 337 199 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 32.66% 27.60% 44.35%
Number of salaries quoted 176 88 210
10th Percentile £27,500 £23,750 £21,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,817 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.21% +6.98% +5.56%
75th Percentile £50,000 £67,813 £60,000
90th Percentile £60,125 £87,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in Kent

SolarWinds
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing SolarWinds.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Kent region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sevenoaks - 8 £52,500 -
SolarWinds
South East

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) DHCP
1 13 (61.90%) DNS
2 12 (57.14%) SAN
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.76%) DMZ
3 1 (4.76%) HSRP
3 1 (4.76%) Internet
3 1 (4.76%) IPv4
3 1 (4.76%) Miracast
3 1 (4.76%) MPLS
3 1 (4.76%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) VRRP
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wireless
3 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
General
1 20 (95.24%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Manager
2 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Support
2 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 8 (38.10%) Support Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) CCTV
1 1 (4.76%) FMCG
1 1 (4.76%) PKI
1 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 12 (57.14%) Windows Server 2012
2 12 (57.14%) Windows Server 2019
3 8 (38.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Security Operations
2 13 (61.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (57.14%) DevOps
3 12 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (38.10%) Emotional Intelligence
4 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 8 (38.10%) ITSM
4 8 (38.10%) Patch Management
4 8 (38.10%) Software Deployment
5 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.76%) Facial Recognition
5 1 (4.76%) Observability
5 1 (4.76%) Project Management
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) CCNP
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 12 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (95.24%) SCCM
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (57.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) NetApp
2 12 (57.14%) 3PAR
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (57.14%) Veeam
2 12 (57.14%) VMware
3 8 (38.10%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Meraki
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk