SolarWinds Job Trends in London

SolarWinds
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 6 March 2026, 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
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 346 375
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 +184
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 67 73 112
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.40% 0.51% 0.52%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% 1.26% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 41 53 93
10th Percentile £51,250 £49,300 £39,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +19.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £94,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £54,068 £52,500 £51,750
% change year-on-year +2.99% +1.45% +15.00%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,381 5,809 8,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.51% 40.80% 39.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 3,253 6,466
10th Percentile £34,000 £40,062 £35,631
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,760
Median % change year-on-year - +6.45% -4.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in London

SolarWinds
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SolarWinds.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in London over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SolarWinds in London

SolarWinds
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the London region over the 6 months to 6 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London -13 3 £60,000 +22.45% 1
Central London +9 2 £78,750 -3.08%
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.49%) nginx
2 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (55.22%) Azure
2 22 (32.84%) AWS
3 14 (20.90%) SaaS
4 13 (19.40%) AWS Direct Connect
5 9 (13.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (10.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (7.46%) Nutanix
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (4.48%) Datadog
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.99%) GCP
11 1 (1.49%) IaaS
11 1 (1.49%) PaaS
11 1 (1.49%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 46 (68.66%) Firewall
1 46 (68.66%) WAN
2 40 (59.70%) SD-WAN
3 38 (56.72%) VPN
4 37 (55.22%) LAN
5 32 (47.76%) BGP
5 32 (47.76%) OSPF
6 24 (35.82%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (34.33%) Cisco ISE
8 18 (26.87%) Cisco Firepower
8 18 (26.87%) Wireless
9 15 (22.39%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (20.90%) MPLS
10 14 (20.90%) VXLAN
11 13 (19.40%) IPsec
11 13 (19.40%) Network Security
12 11 (16.42%) NX-OS
12 11 (16.42%) TCP/IP
12 11 (16.42%) WLAN
13 10 (14.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) MySQL
1 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 26 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 22 (32.84%) Finance
3 13 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.93%) Banking
5 7 (10.45%) Retail Banking
6 5 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (7.46%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.99%) Advertising
7 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.99%) Law
7 2 (2.99%) Marketing
8 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (65.67%) Network Engineer
2 17 (25.37%) Cisco Engineer
2 17 (25.37%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (17.91%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (16.42%) Firewall Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Lead
5 9 (13.43%) Network Operations Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Operations Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Senior
5 9 (13.43%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (11.94%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (11.94%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Administrator
7 7 (10.45%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (8.96%) Linux Administrator
8 6 (8.96%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Lead Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) 802.1X
2 5 (7.46%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.49%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (1.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (50.75%) Data Centre
2 14 (20.90%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.48%) PKI
5 3 (4.48%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Synthetic Data
6 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.49%) e-Health
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.49%) IoT
7 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.49%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.94%) Linux
2 6 (8.96%) Windows
3 5 (7.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.49%) CentOS
4 1 (1.49%) Rocky
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (29.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (28.36%) Network Monitoring
4 16 (23.88%) Network Segmentation
5 15 (22.39%) ITIL
5 15 (22.39%) Load Balancing
6 12 (17.91%) Kalman Filter
7 10 (14.93%) Runbook
7 10 (14.93%) Zero Trust
8 9 (13.43%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (13.43%) Cloud Security
9 8 (11.94%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (11.94%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 7 (10.45%) Computer Science
10 7 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (10.45%) Customer-Centricity
10 7 (10.45%) High Availability
10 7 (10.45%) Network Design
11 6 (8.96%) DevOps
11 6 (8.96%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.90%) Python
2 6 (8.96%) Bash
2 6 (8.96%) SQL
3 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (41.79%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (38.81%) CCNP
3 12 (17.91%) Azure Certification
3 12 (17.91%) Degree
4 10 (14.93%) CCNA
5 6 (8.96%) CCIE
5 6 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (7.46%) RHCSA
7 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.99%) CCSA
7 2 (2.99%) CCSE
7 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.49%) CISM
8 1 (1.49%) CISSP
8 1 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (14.93%) NIST
2 5 (7.46%) GDPR
3 4 (5.97%) SLA
4 3 (4.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.99%) PMO
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.97%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.48%) vSphere
5 2 (2.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Nagios
2 8 (11.94%) Ansible
3 7 (10.45%) Check_MK
4 5 (7.46%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.99%) Control-M
6 2 (2.99%) PowerCLI
6 2 (2.99%) Terraform
7 1 (1.49%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (1.49%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.49%) Grafana
7 1 (1.49%) Nessus
7 1 (1.49%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.49%) SCOM
7 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (79.10%) Cisco
2 25 (37.31%) Meraki
3 21 (31.34%) Palo Alto
4 20 (29.85%) CheckPoint
5 18 (26.87%) Microsoft
6 17 (25.37%) VMware
7 16 (23.88%) Fortinet
8 15 (22.39%) ServiceNow
9 14 (20.90%) Dynatrace
10 8 (11.94%) Arista
11 7 (10.45%) Splunk
12 6 (8.96%) Red Hat
12 6 (8.96%) Veeam
13 5 (7.46%) Infoblox
14 4 (5.97%) Adobe
14 4 (5.97%) ExaGrid
15 3 (4.48%) F5
15 3 (4.48%) ForeScout
15 3 (4.48%) SevOne
16 2 (2.99%) Aruba