SolarWinds Job Trends in the Midlands

SolarWinds
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 13 January 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
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 211 185
Rank change year-on-year +19 -26 +58
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 22 29 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.28% 0.46% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.11% 1.19% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12 26 26
10th Percentile £49,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £41,563 £37,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,784 £46,250 £45,837
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% +0.90% +10.45%
75th Percentile £60,625 £52,688 £67,000
90th Percentile £67,000 £54,875 £70,000
England median annual salary £53,125 £52,500 £50,600
% change year-on-year +1.19% +3.75% +12.44%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,986 2,442 2,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.52% 38.35% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 1,148 1,952
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,995 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,309 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +5.91% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £52,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -4.35%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SolarWinds
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SolarWinds.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SolarWinds in the Midlands

SolarWinds
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 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 Midlands +16 13 £51,500 +5.64% 5
East Midlands -7 9 £70,000 +75.00% 3
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (36.36%) SharePoint
1 8 (36.36%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 20 (90.91%) Azure
2 17 (77.27%) AWS
3 13 (59.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (36.36%) GCP
4 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) Datadog
6 4 (18.18%) GitHub
6 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) WAN
2 9 (40.91%) SD-WAN
3 8 (36.36%) Skype
3 8 (36.36%) VLAN
4 5 (22.73%) DHCP
4 5 (22.73%) DNS
4 5 (22.73%) Firewall
5 4 (18.18%) Network Security
6 3 (13.64%) BGP
6 3 (13.64%) IPsec
6 3 (13.64%) OSPF
6 3 (13.64%) VPN
6 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (13.64%) Wireshark
7 2 (9.09%) LAN
8 1 (4.55%) MPLS
8 1 (4.55%) PSTN
8 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
8 1 (4.55%) VoIP
8 1 (4.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) DTS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (36.36%) Manufacturing
1 8 (36.36%) Retail
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Support
2 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Network Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior VoIP Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) CMDB
1 8 (36.36%) Onboarding
1 8 (36.36%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Windows
1 8 (36.36%) Windows Server
1 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
2 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (36.36%) Customer Service
3 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Management
3 8 (36.36%) Problem Management
3 8 (36.36%) Server Management
4 7 (31.82%) DevOps
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (22.73%) ITIL
5 5 (22.73%) ITSM
5 5 (22.73%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) RBAC
6 4 (18.18%) Supplier Management
7 3 (13.64%) Change Control
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.64%) Runbook
7 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (18.18%) Bicep
3 3 (13.64%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) CCNP
1 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) CCNA
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 8 (36.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (13.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Nagios
2 8 (36.36%) ZABBIX
3 7 (31.82%) Terraform
4 3 (13.64%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (50.00%) VMware
3 10 (45.45%) Cisco
4 8 (36.36%) BMC
4 8 (36.36%) Citrix
4 8 (36.36%) Darktrace
4 8 (36.36%) Google
4 8 (36.36%) Proofpoint
4 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
4 8 (36.36%) Tanium
4 8 (36.36%) Trend Micro
4 8 (36.36%) Zscaler
5 4 (18.18%) Avaya
5 4 (18.18%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (18.18%) Meraki
6 3 (13.64%) Dell
6 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
7 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
8 1 (4.55%) Aruba