SolarWinds Job Trends in the North East

SolarWinds
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 23 May 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
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 9 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.42% - 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 1.91% - 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +86.67%
75th Percentile - - £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £56,900 £52,443 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.50% -8.79% +21.05%

All Vendors
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 472 240 729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.96% 41.59% 38.51%
Number of salaries quoted 250 130 596
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,087 £25,125
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,188 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,593 £43,036
Median % change year-on-year +5.65% -1.03% -9.40%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,025 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in the North East

SolarWinds
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SolarWinds.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the North East region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Durham - 8 - - 1
Northumberland - 1 £39,000 - 1
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 8 (88.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) LAN
1 9 (100.00%) WAN
2 8 (88.89%) BGP
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco Wireless
2 8 (88.89%) EIGRP
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 8 (88.89%) Network Security
2 8 (88.89%) OSPF
2 8 (88.89%) SNMP
2 8 (88.89%) VLAN
2 8 (88.89%) VPN
2 8 (88.89%) WAAS
2 8 (88.89%) Wireless
2 8 (88.89%) Wireless Security
General
1 8 (88.89%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Network Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Senior
1 8 (88.89%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Analytical Thinking
1 8 (88.89%) Collaborative Working
1 8 (88.89%) Computer Science
1 8 (88.89%) Kalman Filter
1 8 (88.89%) Load Balancing
1 8 (88.89%) Project Delivery
1 8 (88.89%) Root Cause Analysis
1 8 (88.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 8 (88.89%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) ITSM
2 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) CCIE
1 8 (88.89%) CCNP
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (88.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) PMO
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Blue Coat
1 8 (88.89%) CheckPoint
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
1 8 (88.89%) F5
1 8 (88.89%) Infoblox
1 8 (88.89%) Motorola
1 8 (88.89%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft