SolarWinds Job Trends in the South East

SolarWinds
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 31 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
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 289 244
Rank change year-on-year +58 -45 +119
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 45 18 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.43% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 1.36% 0.53% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 29 12 20
10th Percentile £30,950 £38,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -8.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,688 £54,063
90th Percentile £62,000 £58,750 £67,351
England median annual salary £54,068 £52,500 £50,886
% change year-on-year +2.99% +3.17% +11.89%

All Vendors
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,318 3,408 3,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.99% 36.70% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,829 1,843 2,423
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,061 £81,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in the South East

SolarWinds
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SolarWinds in the South East

SolarWinds
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Kent +8 21 £52,500 +10.53% 1
Hampshire +55 20 £52,625 +16.94% 4
Thames Valley +9 2 £33,750 -39.73% 10
Surrey +8 2 £80,000 +33.33%
Oxfordshire +22 1 £33,750 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 3
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) IIS
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.89%) AWS
2 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Azure
4 1 (2.22%) GCP
4 1 (2.22%) IaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (35.56%) Firewall
2 15 (33.33%) DHCP
2 15 (33.33%) DNS
3 13 (28.89%) SAN
4 11 (24.44%) Cisco Firepower
4 11 (24.44%) Cisco ISE
5 10 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
5 10 (22.22%) Junos
6 9 (20.00%) NX-OS
7 5 (11.11%) VLAN
8 4 (8.89%) VPN
9 3 (6.67%) IPv4
9 3 (6.67%) Network Security
9 3 (6.67%) TCP/IP
9 3 (6.67%) WAN
10 2 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (4.44%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (4.44%) IPv6
10 2 (4.44%) LAN
11 1 (2.22%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
General
1 24 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Advertising
3 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Electronics
3 1 (2.22%) Retail
3 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Manager
4 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Support
4 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Support Manager
4 8 (17.78%) Support Manager
5 5 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (6.67%) Junior
7 2 (4.44%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Design Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Network Design Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Design Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Network Design Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (2.22%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) PKI
2 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.22%) CCTV
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.22%) FMCG
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (60.00%) Windows
2 19 (42.22%) Windows Server
3 12 (26.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 12 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (17.78%) Windows 10
5 4 (8.89%) Unix
6 3 (6.67%) AIX
7 2 (4.44%) Linux
8 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) ITSM
2 20 (44.44%) Security Operations
3 18 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (26.67%) Change Management
6 12 (26.67%) DevOps
6 12 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (26.67%) Service Management
7 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 8 (17.78%) Emotional Intelligence
8 8 (17.78%) Patch Management
8 8 (17.78%) Software Deployment
9 4 (8.89%) High Availability
10 3 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
10 3 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
10 3 (6.67%) Process Improvement
10 3 (6.67%) Service Delivery
11 2 (4.44%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) SQL
2 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.22%) Bash
3 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) DV Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) CCNP
4 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.44%) CCNA
5 2 (4.44%) JNCIA
5 2 (4.44%) JNCIS
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) MCSE
6 1 (2.22%) RHCE
6 1 (2.22%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.22%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 19 (42.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (22.22%) VMware NSX
4 9 (20.00%) Firmware
5 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.44%) KVM
6 2 (4.44%) RHEV
6 2 (4.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 26 (57.78%) SCCM
1 26 (57.78%) vCenter Server
2 13 (28.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (11.11%) SCOM
4 3 (6.67%) Netcool
5 2 (4.44%) FortiGate
5 2 (4.44%) Nagios
5 2 (4.44%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.22%) AirWatch
6 1 (2.22%) Ansible
6 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.22%) Terraform
6 1 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (42.22%) VMware
2 16 (35.56%) Cisco
3 13 (28.89%) Juniper
3 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
3 13 (28.89%) NetApp
3 13 (28.89%) Veeam
4 12 (26.67%) 3PAR
5 11 (24.44%) ServiceNow
6 9 (20.00%) Broadcom
7 4 (8.89%) F5
7 4 (8.89%) McAfee
8 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
8 3 (6.67%) IBM
8 3 (6.67%) Oracle
8 3 (6.67%) Snow
9 2 (4.44%) Citrix
9 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.22%) Commvault
10 1 (2.22%) SAP
10 1 (2.22%) Veritas