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 6 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
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 286 245
Rank change year-on-year +49 -41 +134
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 35 19 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.18% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 1.04% 0.51% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 28
10th Percentile £27,713 £38,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £47,125 £42,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,125 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +10.53% -8.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £62,000 £64,375 £63,742
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,886
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.17% +1.77%

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 3,356 3,744 3,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.20% 35.62% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,890 1,984 2,428
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £31,906 £40,000 £37,875
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 £68,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,303 £82,500 £75,000
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 6 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 6 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
Hampshire +51 17 £55,000 +22.22% 14
Kent +11 15 £52,500 +10.53% 6
Surrey +11 2 £80,000 +33.33%
Oxfordshire +24 1 £33,750 - 1
Thames Valley +15 1 £33,750 -39.73% 5
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 (2.86%) IIS
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Azure
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) IaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) Firewall
2 13 (37.14%) DHCP
2 13 (37.14%) DNS
3 11 (31.43%) Cisco Firepower
3 11 (31.43%) Cisco ISE
3 11 (31.43%) SAN
4 10 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
4 10 (28.57%) Junos
5 9 (25.71%) NX-OS
6 5 (14.29%) VLAN
7 4 (11.43%) VPN
8 3 (8.57%) IPv4
8 3 (8.57%) Network Security
8 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
8 3 (8.57%) WAN
9 2 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (5.71%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (5.71%) IPv6
9 2 (5.71%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.86%) Advertising
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (2.86%) Electronics
2 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Support Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Support Manager
5 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Junior
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Design Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Network Design Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Network Design Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Middleware
2 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) PKI
2 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) CCTV
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.86%) FMCG
3 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (51.43%) Windows
2 14 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 10 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (11.43%) Unix
4 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
5 3 (8.57%) AIX
6 2 (5.71%) Linux
7 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) ITSM
2 14 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 12 (34.29%) Change Management
3 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (28.57%) DevOps
4 10 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (28.57%) Service Management
5 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 4 (11.43%) Emotional Intelligence
6 4 (11.43%) High Availability
6 4 (11.43%) Patch Management
6 4 (11.43%) Software Deployment
7 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
7 3 (8.57%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
8 2 (5.71%) Decision-Making
8 2 (5.71%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 5 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (2.86%) Bash
2 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) DV Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) CCNP
4 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.71%) CCNA
5 2 (5.71%) JNCIA
5 2 (5.71%) JNCIS
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.86%) MCSE
6 1 (2.86%) RHCE
6 1 (2.86%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.86%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 14 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 9 (25.71%) Firmware
4 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.71%) KVM
5 2 (5.71%) RHEV
5 2 (5.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (60.00%) vCenter Server
2 17 (48.57%) SCCM
3 11 (31.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (8.57%) Netcool
5 2 (5.71%) FortiGate
5 2 (5.71%) Nagios
5 2 (5.71%) Proxmox
5 2 (5.71%) SCOM
6 1 (2.86%) AirWatch
6 1 (2.86%) Ansible
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.86%) Terraform
6 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Cisco
2 15 (42.86%) VMware
3 13 (37.14%) Juniper
4 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
4 11 (31.43%) NetApp
4 11 (31.43%) Veeam
5 10 (28.57%) 3PAR
6 9 (25.71%) Broadcom
7 7 (20.00%) ServiceNow
8 4 (11.43%) F5
9 3 (8.57%) Fortinet
9 3 (8.57%) IBM
9 3 (8.57%) Oracle
9 3 (8.57%) Snow
10 2 (5.71%) Citrix
10 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
11 1 (2.86%) Commvault
11 1 (2.86%) McAfee
11 1 (2.86%) Mitel
11 1 (2.86%) Veritas