SolarWinds Job Trends in the Thames Valley

SolarWinds
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 186 165
Rank change year-on-year +8 -21 +78
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 1 8 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.026% 0.20% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.069% 0.60% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - - £41,250
25th Percentile £31,875 - £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £56,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.73% +17.89% -21.81%
75th Percentile £35,625 - £48,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £53,125 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.19% +10.53% -8.65%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,458 1,335 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.17% 33.76% 44.36%
Number of salaries quoted 609 634 1,121
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £51,300
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.53% -2.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,438 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,250
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SolarWinds
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SolarWinds.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Oxfordshire +26 1 £33,750 - 2
SolarWinds
South East

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) RHCSA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware