SolarWinds Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 449 588
Rank change year-on-year +23 +139 -115
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 156 77 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.98% 0.64% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 77 70 116
10th Percentile £34,600 £38,750 £32,625
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,024
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.04% +17.70%
75th Percentile £55,627 £55,438 £73,125
90th Percentile £62,000 £57,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,137 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.29% -13.11% +26.32%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,959 12,009 24,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.93% 41.08% 34.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,383 6,600 17,170
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £25,760
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,828
Median % change year-on-year - +9.10% -8.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £74,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -13.04%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SolarWinds job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SolarWinds.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SolarWinds

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SolarWinds in the UK excluding London

SolarWinds
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South West -28 48 £37,500 -33.18% 4
South East +5 45 £52,500 +23.53% 7
Midlands -23 24 £54,068 +8.38% 1
West Midlands -38 21 £54,068 +8.26%
North of England -19 18 £40,000 -25.58% 9
East of England -7 12 £59,330 +41.26%
North East - 9 £39,000 - 4
North West +13 8 £40,000 -5.88% 3
Wales -28 7 £34,000 -26.67%
East Midlands -20 3 £35,000 -22.22% 1
Scotland -4 2 £72,500 +61.11% 3
Yorkshire -40 1 - - 2
SolarWinds
UK

SolarWinds
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 61 (39.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.56%) CMS
2 4 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.56%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 95 (60.90%) Azure
2 72 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (23.72%) AWS
4 15 (9.62%) Azure Sentinel
4 15 (9.62%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.49%) PaaS
5 7 (4.49%) SaaS
6 5 (3.21%) IaaS
7 4 (2.56%) Datadog
8 3 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.92%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.28%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.28%) GitHub
9 2 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (44.87%) DNS
2 66 (42.31%) DHCP
3 35 (22.44%) VLAN
3 35 (22.44%) WAN
4 30 (19.23%) Firewall
5 21 (13.46%) SD-WAN
6 17 (10.90%) VPN
7 15 (9.62%) BGP
7 15 (9.62%) OSPF
7 15 (9.62%) SNMP
8 14 (8.97%) LAN
8 14 (8.97%) Wireless
9 13 (8.33%) Network Security
10 12 (7.69%) TCP/IP
11 11 (7.05%) EIGRP
12 10 (6.41%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (5.13%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (5.13%) Cisco Wireless
13 8 (5.13%) WAAS
13 8 (5.13%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.28%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.64%) JIRA
General
1 99 (63.46%) Social Skills
2 72 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (6.41%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (5.77%) Retail
5 6 (3.85%) Finance
6 5 (3.21%) Legal
6 5 (3.21%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.56%) Banking
7 4 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.92%) Law
9 2 (1.28%) Automotive
9 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 48 (30.77%) Systems Engineer
2 31 (19.87%) Network Engineer
3 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure Manager
3 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure Support
3 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 19 (12.18%) Support Manager
4 13 (8.33%) Senior
5 12 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
5 12 (7.69%) Analyst
6 10 (6.41%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (5.77%) Support Analyst
8 8 (5.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 8 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) IT Support
10 6 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.21%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (3.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 5 (3.21%) Consultant
11 5 (3.21%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.92%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.28%) gRPC
2 2 (1.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.64%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (30.77%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (6.41%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.49%) PKI
5 5 (3.21%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.56%) Wiki
7 3 (1.92%) iSeries
7 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.64%) CCTV
9 1 (0.64%) Clustering
9 1 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.64%) Replication
9 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 112 (71.79%) Windows
2 76 (48.72%) Windows Server
3 60 (38.46%) Linux
4 56 (35.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (14.74%) Windows 10
6 7 (4.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.21%) VMS
7 5 (3.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (2.56%) Android
9 2 (1.28%) AIX
10 1 (0.64%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (51.28%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (37.18%) Kalman Filter
3 56 (35.90%) Customer Service
4 51 (32.69%) Customer Experience
4 51 (32.69%) ITSM
5 50 (32.05%) Migration
6 48 (30.77%) Email Filtering
6 48 (30.77%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 48 (30.77%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 48 (30.77%) Web Filtering
7 26 (16.67%) Security Operations
8 25 (16.03%) Patch Management
9 24 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (14.74%) Service Management
11 22 (14.10%) Emotional Intelligence
11 22 (14.10%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 22 (14.10%) Network Monitoring
11 22 (14.10%) Software Deployment
12 21 (13.46%) ITIL
13 20 (12.82%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.90%) Python
2 16 (10.26%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.69%) SQL
4 4 (2.56%) Bash
4 4 (2.56%) Bicep
5 3 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (44.23%) Security Cleared
2 61 (39.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.33%) Degree
4 12 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.05%) CCNP
5 11 (7.05%) DV Cleared
6 10 (6.41%) CCIE
7 8 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (3.85%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.92%) CCNA
11 3 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.28%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.64%) CEH
13 1 (0.64%) CISM
13 1 (0.64%) CISSP
13 1 (0.64%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (31.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 49 (31.41%) PCI DSS
2 15 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 8 (5.13%) PMO
4 7 (4.49%) QA
5 6 (3.85%) SLA
6 2 (1.28%) GDPR
6 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (52.56%) Active Directory
2 50 (32.05%) Hyper-V
3 48 (30.77%) Terminal Server
4 8 (5.13%) ProxySG
5 7 (4.49%) Firmware
5 7 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (4.49%) VMware NSX
6 5 (3.21%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.21%) vSphere
7 4 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.28%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 30 (19.23%) SCCM
2 19 (12.18%) vCenter Server
3 14 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.49%) Grafana
4 7 (4.49%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.49%) ZABBIX
5 5 (3.21%) Nagios
6 4 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (2.56%) SCOM
6 4 (2.56%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (2.56%) Terraform
7 3 (1.92%) Netcool
8 1 (0.64%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.64%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 83 (53.21%) Microsoft
2 65 (41.67%) VMware
3 53 (33.97%) Splunk
3 53 (33.97%) Veeam
4 48 (30.77%) Brocade
4 48 (30.77%) Nimble Storage
4 48 (30.77%) Tanium
5 38 (24.36%) Cisco
6 32 (20.51%) ServiceNow
7 15 (9.62%) Zscaler
8 14 (8.97%) Avaya
9 9 (5.77%) CheckPoint
9 9 (5.77%) F5
10 8 (5.13%) Blue Coat
10 8 (5.13%) Infoblox
10 8 (5.13%) Motorola
11 6 (3.85%) Broadcom
11 6 (3.85%) Juniper
12 5 (3.21%) 3PAR
13 4 (2.56%) NetApp