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 14 January 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 421 406
Rank change year-on-year +128 -15 +78
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 232 145 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.40% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% 1.14% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 81 97 113
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,057 £63,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £74,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,743
% change year-on-year - +3.46% +10.34%

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 12,482 12,772 13,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.43% 35.55% 38.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,889 6,088 10,437
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £50,000 £47,657
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% +4.92% -4.69%
75th Percentile £61,041 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £51,000 £57,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +42 97 £55,000 +22.22%
South East +66 47 £52,500 +10.53% 13
Midlands +16 23 £54,068 +16.90% 6
Scotland +25 21 £74,500 +65.56% 1
West Midlands +14 14 £52,784 +8.27% 4
Wales +21 13 £55,000 +61.76% 3
East of England +22 12 £34,000 -45.60% 1
North of England +2 12 £40,000 -5.88% 2
East Midlands -6 9 £70,000 +75.00% 2
North West +19 8 £40,000 -15.79% 2
Northern Ireland - 7 £37,500 -
North East - 4 - -
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
1 114 (49.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.45%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (2.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 160 (68.97%) Azure
2 122 (52.59%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (16.38%) AWS
4 14 (6.03%) Azure Sentinel
4 14 (6.03%) GCP
5 7 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (2.16%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.72%) Datadog
7 4 (1.72%) GitHub
7 4 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.29%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.29%) IaaS
8 3 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.86%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 132 (56.90%) DNS
2 126 (54.31%) DHCP
3 57 (24.57%) Firewall
4 49 (21.12%) WAN
5 36 (15.52%) LAN
6 31 (13.36%) Wireless
7 27 (11.64%) SD-WAN
8 25 (10.78%) VLAN
8 25 (10.78%) Wireshark
9 23 (9.91%) Network Security
10 19 (8.19%) VPN
11 15 (6.47%) SAN
12 14 (6.03%) OSPF
13 13 (5.60%) BGP
13 13 (5.60%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (5.17%) Cisco Firepower
15 10 (4.31%) Cisco IOS
15 10 (4.31%) Junos
16 9 (3.88%) EIGRP
16 9 (3.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (41.38%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.45%) DTS
3 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.72%) JIRA
2 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
General
1 169 (72.84%) Social Skills
2 115 (49.57%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (7.33%) Finance
3 17 (7.33%) Telecoms
4 11 (4.74%) Retail
5 8 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.59%) Law
7 2 (0.86%) Police
7 2 (0.86%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.43%) Advertising
8 1 (0.43%) Electronics
8 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (41.38%) Systems Engineer
2 50 (21.55%) Network Engineer
3 31 (13.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (7.33%) Infrastructure Support
5 14 (6.03%) Senior
6 11 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (4.74%) Senior Network Engineer
7 10 (4.31%) Support Engineer
8 9 (3.88%) Infrastructure Manager
8 9 (3.88%) Infrastructure Support Manager
8 9 (3.88%) Junior
8 9 (3.88%) Support Manager
9 8 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) IT Support
10 7 (3.02%) NOC Engineer
11 6 (2.59%) 3rd Line Support
11 6 (2.59%) Analyst
11 6 (2.59%) Site Engineer
11 6 (2.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.72%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.29%) Middleware
3 1 (0.43%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 97 (41.81%) Legacy Systems
2 32 (13.79%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.31%) Driving Licence
4 10 (4.31%) PKI
5 9 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.88%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (3.45%) CMDB
7 7 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.29%) CCTV
10 3 (1.29%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.86%) iPad
11 2 (0.86%) iPhone
12 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.43%) FMCG
12 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 161 (69.40%) Windows
2 134 (57.76%) Windows Server
3 104 (44.83%) Linux
4 97 (41.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (5.60%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (5.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (3.88%) Windows 10
7 8 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (1.72%) Unix
9 3 (1.29%) AIX
10 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (57.76%) Customer Service
2 123 (53.02%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (43.97%) Kalman Filter
4 100 (43.10%) Migration
5 98 (42.24%) Email Filtering
5 98 (42.24%) Web Filtering
6 97 (41.81%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 96 (41.38%) Customer Experience
7 96 (41.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 34 (14.66%) ITSM
9 33 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 29 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (12.50%) Problem Management
11 28 (12.07%) Change Management
11 28 (12.07%) ITIL
11 28 (12.07%) Network Monitoring
12 25 (10.78%) DevOps
13 24 (10.34%) Load Balancing
14 22 (9.48%) Security Operations
15 18 (7.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.17%) Python
3 8 (3.45%) SQL
4 4 (1.72%) Bash
4 4 (1.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 127 (54.74%) Security Cleared
2 108 (46.55%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.64%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (8.62%) CCNP
5 18 (7.76%) CCNA
6 14 (6.03%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.88%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.16%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.16%) Degree
8 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.72%) CCIE
9 4 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.86%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.86%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.43%) RHCE
11 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.43%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (42.24%) PCI DSS
2 97 (41.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 6 (2.59%) SLA
4 4 (1.72%) PMO
5 2 (0.86%) GDPR
5 2 (0.86%) QA
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 137 (59.05%) Active Directory
2 102 (43.97%) Hyper-V
3 96 (41.38%) Terminal Server
4 23 (9.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (6.47%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (6.03%) Firmware
7 11 (4.74%) VMware NSX
8 8 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.72%) ProxySG
10 3 (1.29%) vSphere
11 2 (0.86%) KVM
11 2 (0.86%) RHEV
11 2 (0.86%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (13.79%) SCCM
2 29 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 17 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (5.17%) Terraform
5 11 (4.74%) Grafana
5 11 (4.74%) Nagios
5 11 (4.74%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.45%) ZABBIX
7 6 (2.59%) Ansible
8 5 (2.16%) SCOM
9 3 (1.29%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.29%) Netcool
9 3 (1.29%) WSUS
10 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.86%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.43%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.43%) Nessus
11 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.43%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 142 (61.21%) Microsoft
2 136 (58.62%) VMware
3 110 (47.41%) Veeam
4 109 (46.98%) Splunk
5 104 (44.83%) Tanium
6 96 (41.38%) Brocade
6 96 (41.38%) Nimble Storage
7 71 (30.60%) Cisco
8 24 (10.34%) Meraki
9 22 (9.48%) CheckPoint
10 21 (9.05%) Juniper
10 21 (9.05%) Palo Alto
11 20 (8.62%) ServiceNow
12 14 (6.03%) F5
12 14 (6.03%) Fortinet
12 14 (6.03%) NetApp
13 13 (5.60%) 3PAR
14 11 (4.74%) Citrix
15 10 (4.31%) Red Hat
15 10 (4.31%) Zscaler