SolarWinds Jobs

SolarWinds
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 5 June 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
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 618 611
Rank change year-on-year +70 -7 +127
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 173 282 366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.77% 0.76% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 145 225 279
10th Percentile £40,400 £37,313 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,692 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,411 36,915 38,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.06% 34.89% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 12,095 24,928 23,227
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,543 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.30% -8.91% +5.26%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SolarWinds as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds.

Salary trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the UK over the 6 months to 5 June 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
England +52 162 £53,750 -2.27% 109
London +83 95 £65,000 -7.14% 44
UK excluding London +99 75 £48,500 -3.00% 84
Work from Home +87 53 £56,121 -11.97% 47
South East +91 22 £42,500 -15.00% 34
South West +87 21 £56,121 +10.04% 10
Midlands +63 17 £50,693 +11.05% 14
West Midlands +53 16 £51,500 +21.18% 7
East of England +38 5 £42,000 -1.18% 9
Wales - 4 £46,367 - 2
Scotland - 4 £45,000 - 8
East Midlands +42 1 £45,000 -18.18% 6
North of England -9 1 £40,000 -20.00% 6
North West -11 1 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.05%) IIS
2 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.73%) Apache
3 3 (1.73%) nginx
3 3 (1.73%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (2.89%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 97 (56.07%) Azure
2 64 (36.99%) AWS
3 20 (11.56%) GCP
4 19 (10.98%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (9.25%) Entra ID
6 13 (7.51%) AWS Direct Connect
6 13 (7.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (7.51%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.62%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.89%) IaaS
12 4 (2.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (2.31%) Nutanix
13 3 (1.73%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.73%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.73%) SaaS
13 3 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 98 (56.65%) Firewall
2 66 (38.15%) WAN
3 56 (32.37%) VPN
4 52 (30.06%) OSPF
5 47 (27.17%) BGP
6 45 (26.01%) MPLS
7 41 (23.70%) SD-WAN
8 38 (21.97%) DNS
9 35 (20.23%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (19.65%) LAN
11 29 (16.76%) VLAN
12 27 (15.61%) DHCP
12 27 (15.61%) IPsec
13 26 (15.03%) Cisco Firepower
13 26 (15.03%) TCP/IP
14 25 (14.45%) Cisco ASA
15 24 (13.87%) Network Security
16 20 (11.56%) EIGRP
17 16 (9.25%) NX-OS
17 16 (9.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.05%) DB2
2 7 (4.05%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (2.31%) MySQL
4 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.58%) Power BI
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (4.05%) Git
1 7 (4.05%) Visual Studio
2 6 (3.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.16%) JMeter
4 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) JIRA
General
1 54 (31.21%) Finance
2 45 (26.01%) Banking
3 29 (16.76%) Social Skills
4 16 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.94%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.62%) Police
7 6 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.47%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.31%) Front Office
8 4 (2.31%) Local Government
9 3 (1.73%) Back Office
9 3 (1.73%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.16%) Marketing
10 2 (1.16%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Electronics
11 1 (0.58%) Games
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 84 (48.55%) Network Engineer
2 29 (16.76%) Senior
3 24 (13.87%) Analyst
4 19 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (9.25%) Senior Network Engineer
6 12 (6.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 12 (6.94%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
6 12 (6.94%) Applications Support
6 12 (6.94%) Lead
6 12 (6.94%) Wintel Engineer
7 11 (6.36%) Cisco Engineer
7 11 (6.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 11 (6.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.36%) Operations Engineer
7 11 (6.36%) Senior Applications Support
8 10 (5.78%) Administrator
8 10 (5.78%) Network Operations Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 9 (5.20%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
10 8 (4.62%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.05%) .NET
1 7 (4.05%) .NET Framework
1 7 (4.05%) ASP.NET
2 6 (3.47%) SAML
3 5 (2.89%) LDAP
3 5 (2.89%) OAuth
3 5 (2.89%) OpenID
3 5 (2.89%) SailPoint
4 4 (2.31%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.73%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (1.73%) Node.js
5 3 (1.73%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.58%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.45%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.09%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.20%) PKI
4 7 (4.05%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.47%) IPTV
5 6 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.89%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.31%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.58%) Derivative
10 1 (0.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.58%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (28.32%) Windows
2 38 (21.97%) Windows Server
3 20 (11.56%) Linux
4 16 (9.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (8.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (7.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.89%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.73%) CentOS
9 3 (1.73%) Rocky
10 1 (0.58%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.53%) ITIL
2 37 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (17.92%) Change Management
4 28 (16.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 27 (15.61%) Incident Management
6 26 (15.03%) Network Monitoring
6 26 (15.03%) Service Management
7 24 (13.87%) Artificial Intelligence
7 24 (13.87%) Cost Optimisation
8 23 (13.29%) DevOps
8 23 (13.29%) ITSM
8 23 (13.29%) Process Improvement
9 20 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (10.98%) Network Management
11 17 (9.83%) High Availability
11 17 (9.83%) Patch Management
12 16 (9.25%) Customer Service
12 16 (9.25%) Service Delivery
13 15 (8.67%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (18.50%) PowerShell
2 31 (17.92%) Python
3 28 (16.18%) SQL
4 25 (14.45%) Bash
5 7 (4.05%) C#
5 7 (4.05%) PL/SQL
5 7 (4.05%) T-SQL
5 7 (4.05%) VB.NET
6 3 (1.73%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 43 (24.86%) Cisco Certification
2 39 (22.54%) CCNA
3 34 (19.65%) Security Cleared
4 33 (19.08%) CCNP
5 29 (16.76%) SC Cleared
6 23 (13.29%) Degree
7 21 (12.14%) Azure Certification
8 20 (11.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (9.25%) DV Cleared
10 11 (6.36%) MCSE
10 11 (6.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (4.05%) RHCSA
12 6 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (3.47%) Master's Degree
13 5 (2.89%) CCDA
13 5 (2.89%) CCDP
13 5 (2.89%) CCIE
13 5 (2.89%) CISM
13 5 (2.89%) CISSP
14 3 (1.73%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.67%) QA
2 14 (8.09%) SLA
3 6 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.73%) GDPR
5 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.16%) NIST
5 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 35 (20.23%) Active Directory
2 31 (17.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (13.87%) Hyper-V
4 13 (7.51%) Firmware
5 4 (2.31%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.73%) vSphere
7 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (16.76%) Nagios
2 20 (11.56%) Terraform
3 19 (10.98%) Ansible
3 19 (10.98%) SCCM
4 16 (9.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (8.09%) SCOM
6 12 (6.94%) NetBackup
7 7 (4.05%) Grafana
7 7 (4.05%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.47%) ITRS Geneos
8 6 (3.47%) QRadar
9 5 (2.89%) CASB
9 5 (2.89%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (2.31%) Kubernetes
10 4 (2.31%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.73%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.16%) Iperf
Vendors
1 95 (54.91%) Cisco
2 52 (30.06%) Microsoft
3 41 (23.70%) VMware
4 39 (22.54%) Fortinet
5 37 (21.39%) CheckPoint
6 33 (19.08%) Meraki
7 23 (13.29%) ServiceNow
8 22 (12.72%) Juniper
9 18 (10.40%) Palo Alto
10 15 (8.67%) Veeam
11 14 (8.09%) Infoblox
12 13 (7.51%) Dynatrace
12 13 (7.51%) Red Hat
13 11 (6.36%) Zscaler
14 10 (5.78%) Citrix
15 9 (5.20%) Arista
15 9 (5.20%) Avaya
16 8 (4.62%) Extreme Networks
16 8 (4.62%) F5
16 8 (4.62%) HP