SolarWinds
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within SolarWinds.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 607 601 733
Rank change year-on-year -6 +132 -118
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 299 414 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.82% 0.94% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 237 292 426
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,625 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -6.25% -4.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £69,911
90th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

All Vendors
UK

SolarWinds is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,515 43,852 60,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.25% 41.90% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 25,094 24,954 33,291
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 14 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 27 April 2024. 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 +37 295 £57,500 +27.78% 47
UK excluding London -103 164 £51,000 +20.00% 23
London +151 131 £70,000 +19.15% 25
Work from Home +21 96 £52,500 +16.67% 27
North of England +4 62 £50,000 +17.65% 4
South West +12 55 £52,500 +26.51% 6
Yorkshire +90 28 £47,500 +17.28% 2
North West -28 27 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Midlands -37 21 £41,000 -8.89% 4
South East -9 20 £46,651 -1.79% 2
West Midlands -3 18 £41,000 - 4
East of England +14 8 £42,500 +21.43% 5
North East -9 7 £70,000 +86.67%
East Midlands -30 3 £55,000 +15.79%

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 38 (12.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (7.02%) IIS
3 15 (5.02%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.68%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.00%) Apache
5 3 (1.00%) GlassFish
5 3 (1.00%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (12.04%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.01%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Adaptiv
2 3 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 161 (53.85%) Azure
2 75 (25.08%) Microsoft 365
3 61 (20.40%) AWS
4 30 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 22 (7.36%) Cloud Computing
7 19 (6.35%) GCP
8 18 (6.02%) IaaS
9 16 (5.35%) Rubrik
10 14 (4.68%) SaaS
11 13 (4.35%) Datadog
12 10 (3.34%) PaaS
13 8 (2.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 7 (2.34%) Azure Stack
14 7 (2.34%) Nutanix
14 7 (2.34%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (1.67%) Snowflake
15 5 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 4 (1.34%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 96 (32.11%) Firewall
2 94 (31.44%) WAN
3 75 (25.08%) LAN
4 71 (23.75%) DNS
5 69 (23.08%) Network Security
6 65 (21.74%) DHCP
6 65 (21.74%) VPN
7 51 (17.06%) Wireless
8 50 (16.72%) SD-WAN
9 36 (12.04%) TCP/IP
10 34 (11.37%) BGP
10 34 (11.37%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (10.70%) MPLS
12 30 (10.03%) SAN
13 29 (9.70%) Cisco Nexus
14 27 (9.03%) WLAN
15 26 (8.70%) OSPF
16 25 (8.36%) VLAN
17 22 (7.36%) iSCSI
18 18 (6.02%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.34%) MySQL
3 5 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.67%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.67%) Redis
4 3 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.34%) JIRA
2 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.00%) Git
2 3 (1.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (20.40%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.38%) Finance
3 28 (9.36%) Law
4 21 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.02%) Military
7 9 (3.01%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.68%) Legal
9 7 (2.34%) Banking
10 6 (2.01%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.34%) Agriculture
12 4 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.34%) Police
13 3 (1.00%) Back Office
13 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.00%) Local Government
14 2 (0.67%) Billing
14 2 (0.67%) Games
14 2 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 85 (28.43%) Network Engineer
2 74 (24.75%) Senior
3 48 (16.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 45 (15.05%) Analyst
5 33 (11.04%) Senior Network Engineer
6 28 (9.36%) Consultant
6 28 (9.36%) Support Engineer
7 25 (8.36%) Senior Analyst
8 24 (8.03%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (8.03%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 24 (8.03%) Security Consultant
9 23 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 22 (7.36%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
11 21 (7.02%) Lead
12 16 (5.35%) Storage Engineer
13 15 (5.02%) Backup Engineer
13 15 (5.02%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (5.02%) Storage and Backup Engineer
14 13 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 13 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.03%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (7.02%) JSON
3 16 (5.35%) ARM Templates
4 10 (3.34%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.67%) .NET
5 5 (1.67%) Middleware
6 4 (1.34%) SAML
7 3 (1.00%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (1.00%) LDAP
8 1 (0.33%) OAuth
8 1 (0.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 24 (8.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 17 (5.69%) EMC VNX
3 17 (5.69%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.02%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (5.02%) Replication
4 15 (5.02%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (4.68%) PKI
6 12 (4.01%) PMI
6 12 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.34%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.01%) Credit Risk
9 6 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.01%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.34%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 122 (40.80%) Windows
2 67 (22.41%) Linux
3 63 (21.07%) Windows Server
4 33 (11.04%) Windows 10
5 26 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (5.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (4.68%) Unix
8 7 (2.34%) Windows 8
9 6 (2.01%) Android
9 6 (2.01%) Windows 7
9 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.34%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.34%) Solaris
10 4 (1.34%) VMS
11 3 (1.00%) AIX
11 3 (1.00%) CentOS
11 3 (1.00%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.00%) SUSE
11 3 (1.00%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (23.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (18.73%) ITIL
3 48 (16.05%) Agile
4 41 (13.71%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (13.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 39 (13.04%) DevOps
6 37 (12.37%) Incident Management
7 36 (12.04%) Project Management
8 35 (11.71%) Network Management
8 35 (11.71%) Network Monitoring
9 33 (11.04%) SIEM
10 32 (10.70%) Mentoring
11 30 (10.03%) Information Security
12 29 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (9.03%) Analytics
13 27 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (8.36%) Service Management
14 25 (8.36%) Vulnerability Management
15 24 (8.03%) Customer Service
15 24 (8.03%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.05%) PowerShell
2 25 (8.36%) SQL
3 9 (3.01%) Python
4 8 (2.68%) Java
5 6 (2.01%) Bash
6 3 (1.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 60 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 45 (15.05%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (9.70%) DV Cleared
3 29 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 28 (9.36%) CCNP
5 26 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (6.69%) CCNA
7 16 (5.35%) Degree
8 12 (4.01%) PMI Certification
9 9 (3.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (2.68%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (2.01%) MCSA
13 5 (1.67%) CISSP
14 4 (1.34%) CCIE
14 4 (1.34%) JNCIA
14 4 (1.34%) MCITP
14 4 (1.34%) MCSE
15 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.36%) SLA
2 24 (8.03%) NIST
3 8 (2.68%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.01%) QA
5 5 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.34%) NCSC
7 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 123 (41.14%) Active Directory
2 68 (22.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (11.71%) VMware ESXi
4 31 (10.37%) vSphere
5 29 (9.70%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.34%) Docker
7 7 (2.34%) Firmware
7 7 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.33%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.33%) vCloud
10 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (9.70%) vCenter Server
2 26 (8.70%) ZABBIX
3 24 (8.03%) SCOM
4 21 (7.02%) Nagios
5 20 (6.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (6.02%) EMC NetWorker
6 18 (6.02%) SCCM
7 16 (5.35%) Kubernetes
8 13 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 13 (4.35%) Ansible
8 13 (4.35%) Terraform
8 13 (4.35%) VxRail
9 12 (4.01%) Opsgenie
10 10 (3.34%) Grafana
11 9 (3.01%) FortiGate
11 9 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (2.68%) Icinga
12 8 (2.68%) SolarWinds Orion
12 8 (2.68%) WSUS
13 6 (2.01%) Control-M
Vendors
1 131 (43.81%) Cisco
2 117 (39.13%) Microsoft
3 107 (35.79%) VMware
4 50 (16.72%) Citrix
5 43 (14.38%) Fortinet
6 42 (14.05%) Veeam
7 38 (12.71%) NetApp
7 38 (12.71%) Palo Alto
8 34 (11.37%) Meraki
9 31 (10.37%) Aruba
10 29 (9.70%) HP
11 24 (8.03%) Tanium
11 24 (8.03%) Tripwire
12 22 (7.36%) CheckPoint
12 22 (7.36%) Juniper
13 21 (7.02%) Dell
13 21 (7.02%) LogicMonitor
14 19 (6.35%) EMC
15 17 (5.69%) Oracle
16 15 (5.02%) F5