SolarWinds Contracts in England

SolarWinds
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SolarWinds.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 507 562
Rank change year-on-year +93 +55 -76
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 135 140 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.87% 0.68% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 91 136
10th Percentile £330 £313 £297
25th Percentile £453 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £631 £600
UK median daily rate £515 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +15.73% -6.32% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 14
10th Percentile - £56.68 £13.34
25th Percentile - £62.00 £20.65
Median hourly rate £23.80 £62.62 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.99% +40.71% +78.00%
75th Percentile - £63.23 £48.71
90th Percentile - £69.61 £63.57
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year -61.99% +40.71% +78.00%

All Vendors
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,530 20,542 27,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.25% 41.94% 39.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,855 14,123 18,824
10th Percentile £263 £265 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £637 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 594 785
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.94
25th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £39.03 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year -42.34% +82.79% +1.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.31 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in England.

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds in England.

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in England

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +54 50 £531 +30.77% 2
London +85 37 £525 - 18
North of England +32 28 £515 +17.05% 7
North West +40 27 £514 +58.08% 2
South West +3 9 £535 -2.73% 7
East Midlands +24 7 £600 +84.62% 1
Midlands +19 7 £600 +84.62% 2
East of England +12 1 £350 -42.86% 4
Yorkshire 0 1 £650 +47.73% 5
SolarWinds
UK

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.96%) IIS
4 2 (1.48%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.74%) Confluence
5 1 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (5.19%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (24.44%) Azure
2 29 (21.48%) AWS
3 11 (8.15%) GitHub
3 11 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.93%) GCP
5 7 (5.19%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.44%) IaaS
6 6 (4.44%) SaaS
7 5 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (3.70%) Mimecast
7 5 (3.70%) OCI
7 5 (3.70%) PaaS
8 4 (2.96%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.48%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.48%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.74%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 86 (63.70%) Firewall
2 34 (25.19%) DNS
3 30 (22.22%) BGP
3 30 (22.22%) OSPF
4 27 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 27 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
5 26 (19.26%) IPsec
6 25 (18.52%) LAN
7 23 (17.04%) DHCP
8 22 (16.30%) EIGRP
8 22 (16.30%) VPN
9 21 (15.56%) WAN
9 21 (15.56%) Wireless
10 20 (14.81%) Cisco Nexus
10 20 (14.81%) HSRP
11 19 (14.07%) NetScaler
12 17 (12.59%) Cisco Firepower
12 17 (12.59%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (11.11%) SNMP
13 15 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.74%) MySQL
4 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.67%) GitLab
2 4 (2.96%) Git
3 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.48%) JIRA
3 2 (1.48%) Subversion
General
1 17 (12.59%) Public Sector
2 16 (11.85%) Finance
3 8 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.93%) Social Skills
4 5 (3.70%) Legal
5 4 (2.96%) Electronics
5 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.96%) Marketing
5 4 (2.96%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.22%) Military
7 2 (1.48%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 24 (17.78%) Senior
3 18 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (8.15%) Architect
5 10 (7.41%) Network Architect
6 8 (5.93%) Cisco Engineer
6 8 (5.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 8 (5.93%) Database Specialist
6 8 (5.93%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Platform Specialist
9 5 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Wintel Engineer
10 4 (2.96%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.22%) IT Support
11 3 (2.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.22%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.89%) Jinja
2 8 (5.93%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.22%) SAML
4 2 (1.48%) JSON
4 2 (1.48%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.74%) LDAP
5 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 15 (11.11%) PKI
3 11 (8.15%) Clustering
4 9 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.93%) Replication
6 6 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.96%) NHS
8 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.48%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.48%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.74%) CCTV
10 1 (0.74%) CMDB
10 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.78%) Windows
2 18 (13.33%) Linux
3 12 (8.89%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.19%) Unix
5 6 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.44%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.96%) Solaris
6 4 (2.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.48%) VMS
8 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.74%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.48%) ITIL
2 25 (18.52%) Change Management
3 22 (16.30%) Network Architecture
4 20 (14.81%) High Availability
5 19 (14.07%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (14.07%) Network Monitoring
6 17 (12.59%) ITSM
6 17 (12.59%) Migration
6 17 (12.59%) Network Management
7 15 (11.11%) Capacity Management
8 14 (10.37%) Task Automation
9 12 (8.89%) DevOps
9 12 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.15%) Computer Science
10 11 (8.15%) Data Migration
10 11 (8.15%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (6.67%) Agile
11 9 (6.67%) Load Balancing
11 9 (6.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (24.44%) Python
2 20 (14.81%) PowerShell
3 14 (10.37%) Perl
4 13 (9.63%) Bash
5 12 (8.89%) Tcl
6 10 (7.41%) SQL
7 2 (1.48%) VBScript
8 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (38.52%) Cisco Certification
3 50 (37.04%) SC Cleared
4 44 (32.59%) CCNP
5 33 (24.44%) CCNA
6 16 (11.85%) Degree
7 15 (11.11%) CCIE
8 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (5.19%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.70%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (2.96%) VCAP
12 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
12 3 (2.22%) MCSA
12 3 (2.22%) MCSE
13 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.74%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.74%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.70%) SLA
2 2 (1.48%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (17.04%) Active Directory
1 23 (17.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (10.37%) vSphere
3 13 (9.63%) Firmware
4 8 (5.93%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (2.96%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.96%) XenApp
7 3 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.48%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.48%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.74%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.74%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (25.93%) Ansible
2 25 (18.52%) Terraform
3 10 (7.41%) SCCM
4 8 (5.93%) SolarWinds Orion
5 7 (5.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (5.19%) WSUS
6 6 (4.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (4.44%) SCOM
6 6 (4.44%) VxRail
7 5 (3.70%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.70%) Kubernetes
8 4 (2.96%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.96%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.22%) OPNET
9 3 (2.22%) vRealize
10 2 (1.48%) Nessus
10 2 (1.48%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.48%) Puppet
10 2 (1.48%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.48%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 65 (48.15%) Cisco
2 40 (29.63%) F5
3 36 (26.67%) Palo Alto
4 35 (25.93%) VMware
5 26 (19.26%) Citrix
6 25 (18.52%) Microsoft
7 21 (15.56%) CheckPoint
8 13 (9.63%) Red Hat
9 10 (7.41%) Dell
9 10 (7.41%) Juniper
10 9 (6.67%) Fortinet
10 9 (6.67%) Meraki
11 8 (5.93%) Oracle
12 6 (4.44%) Infoblox
12 6 (4.44%) Veeam
13 5 (3.70%) Google
13 5 (3.70%) Symantec
14 4 (2.96%) HP
14 4 (2.96%) LogicMonitor
14 4 (2.96%) SAP