SolarWinds Contracts

SolarWinds
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 545 619
Rank change year-on-year +94 +74 -81
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 150 171 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 0.82% 0.67% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 114 157
10th Percentile £328 £207 £300
25th Percentile £447 £331 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.05% -7.37% +26.67%
75th Percentile £619 £567 £538
90th Percentile £650 £629 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £431 £414
% change year-on-year +19.42% +4.23% +18.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 15
10th Percentile - £56.68 £13.96
25th Percentile £23.80 £62.00 £21.27
Median hourly rate £28.15 £62.62 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.04% +40.71% +78.00%
75th Percentile £42.19 £63.23 £48.67
90th Percentile £57.38 £69.61 £61.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year +0.61% +40.71% +112.41%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,383 25,346 35,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.59% 42.91% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,390 16,954 23,530
10th Percentile £263 £272 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £647 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 695 889
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.89
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.45 £61.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +114 138 £525 +17.98% 51
UK excluding London +54 105 £515 +19.42% 24
South East +55 50 £538 +32.31% 3
Work from Home +135 40 £488 -2.50% 27
London +103 38 £525 - 27
North of England +33 29 £515 +17.05% 5
North West +44 27 £514 +58.08% 2
South West +7 10 £535 +4.39% 7
Scotland +42 8 £435 -13.00% 2
Midlands +22 7 £600 +84.62% 2
East Midlands +21 7 £600 +84.62% 1
Yorkshire +4 2 £650 +47.73% 3
East of England +14 1 £350 -42.86% 4

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 11 (7.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.67%) IIS
4 2 (1.33%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (4.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.67%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (23.33%) Azure
2 30 (20.00%) AWS
3 13 (8.67%) GitHub
4 11 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.33%) GCP
6 7 (4.67%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.00%) IaaS
7 6 (4.00%) SaaS
8 5 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (3.33%) Mimecast
8 5 (3.33%) OCI
8 5 (3.33%) PaaS
9 4 (2.67%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.33%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.33%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 94 (62.67%) Firewall
2 34 (22.67%) DNS
3 31 (20.67%) BGP
3 31 (20.67%) Cisco ASA
3 31 (20.67%) OSPF
4 30 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
5 28 (18.67%) LAN
6 27 (18.00%) IPsec
7 24 (16.00%) WAN
8 23 (15.33%) DHCP
8 23 (15.33%) VPN
9 22 (14.67%) Wireless
10 21 (14.00%) EIGRP
11 20 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
11 20 (13.33%) HSRP
12 19 (12.67%) NetScaler
12 19 (12.67%) SNMP
13 17 (11.33%) Cisco Firepower
13 17 (11.33%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (9.33%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.67%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.67%) MySQL
5 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.00%) GitLab
2 4 (2.67%) Git
2 4 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.33%) JIRA
3 2 (1.33%) Subversion
General
1 21 (14.00%) Public Sector
2 18 (12.00%) Finance
3 10 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.00%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.33%) Electronics
6 5 (3.33%) Legal
6 5 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.33%) Marketing
7 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Military
8 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.67%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (56.00%) Network Engineer
2 25 (16.67%) Senior
3 19 (12.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (7.33%) Architect
5 10 (6.67%) Network Architect
6 9 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Cisco Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Database Specialist
8 7 (4.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) Platform Specialist
10 5 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) Lead
10 5 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) Wintel Engineer
11 4 (2.67%) Support Engineer
12 3 (2.00%) Integration Manager
12 3 (2.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.00%) Jinja
2 8 (5.33%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.00%) SAML
4 2 (1.33%) JSON
4 2 (1.33%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.67%) LDAP
5 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.33%) Data Centre
2 16 (10.67%) PKI
3 11 (7.33%) Clustering
4 9 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.33%) Replication
6 7 (4.67%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.33%) NHS
8 4 (2.67%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.33%) CMDB
10 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.33%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.33%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.67%) CCTV
11 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.67%) Smart Meter
11 1 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.00%) Windows
2 23 (15.33%) Linux
3 13 (8.67%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.33%) Unix
5 7 (4.67%) Windows 10
6 6 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.67%) Solaris
7 4 (2.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.33%) VMS
9 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.67%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (24.00%) ITIL
2 26 (17.33%) Change Management
3 23 (15.33%) Network Architecture
4 21 (14.00%) High Availability
4 21 (14.00%) ITSM
5 20 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (12.67%) Network Monitoring
7 18 (12.00%) Migration
7 18 (12.00%) Network Management
8 16 (10.67%) Capacity Management
8 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (9.33%) Task Automation
10 13 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (8.00%) Computer Science
11 12 (8.00%) DevOps
12 11 (7.33%) Data Migration
12 11 (7.33%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (7.33%) Roadmaps
12 11 (7.33%) Service Management
13 10 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.33%) Python
2 23 (15.33%) PowerShell
3 14 (9.33%) Bash
3 14 (9.33%) Perl
4 12 (8.00%) Tcl
5 11 (7.33%) SQL
6 2 (1.33%) VBScript
7 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (36.67%) Cisco Certification
1 55 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 51 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 43 (28.67%) CCNP
4 32 (21.33%) CCNA
5 19 (12.67%) Degree
6 15 (10.00%) CCIE
7 8 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.67%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.67%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.67%) VCAP
11 3 (2.00%) MCSA
11 3 (2.00%) MCSE
12 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) SLA
2 2 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) NIST
3 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 23 (15.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (9.33%) vSphere
4 13 (8.67%) Firmware
5 10 (6.67%) VMware NSX
6 5 (3.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (2.67%) XenApp
8 3 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.33%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.67%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (25.33%) Ansible
2 27 (18.00%) Terraform
3 11 (7.33%) SCCM
4 8 (5.33%) SolarWinds Orion
4 8 (5.33%) VxRail
5 7 (4.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (4.67%) SCOM
5 7 (4.67%) WSUS
6 6 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (3.33%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.33%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.33%) Nagios
7 5 (3.33%) vRealize
8 4 (2.67%) OpenView
8 4 (2.67%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.67%) Puppet
8 4 (2.67%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.67%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.00%) OPNET
10 2 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 73 (48.67%) Cisco
2 40 (26.67%) F5
3 37 (24.67%) Palo Alto
3 37 (24.67%) VMware
4 28 (18.67%) Microsoft
5 26 (17.33%) Citrix
6 20 (13.33%) CheckPoint
7 16 (10.67%) Fortinet
8 13 (8.67%) Red Hat
9 12 (8.00%) Dell
10 11 (7.33%) Juniper
11 9 (6.00%) Meraki
12 8 (5.33%) Oracle
13 7 (4.67%) Infoblox
14 6 (4.00%) Veeam
15 5 (3.33%) Google
15 5 (3.33%) SAP
15 5 (3.33%) Symantec
16 4 (2.67%) Forcepoint
16 4 (2.67%) HP