SolarWinds Orion Contracts

SolarWinds Orion
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SolarWinds Orion skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds Orion over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 674 832
Rank change year-on-year +111 +158 -121
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds Orion 12 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.014% 0.007%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.23% 0.091% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 6
10th Percentile £463 £363 £239
25th Percentile £475 £406 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £360
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +28.47% -28.00%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £511
90th Percentile £543 £558 £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £463 -
% change year-on-year +16.22% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SolarWinds Orion is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

SolarWinds Orion
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds Orion in the UK

SolarWinds Orion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds Orion in the UK

SolarWinds Orion
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds Orion in the UK

SolarWinds Orion
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds Orion within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +91 9 £500 +21.21%
London - 7 £500 -
Work from Home - 3 - -
UK excluding London +32 2 £538 +16.22%
North of England +23 1 £575 +27.78%
North West +21 1 £575 +27.78%
South East +9 1 £500 +33.33%

SolarWinds Orion
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:

Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) LAN
2 9 (75.00%) Firewall
3 8 (66.67%) BGP
3 8 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (66.67%) DHCP
3 8 (66.67%) DNS
3 8 (66.67%) OSPF
3 8 (66.67%) Wireless
4 7 (58.33%) EIGRP
5 6 (50.00%) IPsec
5 6 (50.00%) MPLS
5 6 (50.00%) TACACS
6 5 (41.67%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (41.67%) HSRP
6 5 (41.67%) IPv4
6 5 (41.67%) IPv6
6 5 (41.67%) VLAN
6 5 (41.67%) VXLAN
7 4 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (16.67%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Senior
3 6 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Network Manager
5 2 (16.67%) Programme Manager
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Lead
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) API Integration
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (25.00%) Minimum Viable Product
1 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (16.67%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (8.33%) Adaptive Security
3 1 (8.33%) Information Management
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL
3 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (8.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Server Building
3 1 (8.33%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (8.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) CCNA
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (58.33%) CCNP
3 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
3 5 (41.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 9 (75.00%) SolarWinds
3 7 (58.33%) CheckPoint
4 6 (50.00%) F5
5 5 (41.67%) Google
5 5 (41.67%) Infoblox
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
6 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (8.33%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (8.33%) Forcepoint
7 1 (8.33%) Juniper
7 1 (8.33%) Symantec
7 1 (8.33%) Veeam
7 1 (8.33%) VMware