SolarWinds Contracts in the North of England

SolarWinds
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SolarWinds over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 153 216
Rank change year-on-year -1 +63 -34
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 31 49 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.90% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 2.18% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 24
10th Percentile £438 £350 £230
25th Percentile £456 £415 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% +12.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £540 £488 £466
90th Percentile £550 £538 £500
England median daily rate £515 £450 £469
% change year-on-year +14.49% -4.00% +17.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.88
25th Percentile - - £18.24
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £21.41
90th Percentile - - £22.16
England median hourly rate £23.80 £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year -61.99% +40.71% +78.00%

All Vendors
North of England

SolarWinds falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,016 2,243 2,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 41.61% 41.22% 38.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,476 1,871
10th Percentile £251 £220 £180
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year - +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £650 £688 £645
England median daily rate £519 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 77 162
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.74 £10.20
25th Percentile £12.63 £17.70 £14.06
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.70 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -44.25% +53.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £26.39 £43.75 £36.19
90th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £75.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%

SolarWinds
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SolarWinds in the North of England

SolarWinds
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SolarWinds in the North of England

SolarWinds
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SolarWinds in the North of England

SolarWinds
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SolarWinds in the North of England

SolarWinds
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +26 31 £513 +13.89% 4
SolarWinds
England

SolarWinds
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) GCP
3 3 (9.68%) IaaS
3 3 (9.68%) PaaS
3 3 (9.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (64.52%) BGP
1 20 (64.52%) OSPF
2 17 (54.84%) Firewall
3 14 (45.16%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (45.16%) Cisco Firepower
3 14 (45.16%) Cisco ISE
3 14 (45.16%) EIGRP
3 14 (45.16%) HSRP
3 14 (45.16%) IPsec
3 14 (45.16%) NetScaler
4 12 (38.71%) SNMP
4 12 (38.71%) Spanning Tree
4 12 (38.71%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (25.81%) TCP/IP
6 4 (12.90%) MPLS
6 4 (12.90%) Value-Added Service
6 4 (12.90%) VLAN
6 4 (12.90%) VPN
6 4 (12.90%) Wireless
6 4 (12.90%) Wireshark
General
1 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (70.97%) Network Engineer
2 12 (38.71%) Senior
3 11 (35.48%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) IT Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) IT Operations Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Technologist
7 1 (3.23%) Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) CMDB
1 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Change Management
2 15 (48.39%) ITIL
3 14 (45.16%) Network Management
4 13 (41.94%) ITSM
5 12 (38.71%) DevOps
6 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (19.35%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
8 4 (12.90%) Network Virtualisation
9 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 2 (6.45%) Capacity Management
10 2 (6.45%) Capacity Planning
10 2 (6.45%) Configuration Management
10 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (6.45%) Incident Management
10 2 (6.45%) Performance Analysis
10 2 (6.45%) Problem Management
10 2 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
10 2 (6.45%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) Perl
2 12 (38.71%) Tcl
3 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (70.97%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (64.52%) CCNP
3 18 (58.06%) CCNA
4 16 (51.61%) Security Cleared
5 15 (48.39%) SC Cleared
6 5 (16.13%) Degree
7 4 (12.90%) CCIE
7 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (12.90%) VCAP
8 2 (6.45%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (3.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Firmware
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Nagios
2 2 (6.45%) ZABBIX
3 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (70.97%) Cisco
2 15 (48.39%) Palo Alto
3 14 (45.16%) Citrix
4 6 (19.35%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.45%) Meraki
6 2 (6.45%) Rapid7
6 2 (6.45%) Sophos
6 2 (6.45%) VMware
7 1 (3.23%) Aruba
7 1 (3.23%) Symantec
7 1 (3.23%) Veeam