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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 512 605
Rank change year-on-year +82 +93 -60
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 151 183 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.84% 0.74% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 122 166
10th Percentile £327 £251 £300
25th Percentile £450 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -5.26% +23.38%
75th Percentile £588 £567 £538
90th Percentile £650 £623 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £450 £415
% change year-on-year +14.17% +8.43% +18.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 15
10th Percentile - £56.68 £13.96
25th Percentile - £62.00 £21.27
Median hourly rate £23.80 £62.62 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.99% +40.71% +78.00%
75th Percentile - £63.23 £48.67
90th Percentile - £69.61 £61.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year - +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 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

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 20 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
Top 12 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 20 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 +98 137 £520 +15.58% 72
UK excluding London +31 102 £514 +14.17% 47
South East +53 48 £525 +25.37% 13
Work from Home +121 42 £488 +0.52% 26
London +91 38 £525 - 27
North West +25 29 £513 +13.89% 7
North of England +17 29 £513 +15.17% 11
Scotland +42 8 £435 -13.00%
East Midlands +20 8 £600 +84.62% 3
Midlands +13 8 £600 +84.62% 7
South West -8 8 £535 -2.73% 9
East of England +5 1 £350 -36.36% 6

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 12 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.30%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.65%) IIS
4 2 (1.32%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.66%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (4.64%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.64%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (22.52%) Azure
2 29 (19.21%) AWS
3 12 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.96%) GitHub
5 8 (5.30%) GCP
6 7 (4.64%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.97%) IaaS
7 6 (3.97%) SaaS
8 5 (3.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (3.31%) Mimecast
8 5 (3.31%) OCI
8 5 (3.31%) PaaS
9 4 (2.65%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.32%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.32%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.66%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 95 (62.91%) Firewall
2 38 (25.17%) BGP
2 38 (25.17%) OSPF
3 37 (24.50%) Cisco ASA
4 36 (23.84%) Cisco ISE
4 36 (23.84%) DNS
5 33 (21.85%) IPsec
6 29 (19.21%) EIGRP
7 27 (17.88%) HSRP
8 25 (16.56%) DHCP
8 25 (16.56%) NetScaler
9 24 (15.89%) Cisco Firepower
9 24 (15.89%) LAN
10 20 (13.25%) VPN
10 20 (13.25%) WAN
10 20 (13.25%) Wireless
11 19 (12.58%) Cisco Nexus
11 19 (12.58%) SNMP
12 17 (11.26%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (9.93%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.65%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (1.99%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.66%) MySQL
5 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.96%) GitLab
2 3 (1.99%) Git
3 2 (1.32%) JIRA
3 2 (1.32%) Subversion
General
1 21 (13.91%) Public Sector
2 15 (9.93%) Finance
3 11 (7.28%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.64%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.31%) Legal
7 3 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.99%) Electronics
7 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.99%) Marketing
7 3 (1.99%) Military
8 2 (1.32%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.66%) Local Government
9 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (59.60%) Network Engineer
2 24 (15.89%) Senior
3 18 (11.92%) Senior Network Engineer
4 11 (7.28%) Architect
4 11 (7.28%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 10 (6.62%) Network Architect
6 9 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.30%) Cisco Engineer
7 8 (5.30%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (5.30%) Database Specialist
8 6 (3.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Platform Specialist
9 5 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.31%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.31%) Wintel Engineer
10 4 (2.65%) Support Engineer
11 3 (1.99%) Analyst
11 3 (1.99%) Integration Manager
11 3 (1.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.95%) Jinja
2 8 (5.30%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.99%) SAML
4 2 (1.32%) JSON
4 2 (1.32%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.66%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.92%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.93%) PKI
3 11 (7.28%) Clustering
4 9 (5.96%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.30%) Replication
6 6 (3.97%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.99%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.99%) CMDB
7 3 (1.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.99%) NHS
7 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.32%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.32%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.66%) CCTV
9 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.87%) Windows
2 22 (14.57%) Linux
3 13 (8.61%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.64%) Unix
4 7 (4.64%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.31%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.65%) Solaris
7 4 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.32%) VMS
9 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.66%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.18%) ITIL
2 28 (18.54%) Change Management
3 23 (15.23%) ITSM
3 23 (15.23%) Network Management
4 20 (13.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (13.25%) Network Architecture
5 19 (12.58%) High Availability
6 18 (11.92%) Migration
6 18 (11.92%) Network Monitoring
7 15 (9.93%) Capacity Management
7 15 (9.93%) Task Automation
8 14 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (7.95%) DevOps
11 11 (7.28%) Computer Science
11 11 (7.28%) Data Migration
11 11 (7.28%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (6.62%) Agile
12 10 (6.62%) Roadmaps
13 9 (5.96%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.19%) Python
2 24 (15.89%) PowerShell
3 14 (9.27%) Bash
3 14 (9.27%) Perl
4 12 (7.95%) SQL
4 12 (7.95%) Tcl
5 2 (1.32%) VBScript
6 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (39.07%) Security Cleared
2 56 (37.09%) Cisco Certification
3 54 (35.76%) SC Cleared
4 44 (29.14%) CCNP
5 35 (23.18%) CCNA
6 18 (11.92%) Degree
7 15 (9.93%) CCIE
8 8 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (4.64%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.31%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (2.65%) VCAP
12 3 (1.99%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.99%) MCSA
12 3 (1.99%) MCSE
13 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.66%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.64%) SLA
2 2 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.32%) GDPR
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) NIST
3 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (15.89%) Active Directory
1 24 (15.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (9.27%) vSphere
3 13 (8.61%) Firmware
4 6 (3.97%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.31%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.65%) XenApp
7 2 (1.32%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.66%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.66%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (22.52%) Ansible
2 23 (15.23%) Terraform
3 10 (6.62%) SCCM
4 8 (5.30%) SolarWinds Orion
5 7 (4.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (4.64%) SCOM
5 7 (4.64%) WSUS
6 6 (3.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (3.97%) Nagios
7 5 (3.31%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.31%) Kubernetes
8 4 (2.65%) OpenView
8 4 (2.65%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.65%) VxRail
9 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.99%) OPNET
9 3 (1.99%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.32%) Nessus
10 2 (1.32%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.32%) SELinux
Vendors
1 80 (52.98%) Cisco
2 44 (29.14%) Palo Alto
3 39 (25.83%) F5
4 34 (22.52%) VMware
5 33 (21.85%) Citrix
6 29 (19.21%) Microsoft
7 21 (13.91%) CheckPoint
8 16 (10.60%) Fortinet
9 13 (8.61%) Red Hat
10 10 (6.62%) Juniper
11 8 (5.30%) Dell
11 8 (5.30%) Meraki
11 8 (5.30%) Oracle
12 7 (4.64%) Infoblox
13 6 (3.97%) Veeam
14 5 (3.31%) Google
14 5 (3.31%) LogicMonitor
14 5 (3.31%) Symantec
15 4 (2.65%) HP
16 3 (1.99%) EMC