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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 489 581
Rank change year-on-year +63 +92 -23
Contract jobs citing SolarWinds 153 195 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.84% 0.80% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 128 174
10th Percentile £391 £296 £300
25th Percentile £450 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -5.26% +18.82%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £538
90th Percentile £642 £608 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +14.17% +9.09% +17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile - £56.68 £17.64
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 £47.92
90th Percentile - £69.61 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year - +40.71% +78.00%

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 18,286 24,482 35,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.43% 43.42% 40.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,377 16,346 23,689
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 644 856
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.89 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.63 £48.46
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

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 2 June 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 2 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 +73 140 £515 +14.47% 54
UK excluding London +20 102 £514 +14.17% 45
South East +44 50 £500 +17.65% 12
Work from Home +112 41 £500 +4.17% 22
London +89 40 £525 - 11
North West +26 31 £513 +13.89% 4
North of England +12 31 £513 +13.89% 10
Midlands +20 10 £600 +84.62% 12
East Midlands +15 10 £600 +84.62% 4
Scotland +40 5 £450 -10.00%
South West -9 5 £605 +10.00% 5
East of England +1 1 £350 -36.36% 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 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.27%) IIS
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.65%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (4.58%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.58%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.53%) Azure
2 32 (20.92%) AWS
3 13 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 9 (5.88%) GitHub
5 8 (5.23%) GCP
6 6 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (3.92%) IaaS
6 6 (3.92%) SaaS
7 5 (3.27%) Mimecast
7 5 (3.27%) Nutanix
7 5 (3.27%) OCI
7 5 (3.27%) PaaS
8 4 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.96%) Rubrik
10 2 (1.31%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.65%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 100 (65.36%) Firewall
2 42 (27.45%) OSPF
3 41 (26.80%) BGP
4 40 (26.14%) Cisco ASA
5 37 (24.18%) DNS
6 35 (22.88%) Cisco ISE
6 35 (22.88%) IPsec
7 33 (21.57%) EIGRP
8 30 (19.61%) HSRP
9 28 (18.30%) NetScaler
10 26 (16.99%) Cisco Firepower
11 25 (16.34%) DHCP
11 25 (16.34%) LAN
12 20 (13.07%) Wireless
13 19 (12.42%) VPN
13 19 (12.42%) WAN
14 18 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
14 18 (11.76%) SNMP
15 17 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (10.46%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.61%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.65%) Power BI
5 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (5.88%) GitLab
2 3 (1.96%) Git
3 2 (1.31%) Subversion
4 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 15 (9.80%) Finance
2 14 (9.15%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.50%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.58%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.27%) Legal
7 4 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Law
8 3 (1.96%) Military
9 2 (1.31%) Electronics
9 2 (1.31%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.31%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Local Government
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (60.13%) Network Engineer
2 25 (16.34%) Senior
3 18 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (7.84%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 10 (6.54%) Architect
6 9 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Network Architect
7 8 (5.23%) Database Specialist
8 6 (3.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Platform Specialist
9 5 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) Analyst
10 4 (2.61%) Wintel Engineer
11 3 (1.96%) Integration Manager
11 3 (1.96%) Support Engineer
11 3 (1.96%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.84%) Jinja
2 7 (4.58%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.96%) SAML
3 3 (1.96%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.65%) JSON
4 1 (0.65%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.80%) PKI
3 11 (7.19%) Clustering
4 9 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (5.23%) Replication
6 7 (4.58%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.96%) CMDB
8 3 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.96%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.96%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.96%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.31%) CCTV
9 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.31%) NHS
10 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.61%) Windows
2 22 (14.38%) Linux
3 13 (8.50%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.23%) Unix
5 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.92%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.61%) Solaris
6 4 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.96%) VMS
7 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.31%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (23.53%) ITIL
2 28 (18.30%) Change Management
3 26 (16.99%) ITSM
4 24 (15.69%) Network Management
5 21 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (12.42%) High Availability
6 19 (12.42%) Network Architecture
7 18 (11.76%) Migration
7 18 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
8 16 (10.46%) Capacity Management
8 16 (10.46%) Task Automation
9 14 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (8.50%) DevOps
10 13 (8.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (7.19%) Computer Science
11 11 (7.19%) Data Migration
11 11 (7.19%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (6.54%) Agile
12 10 (6.54%) Network Virtualisation
12 10 (6.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (21.57%) Python
2 25 (16.34%) PowerShell
3 14 (9.15%) Bash
3 14 (9.15%) Perl
4 12 (7.84%) Tcl
5 11 (7.19%) SQL
6 2 (1.31%) VBScript
7 1 (0.65%) Bicep
7 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 53 (34.64%) Cisco Certification
3 52 (33.99%) SC Cleared
4 45 (29.41%) CCNP
5 34 (22.22%) CCNA
6 17 (11.11%) CCIE
6 17 (11.11%) Degree
7 7 (4.58%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.27%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.61%) VCAP
10 3 (1.96%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.31%) MCSA
11 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.65%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.88%) SLA
2 3 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) NIST
3 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (16.34%) Active Directory
2 24 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (9.15%) vSphere
4 13 (8.50%) Firmware
5 7 (4.58%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.27%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.61%) XenApp
8 3 (1.96%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.96%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.65%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (22.88%) Ansible
2 23 (15.03%) Terraform
3 10 (6.54%) SCCM
4 9 (5.88%) SolarWinds Orion
5 8 (5.23%) SCOM
6 7 (4.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (4.58%) Nagios
6 7 (4.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 6 (3.92%) WSUS
8 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
8 5 (3.27%) VxRail
9 4 (2.61%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.61%) OpenView
9 4 (2.61%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.96%) Nessus
10 3 (1.96%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.96%) OPNET
10 3 (1.96%) SCVMM
10 3 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (52.94%) Cisco
2 48 (31.37%) Palo Alto
3 41 (26.80%) F5
4 36 (23.53%) Citrix
5 32 (20.92%) VMware
6 30 (19.61%) Microsoft
7 24 (15.69%) CheckPoint
8 14 (9.15%) Fortinet
9 13 (8.50%) Red Hat
10 11 (7.19%) Juniper
11 9 (5.88%) Dell
12 8 (5.23%) Meraki
12 8 (5.23%) Oracle
13 7 (4.58%) Infoblox
14 6 (3.92%) LogicMonitor
15 5 (3.27%) Google
15 5 (3.27%) HP
15 5 (3.27%) Symantec
16 4 (2.61%) EMC
16 4 (2.61%) Forcepoint