SolarWinds
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of SolarWinds products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SolarWinds over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within SolarWinds.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 612 713
Rank change year-on-year -10 +101 -83
Permanent jobs citing SolarWinds 279 395 605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.76% 0.95% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 220 291 443
10th Percentile £36,900 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £60,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,047 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +17.76% - -

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,536 41,710 62,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.57% 42.06% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,889 23,890 32,938
10th Percentile £26,742 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SolarWinds.

Salary trend for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SolarWinds over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SolarWinds in the UK

SolarWinds
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SolarWinds within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +16 275 £62,500 +31.58% 69
UK excluding London -134 155 £50,047 +17.76% 43
London +113 120 £70,000 +16.67% 28
Work from Home +4 96 £62,500 +31.58% 26
North of England +13 62 £50,000 +11.11% 9
South West -11 51 £51,000 +22.89% 7
Yorkshire +86 28 £47,500 +18.01% 3
North West -34 27 £55,000 +22.22% 6
Midlands -44 21 £42,500 -10.53% 7
West Midlands -6 18 £42,000 -6.67% 4
South East -34 17 £50,047 +0.09% 13
East of England +3 7 £42,500 +21.43% 6
North East -11 7 £70,000 +86.67%
East Midlands -25 3 £55,000 +15.79% 3

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 27 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (7.53%) IIS
3 12 (4.30%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.87%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.08%) Apache
5 3 (1.08%) GlassFish
5 3 (1.08%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.23%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Adaptiv
1 3 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 147 (52.69%) Azure
2 62 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (21.15%) AWS
4 23 (8.24%) Entra ID
5 20 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (7.17%) Cloud Computing
6 18 (6.45%) IaaS
7 17 (6.09%) GCP
8 16 (5.73%) Rubrik
9 14 (5.02%) SaaS
10 13 (4.66%) Datadog
11 10 (3.58%) PaaS
12 8 (2.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 7 (2.51%) Nutanix
13 7 (2.51%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (2.15%) Azure Stack
15 5 (1.79%) Snowflake
15 5 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 4 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 96 (34.41%) WAN
2 93 (33.33%) Firewall
3 76 (27.24%) LAN
4 69 (24.73%) DNS
4 69 (24.73%) Network Security
5 62 (22.22%) DHCP
6 59 (21.15%) VPN
7 54 (19.35%) SD-WAN
8 50 (17.92%) Wireless
9 35 (12.54%) MPLS
9 35 (12.54%) TCP/IP
9 35 (12.54%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (12.19%) BGP
11 29 (10.39%) Cisco Nexus
12 28 (10.04%) SAN
12 28 (10.04%) VLAN
12 28 (10.04%) WLAN
13 26 (9.32%) OSPF
14 21 (7.53%) iSCSI
15 18 (6.45%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.51%) MySQL
3 5 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.79%) Redis
4 3 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.51%) JIRA
2 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.08%) Git
2 3 (1.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (19.71%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.34%) Finance
3 22 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (7.89%) Law
4 15 (5.38%) Military
5 10 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.51%) Legal
8 5 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.43%) Agriculture
9 4 (1.43%) Banking
9 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.43%) Police
10 3 (1.08%) Back Office
10 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Local Government
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (31.54%) Network Engineer
2 63 (22.58%) Senior
3 42 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (12.19%) Senior Network Engineer
5 32 (11.47%) Analyst
6 30 (10.75%) Consultant
7 26 (9.32%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 26 (9.32%) Security Consultant
8 25 (8.96%) Support Engineer
9 22 (7.89%) Lead
10 21 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
12 16 (5.73%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 15 (5.38%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
13 15 (5.38%) Storage Engineer
14 14 (5.02%) Backup Engineer
14 14 (5.02%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (5.02%) Storage and Backup Engineer
15 13 (4.66%) Infrastructure Manager
16 12 (4.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.32%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (3.58%) ARM Templates
2 10 (3.58%) JSON
3 9 (3.23%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.79%) .NET
4 5 (1.79%) Middleware
5 4 (1.43%) SAML
6 3 (1.08%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.08%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.08%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (1.08%) LDAP
7 1 (0.36%) OAuth
7 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.13%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 16 (5.73%) EMC VNX
3 16 (5.73%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.38%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (5.38%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (5.02%) PKI
5 14 (5.02%) Replication
6 12 (4.30%) PMI
6 12 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.15%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.08%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 110 (39.43%) Windows
2 62 (22.22%) Linux
3 57 (20.43%) Windows Server
4 28 (10.04%) Windows 10
5 25 (8.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (5.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (3.94%) Unix
8 6 (2.15%) Android
9 5 (1.79%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.79%) Windows 8
10 4 (1.43%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.08%) AIX
11 3 (1.08%) CentOS
11 3 (1.08%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.08%) Rocky
11 3 (1.08%) Solaris
12 2 (0.72%) SUSE
12 2 (0.72%) VMS
12 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (20.07%) ITIL
3 51 (18.28%) Agile
4 42 (15.05%) Cybersecurity
5 40 (14.34%) Disaster Recovery
6 38 (13.62%) Network Management
7 37 (13.26%) Incident Management
8 35 (12.54%) Project Management
8 35 (12.54%) SIEM
9 34 (12.19%) Network Monitoring
10 31 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 29 (10.39%) Analytics
11 29 (10.39%) DevOps
12 28 (10.04%) Information Security
13 27 (9.68%) Vulnerability Management
14 26 (9.32%) Data Analytics
14 26 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (8.24%) Roadmaps
17 22 (7.89%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 33 (11.83%) PowerShell
2 21 (7.53%) SQL
3 8 (2.87%) Java
4 7 (2.51%) Python
5 5 (1.79%) Bash
6 3 (1.08%) C#
Qualifications
1 56 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.49%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (10.39%) CCNP
4 28 (10.04%) DV Cleared
5 24 (8.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (8.24%) SC Cleared
7 21 (7.53%) CCNA
8 14 (5.02%) Degree
9 12 (4.30%) PMI Certification
10 9 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (2.87%) Azure Certification
12 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.79%) CISSP
13 5 (1.79%) MCSA
13 5 (1.79%) MCSE
14 4 (1.43%) JNCIA
15 3 (1.08%) CCIE
16 2 (0.72%) CCSA
16 2 (0.72%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.32%) NIST
2 20 (7.17%) SLA
3 8 (2.87%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.15%) QA
5 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 5 (1.79%) NCSC
6 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 103 (36.92%) Active Directory
2 57 (20.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (12.19%) vSphere
4 33 (11.83%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (8.96%) Hyper-V
6 9 (3.23%) Docker
7 8 (2.87%) Firmware
8 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.36%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.36%) vCloud
10 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (10.04%) vCenter Server
2 26 (9.32%) ZABBIX
3 21 (7.53%) SCOM
4 20 (7.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (7.17%) Nagios
5 19 (6.81%) SCCM
6 16 (5.73%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (5.38%) Kubernetes
8 14 (5.02%) VxRail
9 13 (4.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (4.30%) Opsgenie
10 12 (4.30%) Terraform
11 11 (3.94%) Ansible
12 9 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (2.87%) Grafana
14 7 (2.51%) FortiGate
14 7 (2.51%) SolarWinds Orion
15 6 (2.15%) Icinga
15 6 (2.15%) WSUS
16 5 (1.79%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 129 (46.24%) Cisco
2 106 (37.99%) Microsoft
3 92 (32.97%) VMware
4 40 (14.34%) Veeam
5 39 (13.98%) NetApp
6 38 (13.62%) Citrix
6 38 (13.62%) Fortinet
7 36 (12.90%) Palo Alto
8 35 (12.54%) Meraki
9 27 (9.68%) Aruba
10 26 (9.32%) Tanium
10 26 (9.32%) Tripwire
11 25 (8.96%) HP
12 22 (7.89%) CheckPoint
12 22 (7.89%) Dell
13 21 (7.53%) LogicMonitor
14 20 (7.17%) Juniper
15 18 (6.45%) EMC
16 14 (5.02%) Oracle
17 13 (4.66%) F5