Solace Contract Job Trends in Central London

Solace
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of Solace products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Solace over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, 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 Solace Systems.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 125 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Solace 7 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.36% 0.21% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.74% 0.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £524 £785 -
25th Percentile £623 £800 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.82% - -
75th Percentile £684 £875 -
90th Percentile £688 - -
London median daily rate £650 £850 £650
% change year-on-year -23.53% +30.77% +4.00%

All Vendors
Central London

Solace 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 942 1,013 1,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.58% 43.42% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 666 953
10th Percentile £313 £339 £263
25th Percentile £408 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £657 £684
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.18% -3.41% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 8
10th Percentile £19.24 £16.50 £15.30
25th Percentile £22.88 £20.50 £16.90
Median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +30.12% -12.34%
75th Percentile £60.25 £92.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £64.84 £137.50 £60.35
London median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%

Solace
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Solace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Solace in Central London

Solace
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Solace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Solace

Solace
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solace in Central London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solace in Central London

Solace
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solace within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
City of London +12 7 £648 -23.82% 1
Solace
London

Solace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Investment Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (85.71%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (14.29%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (71.43%) Fixed Income
2 5 (71.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 7 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 6 (85.71%) Machine Learning
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
3 5 (71.43%) Algorithmic Trading
3 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (71.43%) Data Science
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) High-Frequency Trading
3 5 (71.43%) Project Management
3 5 (71.43%) RBAC
3 5 (71.43%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) ITRS Geneos
1 6 (85.71%) Kibana
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (85.71%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Sybase
1 1 (14.29%) TIBCO