Solace Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Solace
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 19 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 123 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Solace 7 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.24% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.81% 0.54% -
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £648 £850 -
% change year-on-year -23.82% - -

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 867 929 1,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.46% 44.13% 41.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 603 862
10th Percentile £321 £350 £310
25th Percentile £413 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -1.35% +1.36%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £739 £766 £788
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 8
10th Percentile £20.01 £16.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £23.31 £19.50 £16.90
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.48% +30.12% -1.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £60.35
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +5.56% +30.12% -12.34%

Solace
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solace in the City of London

Solace
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Solace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Solace

Solace
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solace in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solace in the City of London

Solace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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