Solace Contracts in England

Solace
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 522 595
Rank change year-on-year +56 +73 +164
Contract jobs citing Solace 19 20 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.054% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.13% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 45
10th Percentile £590 £444 £440
25th Percentile £600 £713 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £850 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +30.77% +12.07%
75th Percentile £751 £900 £700
90th Percentile £873 £1,020 £750
UK median daily rate £718 £850 £700
% change year-on-year -15.59% +21.43% +18.64%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Solace
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solace in England

Solace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solace in England.

Daily rate trend for Solace in England

Solace
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solace in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solace in England

Solace
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solace within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +43 19 £725 -14.71% 15
Solace
UK

Solace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
1 4 (21.05%) Kong
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) BGP
1 3 (15.79%) MPLS
1 3 (15.79%) Network Security
1 3 (15.79%) OSPF
1 3 (15.79%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (15.79%) VPN
2 2 (10.53%) HSRP
2 2 (10.53%) LAN
2 2 (10.53%) VXLAN
2 2 (10.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (31.58%) MongoDB
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (21.05%) Hazelcast
4 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) Maven
1 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
1 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Banking
2 7 (36.84%) Front Office
3 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Billing
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Senior
2 10 (52.63%) Senior Developer
3 7 (36.84%) Java Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Flex Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
8 1 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Grid Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Messaging Specialist
8 1 (5.26%) React Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (26.32%) .NET
2 5 (26.32%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
3 4 (21.05%) Entity Framework
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) React
5 1 (5.26%) Compass CSS Framework
5 1 (5.26%) Guice
5 1 (5.26%) HTML
5 1 (5.26%) HTML5
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) Kafka
5 1 (5.26%) Redux
5 1 (5.26%) RxJS
5 1 (5.26%) SignalR
5 1 (5.26%) Vue
5 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
5 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) State Machine
2 4 (21.05%) Derivative
3 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Market Risk
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Low Latency
2 6 (31.58%) Electronic Trading
2 6 (31.58%) Order Management
2 6 (31.58%) Smart Order Routing
3 5 (26.32%) Concurrent Programming
3 5 (26.32%) Multithreading
4 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) Migration
4 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) ITIL
5 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
5 3 (15.79%) Service Management
5 3 (15.79%) Test Strategy
5 3 (15.79%) Validation
6 2 (10.53%) Service-Level Objective
7 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (5.26%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) C#
3 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
3 4 (21.05%) RPG
3 4 (21.05%) RPG IV
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) TIBCO
2 6 (31.58%) ION Trading
3 3 (15.79%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) Murex
4 2 (10.53%) Arista
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco
4 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
4 2 (10.53%) Juniper
4 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.26%) Google
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.26%) Sybase