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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 496 597
Rank change year-on-year +16 +101 +167
Contract jobs citing Solace 32 28 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.084% 0.045%
As % of the Vendors category 0.24% 0.19% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 10
10th Percentile £456 £700 £608
25th Percentile £510 £775 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £850 £675
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +25.93% -8.47%
75th Percentile £800 £925 £784
90th Percentile £813 £1,200 £804
UK median daily rate £675 £825 £650
% change year-on-year -18.18% +26.92% -11.86%

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 13,065 14,534 19,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.27% 43.62% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,265 9,256 13,011
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £621 £628 £650
90th Percentile £719 £735 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 658 755 572
10th Percentile £14.69 £13.69 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.51 £15.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -14.29% +55.56%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.05 £59.33
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £74.94
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -13.28% -26.77% +80.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +24 31 £675 -20.59% 13
East Midlands - 1 £270 -
Midlands - 1 £270 -
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 5 (15.63%) AWS
1 5 (15.63%) GitHub
2 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Multicast
2 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.25%) tcpdump
3 2 (6.25%) Wireshark
4 1 (3.13%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.13%) SSH
4 1 (3.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) GCC
2 6 (18.75%) GDB
3 3 (9.38%) Maven
4 2 (6.25%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.13%) Git
5 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (56.25%) Banking
2 17 (53.13%) Social Skills
3 13 (40.63%) Finance
4 12 (37.50%) Front Office
5 11 (34.38%) Investment Banking
6 6 (18.75%) International Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Billing
7 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Applications Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 5 (15.63%) .NET Developer
4 5 (15.63%) C++ Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Cloud Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Developer
7 2 (6.25%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Electronic Trading Support
8 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Messaging Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (75.00%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (40.63%) Middleware
3 7 (21.88%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (18.75%) .NET
4 6 (18.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 6 (18.75%) STL
5 5 (15.63%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (12.50%) .NET Framework
6 4 (12.50%) Entity Framework
7 3 (9.38%) JSON
7 3 (9.38%) Kafka
7 3 (9.38%) MyBatis
7 3 (9.38%) REST
7 3 (9.38%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (9.38%) XML
8 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.13%) J2EE
8 1 (3.13%) React
8 1 (3.13%) SignalR
8 1 (3.13%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (40.63%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (21.88%) Cloud Native
4 6 (18.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (18.75%) Fixed Income
5 5 (15.63%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (12.50%) Clustering
6 4 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (9.38%) Replication
8 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
8 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
9 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (3.13%) State Machine
9 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
9 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (68.75%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) Low Latency
2 21 (65.63%) Electronic Trading
3 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (37.50%) DevOps
3 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (28.13%) High Availability
5 8 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
5 8 (25.00%) Observability
6 7 (21.88%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (21.88%) Data Science
6 7 (21.88%) Event-Driven
6 7 (21.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (21.88%) High-Frequency Trading
6 7 (21.88%) Machine Learning
6 7 (21.88%) RBAC
7 6 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (18.75%) Multithreading
7 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (18.75%) Risk Management
7 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) PowerShell
3 7 (21.88%) SQL
4 6 (18.75%) Bash
4 6 (18.75%) C#
4 6 (18.75%) C++
4 6 (18.75%) Java
5 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.50%) RPG
5 4 (12.50%) RPG IV
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (43.75%) ITRS Geneos
2 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (21.88%) Kibana
3 7 (21.88%) logstash
3 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.38%) Grafana
5 1 (3.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) TIBCO
2 4 (12.50%) Bloomberg
2 4 (12.50%) Refinitiv
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle