Solvency II Contract Job Trends in England

Solvency II
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Solvency II skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 491 554
Rank change year-on-year -26 +63 +150
Contract jobs citing Solvency II 20 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.064% 0.017% 0.019%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.37% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 3
10th Percentile £420 £446 £533
25th Percentile £500 £561 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £831 £669
90th Percentile - £933 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% -3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Solvency II falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,462 4,068 5,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.35% 14.08% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,539 2,376 3,615
10th Percentile £313 £266 £325
25th Percentile £406 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 158 215
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.70 £14.22
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.22 £20.29
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.11 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% -16.26% +59.88%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £83.34
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -10.18% -21.13% +57.88%

Solvency II
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Solvency II relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Solvency II job vacancy trend in England

Solvency II
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Solvency II.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Solvency II

Solvency II
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solvency II in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solvency II in England

Solvency II
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 Solvency II within the England region over the 6 months to 20 December 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 +13 17 £575 -17.86% 2
South East - 3 - - 1
Solvency II
UK

Solvency II
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Alation
1 2 (10.00%) Collibra
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Metadata
2 3 (15.00%) Data Vault
2 3 (15.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) SAP BW
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) ERwin
1 1 (5.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 18 (90.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Aviation
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Data Modeller
3 3 (15.00%) Operations Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Data Governance Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Insight Manager
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Reinsurance
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (10.00%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) FMCG
4 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (40.00%) Analytics
2 8 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 5 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 4 (20.00%) Business Case
6 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (20.00%) Data Management
6 4 (20.00%) Model Validation
6 4 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (15.00%) DAMA
7 3 (15.00%) DAMA DMBOK
7 3 (15.00%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) GDPR
2 6 (30.00%) IFRS
3 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (10.00%) IFRS 17
5 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (5.00%) GRC
5 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (5.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Informatica
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) SAP