Solace Contracts in London

Solace
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 334 377 450
Rank change year-on-year +43 +73 +129
Contract jobs citing Solace 19 14 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.079% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.33% 0.19% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 32
10th Percentile £590 £719 £578
25th Percentile £600 £800 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £850 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +25.93% -5.26%
75th Percentile £751 £900 £741
90th Percentile £873 £1,110 £773
England median daily rate £725 £850 £650
% change year-on-year -14.71% +30.77% +12.07%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,695 7,227 10,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.39% 40.53% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,736 4,950 7,441
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £653 £663 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 138 127
10th Percentile £15.91 £13.86 £16.28
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%
75th Percentile £51.20 £36.56 £57.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £64.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Solace
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solace in London

Solace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Solace in London

Solace
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Solace in London

Solace
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +1 1 - -
Solace
England

Solace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

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