Solvency II Contract Job Trends in the North West

Solvency II
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Solvency II skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Solvency II 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.036% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - -
England median daily rate £519 £738 £563
% change year-on-year -29.69% +31.11% +2.27%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 385 280 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.88% 13.60% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 175 253
10th Percentile £311 £291 £288
25th Percentile £361 £361 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £581
90th Percentile £641 £675 £694
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 55
10th Percentile £26.48 £16.16 £11.31
25th Percentile £41.53 £20.83 £13.52
Median hourly rate £53.89 £24.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +121.01% +37.60% -58.31%
75th Percentile £63.40 £32.45 £36.32
90th Percentile £70.75 £62.63 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £31.76 £26.66
% change year-on-year -19.71% +19.13% -23.83%

Solvency II
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Solvency II job vacancy trend in the North West

Solvency II
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Solvency II.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Solvency II

Solvency II
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 21 February 2026. 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
Manchester - 1 £492 -
Solvency II
England

Solvency II
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks