Solace Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Solace
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 21 May 2026, 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Solace 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.19% - 1.61%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% - 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £430
75th Percentile - - £442
90th Percentile - - £448
South Yorkshire median daily rate - - £430

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 523 176 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 50.00% 53.33% 58.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 113 127
10th Percentile £367 £179 £385
25th Percentile £425 £352 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £556 £525 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £449 £475
% change year-on-year +11.48% -5.58% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £15.74 - £16.38
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.10 -
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.51 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -15.86% +16.65%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.87 £41.88
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.51 £22.00
% change year-on-year -9.94% -15.86% +16.65%

Solace
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Solace relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Solace job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Solace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Flyway
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) git-flow
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Liquibase
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Drools
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) Jasypt
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) Loki
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Log Aggregation
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PromQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Consul
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Zipkin