Solace Contracts in the UK excluding London

Solace
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 378 417
Rank change year-on-year +39 +39 +80
Contract jobs citing Solace 1 7 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.034% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.016% 0.081% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 28
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile £260 £430 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £442 £725
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% -39.10% +47.81%
75th Percentile £280 £496 £750
90th Percentile - £573 -
UK median daily rate £690 £850 £680
% change year-on-year -18.82% +25.00% +15.25%

All Vendors
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,385 8,609 10,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.15% 42.37% 44.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 5,195 6,976
10th Percentile £213 £206 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 961 456
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.89 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.88 £21.46 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -36.88% +81.82%
75th Percentile £56.12 £58.70 £60.84
90th Percentile £71.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.40 £21.50 £40.55
% change year-on-year +18.14% -46.97% +88.58%

Solace
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solace in the UK excluding London

Solace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Solace in the UK excluding London

Solace
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
East Midlands - 1 £270 - 1
Midlands - 1 £270 - 1
Solace
UK

Solace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle