Solvency II Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Solvency II
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Solvency II skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 - 404
Rank change year-on-year - - +72
Contract jobs citing Solvency II 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.023% - 0.005%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.14% - 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £514 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - -
75th Percentile £559 - -
90th Percentile £572 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £738 £600
% change year-on-year -28.81% +22.92% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,546 2,065 3,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.30% 16.27% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,240 1,313 1,955
10th Percentile £309 £206 £250
25th Percentile £402 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £582
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 141 305
10th Percentile £14.34 £16.23 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £30.58 £31.76 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% +58.25% -39.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £31.88 £23.09
% change year-on-year -12.36% +38.07% -39.24%

Solvency II
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Solvency II job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Solvency II
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Solvency II.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Solvency II

Solvency II
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 Solvency II within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 March 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
South East - 3 - - 6
North of England - 2 £537 - 2
North West - 2 £537 - 1
Solvency II
UK

Solvency II
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Operations Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Fund Accounting
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) IFRS
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks