Solace Contracts

Solace
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 500 558 637
Rank change year-on-year +58 +79 +183
Contract jobs citing Solace 20 24 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.055% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.13% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 68
10th Percentile £592 £453 £445
25th Percentile £600 £575 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £718 £850 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% +21.43% +18.64%
75th Percentile £751 £875 £750
90th Percentile £867 £900 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £442 £750
% change year-on-year - -41.13% +51.52%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Solace
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solace in the UK

Solace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Solace in the UK

Solace
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Solace in the UK

Solace
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 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
England +56 19 £725 -14.71% 16
London +43 19 £725 -14.71% 13
Work from Home +42 7 £690 -4.83% 10

Solace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (20.00%) AWS
1 4 (20.00%) Kong
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) BGP
1 3 (15.00%) MPLS
1 3 (15.00%) Network Security
1 3 (15.00%) OSPF
1 3 (15.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) HSRP
2 2 (10.00%) LAN
2 2 (10.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (35.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (20.00%) Hazelcast
4 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Maven
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Banking
3 7 (35.00%) Front Office
4 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Senior
2 10 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Flex Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (20.00%) .NET Developer
6 3 (15.00%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
7 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Grid Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Messaging Specialist
8 1 (5.00%) React Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) .NET
1 6 (30.00%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (20.00%) Entity Framework
4 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.00%) React
5 2 (10.00%) Compass CSS Framework
5 2 (10.00%) Redux
5 2 (10.00%) RxJS
5 2 (10.00%) SignalR
6 1 (5.00%) Guice
6 1 (5.00%) HTML
6 1 (5.00%) HTML5
6 1 (5.00%) JSON
6 1 (5.00%) Kafka
6 1 (5.00%) Vue
6 1 (5.00%) WebSockets
6 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) State Machine
2 4 (20.00%) Derivative
3 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Low Latency
2 6 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
2 6 (30.00%) Order Management
2 6 (30.00%) Smart Order Routing
3 5 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 5 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Service Management
5 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Validation
6 2 (10.00%) Asynchronous Programming
6 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (10.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) C#
3 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (20.00%) RPG
3 4 (20.00%) RPG IV
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) TIBCO
2 6 (30.00%) ION Trading
3 3 (15.00%) IBM
3 3 (15.00%) Murex
4 2 (10.00%) Arista
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (10.00%) Juniper
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) Sybase