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 23 August 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
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 527 640
Rank change year-on-year +8 +113 +193
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Solace 34 37 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.095% 0.041%
As % of the Vendors category 0.22% 0.22% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 9
10th Percentile £456 £418 £613
25th Percentile £511 £497 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.19% +23.08% -11.86%
75th Percentile £800 £875 £788
90th Percentile £813 £953 £821
UK excluding London median daily rate £270 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -40.00% -21.74% +9.52%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,641 16,913 22,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.36% 43.62% 44.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,534 10,477 14,862
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 795 676
10th Percentile £14.42 £13.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -31.25% +81.82%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £64.43
90th Percentile £67.60 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.26 £25.60 £32.32
% change year-on-year -16.95% -20.79% +63.15%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Solace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Solace

Solace
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solace over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solace in the UK

Solace
Top 6 DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +12 31 £675 -20.59% 8
London +14 30 £675 -20.59% 8
Work from Home +10 9 £690 -13.75% 9
UK excluding London -5 1 £270 -40.00% 6
East Midlands - 1 £270 -
Midlands - 1 £270 -

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 7 (20.59%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) GitHub
3 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Multicast
2 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.88%) tcpdump
3 2 (5.88%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.94%) SSH
4 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.65%) GCC
2 6 (17.65%) GDB
3 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 3 (8.82%) Maven
4 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
4 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 18 (52.94%) Banking
2 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (44.12%) Finance
4 12 (35.29%) Investment Banking
5 11 (32.35%) Front Office
6 6 (17.65%) International Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Billing
7 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) .NET Developer
3 5 (14.71%) C++ Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Developer
6 2 (5.88%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Messaging Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Middleware Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Messaging Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (67.65%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (38.24%) Middleware
3 7 (20.59%) .NET
3 7 (20.59%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (20.59%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (17.65%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 6 (17.65%) STL
5 5 (14.71%) Kafka
6 4 (11.76%) .NET Framework
6 4 (11.76%) Entity Framework
7 3 (8.82%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (8.82%) JSON
7 3 (8.82%) MyBatis
7 3 (8.82%) REST
7 3 (8.82%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (8.82%) XML
8 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
8 2 (5.88%) React
8 2 (5.88%) RxJS
8 2 (5.88%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 16 (47.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (44.12%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (20.59%) Cloud Native
4 6 (17.65%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (17.65%) Fixed Income
5 5 (14.71%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (11.76%) Clustering
6 4 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
7 3 (8.82%) Replication
8 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
8 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
9 1 (2.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (64.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Low Latency
2 20 (58.82%) Electronic Trading
3 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 12 (35.29%) DevOps
3 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (26.47%) High Availability
5 8 (23.53%) Algorithmic Trading
5 8 (23.53%) Observability
6 7 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (20.59%) Data Science
6 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven
6 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (20.59%) High-Frequency Trading
6 7 (20.59%) Machine Learning
6 7 (20.59%) RBAC
7 6 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
7 6 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (17.65%) Risk Management
7 6 (17.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
3 8 (23.53%) C#
4 7 (20.59%) SQL
5 6 (17.65%) Bash
5 6 (17.65%) C++
6 5 (14.71%) Java
7 4 (11.76%) PL/SQL
7 4 (11.76%) RPG
7 4 (11.76%) RPG IV
8 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) ITRS Geneos
2 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
3 7 (20.59%) Kibana
3 7 (20.59%) logstash
3 7 (20.59%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.82%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) TIBCO
2 4 (11.76%) Bloomberg
2 4 (11.76%) Refinitiv
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle