Solvency II Contracts

Solvency II
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Solvency II skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Solvency II over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 684 813
Rank change year-on-year +101 +129 -137
Contract jobs citing Solvency II 8 34 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.057% 0.046%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.13% 0.43% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 36
10th Percentile - £429 £488
25th Percentile £513 £516 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% +17.17%
75th Percentile - £650 £850
90th Percentile - £720 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £463
% change year-on-year - - -36.21%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Solvency II is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,171 7,924 11,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.30% 13.40% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 5,449 8,078
10th Percentile £297 £280 £299
25th Percentile £403 £411 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £623
90th Percentile £750 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +1.77% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 235 300
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.60 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.80 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.56% +27.27% +30.95%
75th Percentile £45.00 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £77.50 £67.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £33.39 £21.05
% change year-on-year -46.08% +58.60% +0.12%

Solvency II
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solvency II in the UK

Solvency II
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Solvency II in the UK

Solvency II
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +87 8 £600 - 16
London +80 7 £600 - 12
Work from Home +126 3 £525 -2.33% 4
UK excluding London +61 1 - - 5
Midlands +28 1 - -
West Midlands +24 1 - -

Solvency II
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 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Eclipse
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modeller
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Finance Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Conceptual Models
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Epics
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) User Stories
2 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
3 1 (12.50%) Business Case
3 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Identification
3 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) IFRS
1 7 (87.50%) IFRS 17
2 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Guidewire