Solace Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Solace
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 297 339 458
Rank change year-on-year +42 +119 +155
Contract jobs citing Solace 7 6 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.039% 0.073%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.092% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 16
10th Percentile - £585 £440
25th Percentile £600 £713 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £800 £1,200 £694
90th Percentile £900 £1,275 £750
UK median daily rate £718 £850 £700
% change year-on-year -15.59% +21.43% +18.64%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Solace
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Solace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Solace trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Solace
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Solace.

Solace daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Solace
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Solace daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Solace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (100.00%) Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Front Office
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Flex Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) Compass CSS Framework
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Redux
2 2 (28.57%) RxJS
2 2 (28.57%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) State Machine
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Concurrent Programming
1 5 (71.43%) Electronic Trading
1 5 (71.43%) Low Latency
1 5 (71.43%) Multithreading
1 5 (71.43%) Order Management
1 5 (71.43%) Smart Order Routing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Asynchronous Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) ION Trading