Hybrid/Remote Solace Contract Job Trends

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 22 September 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 320 421
Rank change year-on-year +14 +101 +167
Contract jobs citing Solace 11 10 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.080% 0.015%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.18% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 3
10th Percentile £513 £274 -
25th Percentile £519 £566 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £813 £1,200 £675
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% +4.00%

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 4,467 5,515 8,980
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 46.32% 43.97% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,368 5,935
10th Percentile £325 £325 £324
25th Percentile £419 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £645
90th Percentile £716 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 104 205
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.92 £16.54
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.38 £24.50
Median hourly rate £34.48 £40.78 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% -22.32% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £77.13 £78.17
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.87% -30.34% +86.11%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Solace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Solace

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 22 September 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 4 (36.36%) GitHub
1 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Multicast
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Maven
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Messaging Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Messaging Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (27.27%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) Middleware
2 3 (27.27%) MyBatis
2 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) Ultra Messaging
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (36.36%) Clustering
2 4 (36.36%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (36.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
4 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
1 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
1 5 (45.45%) Low Latency
1 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Electronic Trading
2 4 (36.36%) Garbage Collection
2 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (9.09%) Observability
5 1 (9.09%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) ITRS Geneos
2 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Kibana
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Bloomberg
1 4 (36.36%) Refinitiv
2 1 (9.09%) TIBCO