Solace Job Trends

Solace
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Solace products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Solace over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Solace Systems.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 704 694
Rank change year-on-year +67 -10 +278
Permanent jobs citing Solace 7 12 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.022% 0.014%
As % of the Vendors category 0.036% 0.059% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile £117,250 £65,250 £74,000
25th Percentile £143,125 £81,563 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £165,000 £90,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £172,500 £99,375 £124,375
90th Percentile - £121,500 £141,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - £52,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year - -52.27% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,267 20,506 20,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.57% 36.97% 40.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10,935 10,669 15,854
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,296 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,500 £39,017
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,500 £77,250 £73,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,756 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -2.00%

Solace
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Solace relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Solace job vacancy trend in the UK

Solace
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Solace.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Solace

Solace
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solace over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Solace in the UK

Solace
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solace within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +64 7 £165,000 +83.33% 13
London +55 7 £165,000 +83.33% 11
Work from Home +75 3 £165,000 +32.00% 2

Solace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Ignite
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Fidessa Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
2 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 3 (42.86%) Kafka
3 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Equities
3 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
1 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Fintech
1 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) AI
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
2 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (14.29%) JVM Tuning
2 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
2 1 (14.29%) Market Making
2 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
2 1 (14.29%) Order Management
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google