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 14 February 2026, 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
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 684 791
Rank change year-on-year +34 +107 +93
Permanent jobs citing Solace 14 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.022% 0.009%
As % of the Vendors category 0.070% 0.057% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £88,625 - £88,750
25th Percentile £98,750 £85,000 £106,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £172,500 £95,000 £129,063
90th Percentile - - £161,875
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £110,000

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 19,899 19,251 28,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.67% 38.77% 38.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,053 9,803 22,256
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +12.75% -11.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -5.00%

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 14 February 2026.

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 14 February 2026. 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 +52 14 £100,000 +11.11% 12
London +39 14 £100,000 +11.11% 10
Work from Home - 6 £132,500 - 3

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 (21.43%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) GCP
1 3 (21.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Ignite
1 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Gradle
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
3 1 (7.14%) WinDbg
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 5 (35.71%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Fidessa Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Strategist
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Spring
2 7 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (35.71%) Kafka
4 4 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (28.57%) React
5 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (7.14%) STL
6 1 (7.14%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 2 (14.29%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Low Latency
2 4 (28.57%) AI
2 4 (28.57%) Algorithmic Trading
2 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 4 (28.57%) Concurrent Programming
2 4 (28.57%) Electronic Trading
2 4 (28.57%) JVM Tuning
2 4 (28.57%) Market Making
2 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
2 4 (28.57%) Order Management
2 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 4 (28.57%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 3 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
3 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (21.43%) Fintech
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.14%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google