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 13 May 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 891 841
Rank change year-on-year +429 -50 +334
Permanent jobs citing Solace 265 10 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.010% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 1.28% 0.027% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 33
10th Percentile - £76,250 £88,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 £96,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £123,750 £127,188 £133,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £161,875 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £105,000 £120,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 20,678 36,373 42,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.35% 36.64% 41.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,870 24,973 24,289
10th Percentile £26,613 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

Solace
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solace in the UK

Solace
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Solace.

Salary trend for Solace in the UK

Solace
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solace over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Solace in the UK

Solace
Top 13 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 13 May 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
Work from Home +328 252 £135,000 +28.57% 14
UK excluding London +408 251 - - 12
England +357 216 £90,000 -32.08% 25
North of England - 116 - -
North West - 113 - -
Midlands - 63 - - 1
Scotland - 49 - -
East Midlands - 39 - - 1
West Midlands - 24 - -
East of England - 15 - -
London +106 13 £90,000 -32.08% 22
South East - 9 - - 9
North East - 3 - -

Solace
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:

Application Platforms
1 157 (59.25%) Confluence
2 4 (1.51%) Apache
2 4 (1.51%) GemFire
3 3 (1.13%) Mule
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.13%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 255 (96.23%) AWS
2 247 (93.21%) Azure
3 157 (59.25%) GCP
4 2 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (93.21%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.51%) Apache Ignite
3 4 (1.51%) InterSystems Cache
3 4 (1.51%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.51%) RDBMS
3 4 (1.51%) Redis
3 4 (1.51%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.38%) KDB
Development Applications
1 250 (94.34%) Bitbucket
2 248 (93.58%) Maven
3 247 (93.21%) Cucumber
3 247 (93.21%) GitLab
3 247 (93.21%) JIRA
3 247 (93.21%) Selenium
3 247 (93.21%) SonarQube
3 247 (93.21%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.51%) Git
5 3 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.38%) JUnit
6 1 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 254 (95.85%) Finance
2 250 (94.34%) Banking
3 247 (93.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (33.96%) Corporate Banking
4 90 (33.96%) Investment Banking
4 90 (33.96%) Retail
5 10 (3.77%) Front Office
6 3 (1.13%) Law
7 2 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.75%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 247 (93.21%) Software Engineer
2 10 (3.77%) Developer
2 10 (3.77%) Java Developer
3 6 (2.26%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 6 (2.26%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
3 6 (2.26%) Front Office Developer
4 5 (1.89%) Java Engineer
5 4 (1.51%) Java Server Engineer
5 4 (1.51%) Server Engineer
6 3 (1.13%) Lead
6 3 (1.13%) Lead Developer
6 3 (1.13%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Developer
7 2 (0.75%) Senior
8 1 (0.38%) Administrator
8 1 (0.38%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (0.38%) Messaging Administrator
8 1 (0.38%) Senior Developer
8 1 (0.38%) Senior Flex Developer
8 1 (0.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (96.23%) Spring
2 254 (95.85%) Kafka
3 248 (93.58%) React
3 248 (93.58%) Spring Boot
4 247 (93.21%) CSS
4 247 (93.21%) HTML
4 247 (93.21%) JPA
4 247 (93.21%) Redux
5 160 (60.38%) Hibernate
6 93 (35.09%) REST
7 90 (33.96%) CSS3
7 90 (33.96%) HTML5
7 90 (33.96%) Jest
7 90 (33.96%) RESTful
7 90 (33.96%) Sass
8 5 (1.89%) Middleware
9 4 (1.51%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.13%) SOAP
10 3 (1.13%) Web Services
10 3 (1.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 247 (93.21%) Enterprise Software
1 247 (93.21%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.02%) Fixed Income
3 5 (1.89%) Derivative
3 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.51%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.51%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.13%) Credit Derivative
5 3 (1.13%) Equities
6 1 (0.38%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.38%) State Machine
6 1 (0.38%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.89%) Linux
1 5 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (95.85%) Microservices
2 253 (95.47%) CI/CD
3 250 (94.34%) Agile
4 249 (93.96%) SDLC
5 248 (93.58%) DevOps
5 248 (93.58%) Test Automation
6 247 (93.21%) Containerisation
6 247 (93.21%) Front End Development
6 247 (93.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 247 (93.21%) Performance Optimisation
6 247 (93.21%) Software Engineering
7 161 (60.75%) TDD
8 157 (59.25%) Clean Code
8 157 (59.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (35.09%) Mentoring
10 90 (33.96%) Migration
10 90 (33.96%) Responsive Web Design
10 90 (33.96%) Strategic Thinking
10 90 (33.96%) User Experience
11 11 (4.15%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 262 (98.87%) Java
2 252 (95.09%) SQL
3 247 (93.21%) JavaScript
4 90 (33.96%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.13%) XQuery
6 1 (0.38%) Bash
6 1 (0.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (1.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (93.58%) QA
2 93 (35.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 250 (94.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 250 (94.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) Grafana
2 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (2.64%) Oracle
2 5 (1.89%) TIBCO
3 2 (0.75%) OpenLink
4 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.38%) ION Trading