Solvency II Job Trends

Solvency II
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Solvency II skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 637 807
Rank change year-on-year -25 +170 +164
Permanent jobs citing Solvency II 35 5 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.012% 0.029%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.40% 0.075% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 13
10th Percentile £65,000 - £48,500
25th Percentile £70,625 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - +30.43%
75th Percentile £98,125 £79,375 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £82,750 £114,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £87,500 £75,000 £127,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -41.18% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Solvency II falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,749 6,681 12,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.37% 16.24% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,977 3,767 8,863
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,580 £27,300
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,520
Median % change year-on-year - +14.24% -8.66%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £53,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +11.58% -5.00%

Solvency II
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Solvency II job vacancy trend in the UK

Solvency II
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Solvency II.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Solvency II

Solvency II
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solvency II over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Solvency II in the UK

Solvency II
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solvency II within the UK over the 6 months to 25 March 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 -19 34 £85,000 +13.33% 15
London +23 32 £85,000 +6.25% 13
Work from Home +10 2 £105,000 +40.00% 7
UK excluding London -57 2 £87,500 +16.67% 8
North of England - 1 £105,000 - 2
North West - 1 £105,000 - 1
South West - 1 £70,000 -

Solvency II
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) SAP FS
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 26 (74.29%) Azure
2 21 (60.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 21 (60.00%) AWS
2 21 (60.00%) Azure AI
2 21 (60.00%) Vertex AI
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Functions
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (8.57%) IaaS
3 3 (8.57%) PaaS
3 3 (8.57%) Serverless
3 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.57%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) ER Studio
1 1 (2.86%) ERwin
1 1 (2.86%) PowerDesigner
1 1 (2.86%) TestDirector
General
1 30 (85.71%) Finance
2 21 (60.00%) Banking
2 21 (60.00%) Marketing
2 21 (60.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 21 (60.00%) Retail
3 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Dutch Language
5 3 (8.57%) French Language
5 3 (8.57%) Games
5 3 (8.57%) Law
6 2 (5.71%) Billing
7 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (85.71%) Lead
2 3 (8.57%) Analyst
2 3 (8.57%) Architect
2 3 (8.57%) IT Architect
2 3 (8.57%) Lead Architect
3 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
3 2 (5.71%) Data Modeller
4 1 (2.86%) Actuarial Analyst
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Project Analyst
4 1 (2.86%) Senior
4 1 (2.86%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (60.00%) Life Science
1 21 (60.00%) Pharmacovigilance
2 6 (17.14%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.43%) Reinsurance
4 3 (8.57%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.71%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) Analytics
2 25 (71.43%) AI
3 22 (62.86%) Collaborative Working
3 22 (62.86%) Machine Learning
3 22 (62.86%) Presales
3 22 (62.86%) TOGAF
4 21 (60.00%) AI Transformation
4 21 (60.00%) Co-Creation
4 21 (60.00%) Computer Science
4 21 (60.00%) Conversational AI
4 21 (60.00%) Conversational UI
4 21 (60.00%) Customer Engagement
4 21 (60.00%) Data Science
4 21 (60.00%) Demand Forecasting
4 21 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 21 (60.00%) Fraud Detection
4 21 (60.00%) Matrix Organization
4 21 (60.00%) Personalization
4 21 (60.00%) Use Case
4 21 (60.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) SQL
2 3 (8.57%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) R
3 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (68.57%) Degree
2 21 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (60.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (65.71%) GDPR
2 21 (60.00%) EU AI Act
2 21 (60.00%) HIPAA
2 21 (60.00%) PSD2
3 7 (20.00%) IFRS
3 7 (20.00%) IFRS 17
4 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.86%) GRC
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) Google
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
2 4 (11.43%) SAP
3 3 (8.57%) Duck Creek
3 3 (8.57%) Guidewire
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Sparx