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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 708 723
Rank change year-on-year +78 +15 +403
Permanent jobs citing Solvency II 34 31 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.046% 0.011%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.45% 0.32% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile - £67,500 £101,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £103,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -30.23% +86.96%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £113,125
90th Percentile - - £115,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -30.23% +138.89%

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 7,527 9,651 7,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.04% 14.23% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,395 4,384 5,934
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,899 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +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
Top 5 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 5 November 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 +124 31 £70,000 -6.67% 28
London +72 30 £72,500 -25.64% 23
UK excluding London +61 4 £70,000 -6.67% 15
Scotland -9 3 - -
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 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (23.53%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) Azure
2 19 (55.88%) AWS
3 18 (52.94%) Amazon SageMaker
3 18 (52.94%) Azure AI
3 18 (52.94%) Vertex AI
4 8 (23.53%) IaaS
4 8 (23.53%) PaaS
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
General
1 26 (76.47%) Finance
2 18 (52.94%) Banking
2 18 (52.94%) Marketing
2 18 (52.94%) Pharmaceutical
2 18 (52.94%) Retail
3 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Dutch Language
3 8 (23.53%) French Language
3 8 (23.53%) Games
3 8 (23.53%) Law
4 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (79.41%) Lead
2 9 (26.47%) Architect
2 9 (26.47%) Lead Architect
3 8 (23.53%) IT Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Actuarial Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Data Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Lead Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 18 (52.94%) Life Science
1 18 (52.94%) Pharmacovigilance
2 8 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Analytics
2 19 (55.88%) AI
2 19 (55.88%) Data Science
2 19 (55.88%) Machine Learning
3 18 (52.94%) AI Transformation
3 18 (52.94%) Co-Creation
3 18 (52.94%) Collaborative Working
3 18 (52.94%) Computer Science
3 18 (52.94%) Conversational AI
3 18 (52.94%) Conversational UI
3 18 (52.94%) Customer Engagement
3 18 (52.94%) Demand Forecasting
3 18 (52.94%) Enterprise Architecture
3 18 (52.94%) Fraud Detection
3 18 (52.94%) Matrix Organization
3 18 (52.94%) Personalization
3 18 (52.94%) Presales
3 18 (52.94%) TOGAF
3 18 (52.94%) Use Case
3 18 (52.94%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) Python
1 2 (5.88%) R
1 2 (5.88%) SQL
1 2 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (76.47%) Degree
2 18 (52.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (52.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (55.88%) GDPR
2 18 (52.94%) EU AI Act
2 18 (52.94%) HIPAA
2 18 (52.94%) PSD2
3 14 (41.18%) IFRS
4 11 (32.35%) IFRS 17
5 5 (14.71%) GAAP
6 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) Google
2 10 (29.41%) SAP
3 8 (23.53%) Duck Creek
3 8 (23.53%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks