The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Solr skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache Solr over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Bristol region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Solr
Rank 47 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.564% 0.239% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.632% 1.299% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £275 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.76% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
114 154 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 21.43% 18.42% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 99 46
Average daily rate £311 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.07% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £179 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £438 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 5
Average hourly rate £14.00 £23.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.13% +64.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £26.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Apache Solr
South West

Apache Solr
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Apache Solr across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bristol Apache Solr Jobs Demand Trend

Apache Solr
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Apache Solr across the Bristol region.

Bristol Apache Solr Daily Rate Trend

Apache Solr
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Apache Solr also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Apache Solr.

1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (75.00%) CMS
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) Drupal
1 3 (75.00%) Git (software)
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (25.00%) MarkLogic
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Mule
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Grails
2 1 (25.00%) MVC

Apache Solr
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Apache Solr also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Apache Solr. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (75.00%) CMS
1 3 (75.00%) Drupal
2 1 (25.00%) Mule
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (25.00%) OO
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle