The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Solr skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache Solr over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Solr
Rank 198 210 234
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +24
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 3 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.048% 0.039% 0.122%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.274% 0.256% 0.829%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
Average daily rate £400 £456 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.32% +15.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1093 1173 1447
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.36% 15.08% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 788 1031
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 35 63
Average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -3.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.00 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.20 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Apache Solr
London

Apache Solr
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Apache Solr Daily Rate Trend

Apache Solr
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 6 (66.67%) Java
1 6 (66.67%) Apache
2 5 (55.56%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) Lucene
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
3 3 (33.33%) MySQL
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) XML
4 2 (22.22%) JMS
4 2 (22.22%) SOA
4 2 (22.22%) IDOL
4 2 (22.22%) LAMP
4 2 (22.22%) Games
4 2 (22.22%) Extreme Programming
4 2 (22.22%) BDD
4 2 (22.22%) Apache Hive
4 2 (22.22%) Symfony
4 2 (22.22%) Zend
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Apache Pig
4 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (22.22%) Gearman
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Linux
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration

Apache Solr
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 5 (55.56%) Lucene
2 2 (22.22%) Symfony
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Gearman
2 2 (22.22%) XML
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) JMS
2 2 (22.22%) LAMP
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) XSD
3 1 (11.11%) XSLT
3 1 (11.11%) J2SE
3 1 (11.11%) JAX-RS
3 1 (11.11%) Memcached
3 1 (11.11%) Apache CXF
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Pig
3 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (11.11%) ESB
3 1 (11.11%) Drupal
3 1 (11.11%) WordPress
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) IDOL
2 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior PHP Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Media
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) TDD
2 3 (33.33%) MVC
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) BDD
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) Automated Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Web Development
4 1 (11.11%) Contact Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Varnish
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Zend