The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Solr skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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 32 24 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.472% 0.474% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.846% 4.167% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
26 24 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 12.26% 11.37% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 8
Average daily rate £408 £330 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.48% -12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £203 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £548 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 £18.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+80.55% +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Apache Solr
East Midlands

Apache Solr
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire Apache Solr Jobs Demand Trend

Apache Solr
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Zend
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit

Apache Solr
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Zend