The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Solr skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Solr
Rank 356 367 399
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +32
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 21 43 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.097% 0.160% 0.114%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.524% 0.985% 0.685%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 39 24
Average daily rate £305 £450 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.22% +13.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £400 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £443
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4011 4367 5254
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.54% 16.22% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2562 2707 3223
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 127 178
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.40 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.00 £41.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Apache Solr
England

Apache Solr
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London Apache Solr Daily Rate Trend

Apache Solr
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Apache Solr across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Apache Solr Daily Rate Histogram

Apache Solr
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Apache Solr across the London region.

London Apache Solr Hourly Rate Trend

Apache Solr
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Solr within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +19 2 £413 -9.58%
Apache Solr
England

Apache Solr
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 31 (54.39%) Java
2 24 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 23 (40.35%) PHP
3 23 (40.35%) Lucene
4 19 (33.33%) RESTful
5 18 (31.58%) Git (software)
5 18 (31.58%) MySQL
6 17 (29.82%) Apache
7 15 (26.32%) CSS
7 15 (26.32%) Hadoop
8 14 (24.56%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (24.56%) TDD
9 13 (22.81%) MVC
10 12 (21.05%) Ruby
10 12 (21.05%) NoSQL
11 11 (19.30%) Open Source
11 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
11 11 (19.30%) Python
12 10 (17.54%) Linux
12 10 (17.54%) Automated Testing
12 10 (17.54%) Zend
12 10 (17.54%) Analytics
12 10 (17.54%) Big Data
13 9 (15.79%) Varnish
13 9 (15.79%) BDD
13 9 (15.79%) jQuery
13 9 (15.79%) Symfony
13 9 (15.79%) Spring
13 9 (15.79%) Scrum
13 9 (15.79%) HTML

Apache Solr
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 23 (40.35%) Lucene
2 19 (33.33%) RESTful
3 15 (26.32%) CSS
4 9 (15.79%) jQuery
4 9 (15.79%) Symfony
4 9 (15.79%) Spring
4 9 (15.79%) HTML
5 8 (14.04%) Hibernate
6 7 (12.28%) HTML5
7 6 (10.53%) Ajax
7 6 (10.53%) JSON
7 6 (10.53%) SOAP
8 5 (8.772%) Memcached
8 5 (8.772%) CSS3
8 5 (8.772%) .NET
9 4 (7.018%) XML
9 4 (7.018%) XSLT
9 4 (7.018%) Gearman
10 3 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 3 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 17 (29.82%) Apache
2 7 (12.28%) Apache Pig
2 7 (12.28%) CMS
3 6 (10.53%) nginx
4 3 (5.263%) Amazon AWS
4 3 (5.263%) Drupal
5 2 (3.509%) Tomcat
5 2 (3.509%) Magento
5 2 (3.509%) Gunicorn
6 1 (1.754%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.754%) WordPress
6 1 (1.754%) Alfresco
6 1 (1.754%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.754%) Commerce Server
6 1 (1.754%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (1.754%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.754%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.754%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.58%) MySQL
2 15 (26.32%) Hadoop
3 12 (21.05%) NoSQL
4 10 (17.54%) Big Data
5 8 (14.04%) MongoDB
6 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
6 6 (10.53%) Sqoop
6 6 (10.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (8.772%) Apache Hive
8 4 (7.018%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (7.018%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (5.263%) Redis
9 3 (5.263%) SQL Server 2012
10 2 (3.509%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (3.509%) Data Mining
10 2 (3.509%) HBase
11 1 (1.754%) Hypertable
11 1 (1.754%) Pentaho
11 1 (1.754%) CouchDB
11 1 (1.754%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 18 (31.58%) Git (software)
2 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.772%) Selenium
4 4 (7.018%) Capistrano
4 4 (7.018%) Cucumber
4 4 (7.018%) WebDriver
5 3 (5.263%) Jasmine
6 2 (3.509%) Subversion
6 2 (3.509%) Ant
6 2 (3.509%) JBehave
6 2 (3.509%) PHPUnit
6 2 (3.509%) Phing
7 1 (1.754%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.754%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.754%) Mockito
7 1 (1.754%) Hudson
7 1 (1.754%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.754%) JUnit
7 1 (1.754%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.754%) JMeter
General
1 4 (7.018%) Publishing
2 2 (3.509%) Retail
2 2 (3.509%) Finance
3 1 (1.754%) Games
3 1 (1.754%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (73.68%) Developer
2 17 (29.82%) Java Developer
3 14 (24.56%) PHP Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.018%) .NET Developer
6 3 (5.263%) Ruby Developer
6 3 (5.263%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (5.263%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 3 (5.263%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.263%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.263%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.509%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.509%) Data Warehouse Architect
7 2 (3.509%) Architect
7 2 (3.509%) Administrator
7 2 (3.509%) Hadoop Developer
7 2 (3.509%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.754%) Drupal Developer
8 1 (1.754%) Front-End Developer
8 1 (1.754%) ScrumMaster
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Open Source
2 3 (5.263%) Social Media
2 3 (5.263%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.754%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.754%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.754%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.54%) Linux
2 5 (8.772%) Ubuntu
3 4 (7.018%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.263%) VMS
5 2 (3.509%) Gentoo
5 2 (3.509%) Debian
5 2 (3.509%) UNIX
5 2 (3.509%) Windows
5 2 (3.509%) Mac OS X
5 2 (3.509%) CentOS
5 2 (3.509%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.754%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) Continuous Integration
1 14 (24.56%) TDD
2 13 (22.81%) MVC
3 10 (17.54%) Automated Testing
3 10 (17.54%) Analytics
4 9 (15.79%) BDD
4 9 (15.79%) Scrum
4 9 (15.79%) SOA
5 7 (12.28%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (8.772%) Software Engineering
7 4 (7.018%) Change Management
7 4 (7.018%) Customer Intelligence
7 4 (7.018%) Load Testing
7 4 (7.018%) Unit Testing
8 3 (5.263%) Dependency Injection
8 3 (5.263%) E-Commerce
8 3 (5.263%) Identity Management
8 3 (5.263%) Content Management
8 3 (5.263%) Refactoring
9 2 (3.509%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 31 (54.39%) Java
2 24 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 23 (40.35%) PHP
4 12 (21.05%) Ruby
5 11 (19.30%) Python
6 5 (8.772%) PHP5
6 5 (8.772%) C#
7 4 (7.018%) SQL
7 4 (7.018%) Scala
8 3 (5.263%) C
9 2 (3.509%) Perl
9 2 (3.509%) Bash shell
9 2 (3.509%) Groovy
10 1 (1.754%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.754%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.754%) Security Cleared
1 1 (1.754%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.509%) QA
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Varnish
2 4 (7.018%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Zend
2 2 (3.509%) Oracle
2 2 (3.509%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.509%) Apple
3 1 (1.754%) Tableau
3 1 (1.754%) IBM
3 1 (1.754%) Cognos
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