The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Solr skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.701% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.136% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
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
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
287 278 253
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 22.35% 17.33% 23.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 156 104
Average daily rate £275 £325 £332
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £150 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £361 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 17
Average hourly rate £23.50 £11.50 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+104.34% -45.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.25 £11.00 £11.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Apache Solr
Yorkshire

Apache Solr
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Apache Solr Daily 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Leeds - 9 £300 -
Apache Solr
Yorkshire

Apache Solr
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) Web Services
1 9 (100.00%) Apache
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
1 9 (100.00%) Ruby
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
1 9 (100.00%) Git (software)
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) nginx
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon S3
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Bash shell
2 7 (77.78%) HTML5
2 7 (77.78%) hybris
2 7 (77.78%) BDD
2 7 (77.78%) MongoDB
2 7 (77.78%) Node.js
2 7 (77.78%) REST
2 7 (77.78%) CSS3
2 7 (77.78%) Spring
2 7 (77.78%) Maven
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) jQuery
2 7 (77.78%) Security Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Kanban
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (77.78%) Telecoms

Apache Solr
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) Web Services
2 7 (77.78%) HTML5
2 7 (77.78%) Node.js
2 7 (77.78%) REST
2 7 (77.78%) CSS3
2 7 (77.78%) Spring
2 7 (77.78%) jQuery
2 7 (77.78%) Hibernate
2 7 (77.78%) SOAP
2 7 (77.78%) J2EE
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) XML
3 2 (22.22%) XHTML
3 2 (22.22%) Lucene
3 2 (22.22%) Ajax
3 2 (22.22%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
3 2 (22.22%) LINQ
3 2 (22.22%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) Apache
2 7 (77.78%) nginx
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon S3
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Tomcat
2 7 (77.78%) Adobe CQ
2 7 (77.78%) Route 53
Business Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) HTTP
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
1 7 (77.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) MongoDB
1 7 (77.78%) MySQL
1 7 (77.78%) Redis
1 7 (77.78%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (22.22%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git (software)
2 7 (77.78%) Maven
2 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (77.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (77.78%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Client/Server
2 2 (22.22%) NHS
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) BDD
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) Security Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Kanban
2 7 (77.78%) SOA
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Ruby
2 7 (77.78%) Bash shell
2 7 (77.78%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) C++
2 7 (77.78%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) Perl
2 7 (77.78%) PHP
3 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
3 2 (22.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) hybris
1 7 (77.78%) Adobe
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle
1 7 (77.78%) Percona