The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Solr skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Apache Solr over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Solr
Rank 293 318 326
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +8
Permanent jobs citing Apache Solr 30 5 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.250% 0.038% 0.063%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.329% 0.202% 0.397%
Number of salaries quoted 29 5 10
Average salary £55,500 £35,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+58.57% -26.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,500 £25,000 £44,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £42,000 £56,500
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
All Application Platforms
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
2257 2473 2520
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 18.80% 18.78% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1989 2290 2317
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £33,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
Apache Solr
London

Apache Solr
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Apache Solr across the City of London region.

City of London Apache Solr Salary Trend

Apache Solr
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Apache Solr across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Apache Solr Salary Histogram

Apache Solr
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Apache Solr.

1 39 (60.00%) Java
2 38 (58.46%) Apache
3 31 (47.69%) Linux
4 27 (41.54%) Lucene
5 22 (33.85%) MySQL
5 22 (33.85%) E-Commerce
5 22 (33.85%) jQuery
6 21 (32.31%) MVC
6 21 (32.31%) JavaScript
7 20 (30.77%) XML
7 20 (30.77%) Spring
8 19 (29.23%) Maven
9 18 (27.69%) Hibernate
9 18 (27.69%) UNIX
9 18 (27.69%) SQL Server
10 17 (26.15%) Ant
10 17 (26.15%) CSS
10 17 (26.15%) Spring MVC
11 16 (24.62%) HTML
11 16 (24.62%) Eclipse
12 15 (23.08%) J2EE
12 15 (23.08%) ESB
12 15 (23.08%) TDD
13 14 (21.54%) Retail
13 14 (21.54%) Struts
13 14 (21.54%) Tomcat
13 14 (21.54%) WebLogic
13 14 (21.54%) ATG
13 14 (21.54%) JPA
13 14 (21.54%) Open Source

Apache Solr
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Apache Solr. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (41.54%) Lucene
2 22 (33.85%) jQuery
3 20 (30.77%) XML
3 20 (30.77%) Spring
4 18 (27.69%) Hibernate
5 17 (26.15%) CSS
5 17 (26.15%) Spring MVC
6 16 (24.62%) HTML
7 15 (23.08%) J2EE
8 14 (21.54%) Struts
8 14 (21.54%) JPA
9 13 (20.00%) Ajax
10 12 (18.46%) JSP
10 12 (18.46%) Servlets
11 10 (15.38%) Django
12 9 (13.85%) Sass
12 9 (13.85%) WebSphere
13 7 (10.77%) HTML5
14 6 (9.231%) Web Services
15 5 (7.692%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 38 (58.46%) Apache
2 15 (23.08%) ESB
3 14 (21.54%) Tomcat
3 14 (21.54%) WebLogic
4 13 (20.00%) CMS
5 3 (4.615%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.615%) nginx
5 3 (4.615%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (3.077%) Confluence
6 2 (3.077%) Drupal
7 1 (1.538%) ColdFusion
Business Applications
1 2 (3.077%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.538%) OpenVPN
1 1 (1.538%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.85%) MySQL
2 18 (27.69%) SQL Server
3 13 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 13 (20.00%) IDOL
4 12 (18.46%) DB2
5 7 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (9.231%) Big Data
7 4 (6.154%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (6.154%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (6.154%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.615%) Redis
8 3 (4.615%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (3.077%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (3.077%) OLAP
9 2 (3.077%) OLTP
10 1 (1.538%) Infinispan
10 1 (1.538%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Maven
2 17 (26.15%) Ant
3 16 (24.62%) Eclipse
4 11 (16.92%) JUnit
5 8 (12.31%) Subversion
6 5 (7.692%) Git (software)
7 3 (4.615%) GitHub
8 2 (3.077%) JIRA
8 2 (3.077%) JMeter
8 2 (3.077%) Hudson
9 1 (1.538%) Mercurial
9 1 (1.538%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.538%) Jenkins
9 1 (1.538%) Rhino Mocks
9 1 (1.538%) Capistrano
9 1 (1.538%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.538%) Selenium
General
1 14 (21.54%) Retail
2 6 (9.231%) Finance
3 5 (7.692%) Marketing
4 3 (4.615%) Games
5 2 (3.077%) Back Office
6 1 (1.538%) Legal
Job Titles
1 51 (78.46%) Developer
2 25 (38.46%) Java Developer
3 14 (21.54%) Senior Developer
4 13 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Python Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Django Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Python/Django Developer
6 6 (9.231%) Web Developer
7 5 (7.692%) E-Commerce Web Developer
8 4 (6.154%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 4 (6.154%) Technical Architect
8 4 (6.154%) Lead Developer
8 4 (6.154%) Architect
9 3 (4.615%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.077%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 2 (3.077%) Financial Services Business Analyst
10 2 (3.077%) .NET Developer
10 2 (3.077%) PHP Developer
10 2 (3.077%) C# Developer
10 2 (3.077%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Open Source
2 4 (6.154%) Ontologies
2 4 (6.154%) Computer Science
2 4 (6.154%) Semantic Web
3 3 (4.615%) Social Media
3 3 (4.615%) Blog
4 2 (3.077%) IaaS
5 1 (1.538%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.538%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (1.538%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.538%) W3C
5 1 (1.538%) Statistics
5 1 (1.538%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (47.69%) Linux
2 18 (27.69%) UNIX
3 2 (3.077%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.077%) Debian
4 1 (1.538%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) E-Commerce
2 21 (32.31%) MVC
3 15 (23.08%) TDD
4 12 (18.46%) CRM
4 12 (18.46%) ERP
4 12 (18.46%) SOA
5 10 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (12.31%) Web Development
6 8 (12.31%) UML
6 8 (12.31%) Multithreading
6 8 (12.31%) Integration Testing
7 6 (9.231%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (7.692%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (7.692%) Scrum
9 4 (6.154%) OO
9 4 (6.154%) Workflow
9 4 (6.154%) Configuration Management
9 4 (6.154%) RDF
10 3 (4.615%) Video Processing
10 3 (4.615%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.00%) Java
2 21 (32.31%) JavaScript
3 12 (18.46%) SQL
4 11 (16.92%) Python
5 7 (10.77%) PHP
6 5 (7.692%) C++
6 5 (7.692%) C
7 4 (6.154%) XQuery
7 4 (6.154%) SPARQL
7 4 (6.154%) Scala
8 3 (4.615%) Bash shell
8 3 (4.615%) C#
9 2 (3.077%) Ruby
9 2 (3.077%) Groovy
10 1 (1.538%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (6.154%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.077%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.077%) Varnish
2 1 (1.538%) Postfix
2 1 (1.538%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.538%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Puppet
2 4 (6.154%) Vagrant
Vendors
1 14 (21.54%) ATG
1 14 (21.54%) hybris
1 14 (21.54%) Demandware
2 13 (20.00%) Oracle
3 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
4 9 (13.85%) Venda
5 5 (7.692%) Intershop
6 4 (6.154%) Endeca
7 1 (1.538%) Joyent
7 1 (1.538%) Rackspace
7 1 (1.538%) Red Hat
City of London
Essential skills include: Strong Java, J2EE developement experience. Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat/JBoss. Web Services - Rest or Soap. XML technologies - XSLT, Spath, XQuery... Scala... Ant, Maven. Json, CSS, HTML5.
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 6 June 2013
City of London
They will be developed using service oriented architecture, written mostly in portable and modern C++. The successful software developer will work closely with the business team to understand...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £60000 - £100000 per annum
Posted: 28 May 2013
City, London
Previous experience of submitting open source programmes to GitHub will be looked upon favourably alongside previous experience of any of the following technologies: BDD, Maven, Subversion, Hudson, Linux,...
Experis IT
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Experience of Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development would be an advantage - Experience in other open source technologies such as Memcached, Varnish, Apache SOLR, MongoDB, ActiveMQ or...
Consulting Point
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + benefits package
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
C++ Developer / C++ Software Engineer London c£150k... As a C++ Developer you will design and develop search indexing and retrieval technologies to run on a distributed multi-...
Client Server
Salary: £100k to £150k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013