The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Solr skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Solr
Rank 433 511 524
Rank change year-on-year
+78 +13
Permanent jobs citing Apache Solr 176 129 112
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.403% 0.240% 0.195%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.798% 1.121% 1.020%
Number of salaries quoted 148 107 102
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +2.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £37,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £64,500 £65,000 £62,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
% change year-on-year
-5.26% -2.56%
All Application Platforms
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
9790 11508 10977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 22.44% 21.39% 19.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8408 10126 9452
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Apache Solr
England

Apache Solr
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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

London Apache Solr Salary Trend

Apache Solr
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Apache Solr across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Apache Solr Salary Histogram

Apache Solr
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Solr within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +41 37 £55,250 +57.85%
Brentford +12 6 - -
Canary Wharf - 1 - -
Apache Solr
England

Apache Solr
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Apache Solr.

1 246 (58.85%) Java
2 198 (47.37%) Lucene
3 179 (42.82%) JavaScript
4 144 (34.45%) Linux
5 141 (33.73%) MySQL
6 139 (33.25%) Apache
7 129 (30.86%) Spring
8 126 (30.14%) HTML
9 119 (28.47%) CSS
10 118 (28.23%) MVC
11 105 (25.12%) MongoDB
12 101 (24.16%) jQuery
13 99 (23.68%) SQL
14 97 (23.21%) PHP
14 97 (23.21%) Open Source
15 92 (22.01%) E-Commerce
16 89 (21.29%) NoSQL
17 87 (20.81%) RESTful
18 85 (20.33%) Web Services
19 83 (19.86%) Agile Software Development
20 82 (19.62%) Hibernate
21 81 (19.38%) Hadoop
22 79 (18.90%) TDD
23 78 (18.66%) XML
23 78 (18.66%) OO
24 77 (18.42%) Git (software)
25 73 (17.46%) SOA
26 71 (16.99%) CMS
27 69 (16.51%) J2EE
27 69 (16.51%) Oracle

Apache Solr
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Apache Solr. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 198 (47.37%) Lucene
2 129 (30.86%) Spring
3 126 (30.14%) HTML
4 119 (28.47%) CSS
5 101 (24.16%) jQuery
6 87 (20.81%) RESTful
7 85 (20.33%) Web Services
8 82 (19.62%) Hibernate
9 78 (18.66%) XML
10 69 (16.51%) J2EE
11 63 (15.07%) LAMP
12 49 (11.72%) Spring MVC
13 47 (11.24%) HTML5
14 46 (11.00%) .NET
15 43 (10.29%) JPA
16 38 (9.091%) Memcached
17 36 (8.612%) ASP.NET
18 33 (7.895%) JSON
19 32 (7.656%) JSP
20 30 (7.177%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 139 (33.25%) Apache
2 71 (16.99%) CMS
3 63 (15.07%) Tomcat
4 53 (12.68%) Alfresco
5 47 (11.24%) Drupal
6 36 (8.612%) nginx
7 30 (7.177%) ActiveMQ
8 27 (6.459%) WebLogic
9 24 (5.742%) Amazon AWS
10 17 (4.067%) ESB
10 17 (4.067%) Joomla!
10 17 (4.067%) WordPress
11 16 (3.828%) SharePoint
12 15 (3.589%) IIS
13 14 (3.349%) WebLogic Portal
13 14 (3.349%) SharePoint Server
13 14 (3.349%) Adobe CQ
13 14 (3.349%) Liferay
13 14 (3.349%) Windows Azure
14 12 (2.871%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 14 (3.349%) MS Office
2 12 (2.871%) Weka
3 4 (0.957%) Google Apps
3 4 (0.957%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (3.349%) Google Analytics
1 14 (3.349%) SiteCatalyst
2 3 (0.718%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.306%) HTTP
2 14 (3.349%) Broadband
3 13 (3.110%) Firewall
4 10 (2.392%) Internet
5 8 (1.914%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.914%) DNS
6 5 (1.196%) SAN
6 5 (1.196%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.957%) Network Security
7 4 (0.957%) NAS
7 4 (0.957%) AMQP
7 4 (0.957%) RTSP
7 4 (0.957%) RTP
7 4 (0.957%) SSL
8 3 (0.718%) SSH
8 3 (0.718%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.478%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.478%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (33.73%) MySQL
2 105 (25.12%) MongoDB
3 89 (21.29%) NoSQL
4 81 (19.38%) Hadoop
5 59 (14.11%) SQL Server
6 56 (13.40%) Big Data
7 44 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (10.05%) Data Mining
9 26 (6.220%) Apache Cassandra
10 20 (4.785%) CouchDB
11 17 (4.067%) SQL Server 2008
12 16 (3.828%) Redis
13 15 (3.589%) HBase
13 15 (3.589%) SQL Server 2005
14 13 (3.110%) IDOL
15 12 (2.871%) RDBMS
15 12 (2.871%) DB2
15 12 (2.871%) Mahout
16 9 (2.153%) Text Mining
17 6 (1.435%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 77 (18.42%) Git (software)
2 44 (10.53%) Maven
3 27 (6.459%) Ant
4 26 (6.220%) JUnit
4 26 (6.220%) Subversion
4 26 (6.220%) GitHub
5 21 (5.024%) Cucumber
6 19 (4.545%) Eclipse
6 19 (4.545%) Selenium
7 18 (4.306%) Jenkins
8 17 (4.067%) JIRA
9 11 (2.632%) Hudson
10 10 (2.392%) NUnit
11 9 (2.153%) RSpec
12 8 (1.914%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.914%) Capistrano
12 8 (1.914%) Rhino Mocks
13 6 (1.435%) Mockito
13 6 (1.435%) Cobertura
13 6 (1.435%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (10.53%) Publishing
2 29 (6.938%) Finance
2 29 (6.938%) Retail
3 19 (4.545%) Marketing
4 14 (3.349%) Back Office
5 13 (3.110%) Music
6 8 (1.914%) Legal
7 7 (1.675%) Banking
7 7 (1.675%) Music Industry
8 5 (1.196%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.957%) Games
10 1 (0.239%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.239%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 258 (61.72%) Developer
2 124 (29.67%) Java Developer
3 82 (19.62%) Senior Developer
4 52 (12.44%) Web Developer
5 51 (12.20%) Senior Java Developer
6 48 (11.48%) PHP Developer
7 34 (8.134%) Architect
8 31 (7.416%) Senior Web Developer
9 28 (6.699%) Administrator
10 24 (5.742%) Java Web Developer
11 22 (5.263%) Senior Java Web Developer
12 21 (5.024%) Software Engineer
13 20 (4.785%) Junior
14 14 (3.349%) Systems Administrator
14 14 (3.349%) Senior Architect
15 13 (3.110%) Linux Administrator
16 12 (2.871%) Linux Systems Administrator
16 12 (2.871%) .NET Developer
16 12 (2.871%) Drupal Developer
16 12 (2.871%) PHP Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 97 (23.21%) Open Source
2 49 (11.72%) Computer Science
3 37 (8.852%) Mathematics
4 33 (7.895%) Physics
4 33 (7.895%) Machine Learning
5 17 (4.067%) Semantic Web
6 16 (3.828%) Cloud Computing
7 15 (3.589%) iPhone
7 15 (3.589%) iPad
8 14 (3.349%) Inversion of Control
9 12 (2.871%) SaaS
9 12 (2.871%) IaaS
9 12 (2.871%) Ontologies
10 10 (2.392%) N-Tier
10 10 (2.392%) Replication
11 9 (2.153%) Statistics
11 9 (2.153%) Chemistry
11 9 (2.153%) Kindle
11 9 (2.153%) Digital Media
12 8 (1.914%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 144 (34.45%) Linux
2 44 (10.53%) UNIX
3 36 (8.612%) Ubuntu
4 33 (7.895%) Android
5 28 (6.699%) Apple iOS
6 17 (4.067%) CentOS
7 14 (3.349%) Debian
8 10 (2.392%) Mac OS X
9 8 (1.914%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (1.914%) Windows
10 5 (1.196%) Gentoo
11 2 (0.478%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.239%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (28.23%) MVC
2 92 (22.01%) E-Commerce
3 83 (19.86%) Agile Software Development
4 79 (18.90%) TDD
5 78 (18.66%) OO
6 73 (17.46%) SOA
7 59 (14.11%) Scrum
8 41 (9.809%) SEO
9 38 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
10 32 (7.656%) Multithreading
11 30 (7.177%) Web Development
12 26 (6.220%) Software Architecture
12 26 (6.220%) Content Management
13 22 (5.263%) Analytics
14 21 (5.024%) Configuration Management
15 19 (4.545%) BDD
16 18 (4.306%) Unit Testing
16 18 (4.306%) High Availability
17 16 (3.828%) Web Application Development
17 16 (3.828%) UML
Programming Languages
1 246 (58.85%) Java
2 179 (42.82%) JavaScript
3 99 (23.68%) SQL
4 97 (23.21%) PHP
5 46 (11.00%) Scala
6 44 (10.53%) Python
7 41 (9.809%) Ruby
8 36 (8.612%) C#
9 31 (7.416%) PHP5
10 24 (5.742%) C++
10 24 (5.742%) Perl
11 20 (4.785%) Groovy
12 17 (4.067%) Bash shell
13 16 (3.828%) Shell Script
14 14 (3.349%) C
15 13 (3.110%) R
16 6 (1.435%) XPath
17 4 (0.957%) XQuery
17 4 (0.957%) SPARQL
18 3 (0.718%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 26 (6.220%) Degree
2 6 (1.435%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.478%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.478%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.067%) QA
2 9 (2.153%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.478%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (14.59%) Varnish
2 18 (4.306%) Gluster
3 12 (2.871%) NFS
4 6 (1.435%) Samba
4 6 (1.435%) Squid
5 4 (0.957%) VirtualBox
6 3 (0.718%) Postfix
7 2 (0.478%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.478%) Xen
7 2 (0.478%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (8.612%) Puppet
2 14 (3.349%) Nagios
2 14 (3.349%) Ganglia
3 10 (2.392%) ZABBIX
4 4 (0.957%) OpenView
Vendors
1 69 (16.51%) Oracle
2 42 (10.05%) Google
3 29 (6.938%) Microsoft
4 27 (6.459%) Zend
5 20 (4.785%) hybris
5 20 (4.785%) ATG
6 15 (3.589%) Rackspace
7 14 (3.349%) IBM
7 14 (3.349%) Sitecore
7 14 (3.349%) Omniture
7 14 (3.349%) Open Text
7 14 (3.349%) Red Hat
7 14 (3.349%) Adobe
8 13 (3.110%) Demandware
9 12 (2.871%) Akamai
10 11 (2.632%) Endeca
10 11 (2.632%) Juniper
11 10 (2.392%) Apple
12 9 (2.153%) JBoss
12 9 (2.153%) Venda
London
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Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum plus benefits
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London
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