Apache Solr Contract Job Trends in England

Apache Solr
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Apache Solr skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 517 572
Rank change year-on-year +11 +55 +149
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 3 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.028% 0.047%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.098% 0.26% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile £286 £467 £396
25th Percentile £333 £548 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £617 £481
Median % change year-on-year -31.96% +28.26% -23.76%
75th Percentile £513 £638 £624
90th Percentile £562 £651 £680
UK median daily rate £288 £556 £475
% change year-on-year -48.31% +17.11% -26.21%

All Application Platform Skills
England

Apache Solr falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,075 3,481 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.24% 10.68% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,020 2,350 3,016
10th Percentile £275 £280 £256
25th Percentile £389 £404 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £850 £743
UK median daily rate £485 £525 £506
% change year-on-year -7.62% +3.75% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 79 150
10th Percentile £16.60 £17.08 £16.07
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.80 £20.13
Median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £46.09
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +3.06% +111.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £71.49
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.55 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -3.95% -29.63% +140.00%

Apache Solr
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Apache Solr as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Solr in England

Apache Solr
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Solr.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Solr

Apache Solr
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Solr in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Solr in England

Apache Solr
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Solr.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Solr

Apache Solr
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Solr within the England region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +14 3 £420 -31.96% 1
Apache Solr
UK

Apache Solr
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Alfresco
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) Pentaho
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft