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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 512 516
Rank change year-on-year -104 +4 +76
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 8 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.018% 0.011% 0.024%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.19% 0.098% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £463 £286 £449
25th Percentile £517 £333 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £420 £613
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -31.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £688 £513 £646
90th Percentile - £562 £654
UK median daily rate £675 £288 £500
% change year-on-year +134.78% -42.50% +8.11%

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 4,127 3,058 3,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.05% 11.07% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,729 2,042 2,507
10th Percentile £303 £280 £296
25th Percentile £406 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £595 £600 £660
90th Percentile £680 £725 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £486 £525
% change year-on-year +2.83% -7.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 80 91
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.15 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £26.00 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +20.77% -22.22%
75th Percentile £60.25 £66.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £78.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £32.50
% change year-on-year -24.58% +32.58% -32.99%

Apache Solr
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Solr relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Apache Solr job vacancy trend 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 14 August 2026.

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 14 August 2026. 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 -68 8 £675 +60.71% 4
Apache Solr
UK

Apache Solr
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) ObjectStore
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Couchbase
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Spock
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (12.50%) VersionOne
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Hybris Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) React
2 5 (62.50%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) Laravel
4 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) AI
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Thinking
1 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (62.50%) ETL
1 5 (62.50%) Kalman Filter
1 5 (62.50%) OO
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Presales
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Service Design
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 5 (62.50%) Hitachi
3 1 (12.50%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) VMware