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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 470 528
Rank change year-on-year -103 +58 +116
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 2 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.005% 0.020% 0.048%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.055% 0.18% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £359 £475
25th Percentile £456 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% +10.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £469 £666 £640
90th Percentile - £671 £725
UK median daily rate £463 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -27.45% +10.87% +17.95%

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 3,615 2,835 3,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.77% 11.59% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,536 1,851 2,446
10th Percentile £310 £270 £225
25th Percentile £410 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £695 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 57 148
10th Percentile £15.05 £16.90 £13.43
25th Percentile £17.69 £23.80 £15.46
Median hourly rate £27.21 £50.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.58% +96.08% +13.33%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.90 £72.75 £67.69
UK median hourly rate £27.61 £41.46 £26.50
% change year-on-year -33.41% +56.43% +17.78%

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
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 19 March 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 -48 2 £463 +48.00%
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 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Spock
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) VersionOne
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Hybris Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware