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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 502 558
Rank change year-on-year -39 +56 +133
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 3 11 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% 0.036% 0.060%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.092% 0.33% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £286 £467 £451
25th Percentile £333 £548 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £617 £563
Median % change year-on-year -31.96% +9.73% -10.00%
75th Percentile £513 £638 £649
90th Percentile £562 £651 £720
UK median daily rate £288 £556 £525
% change year-on-year -48.31% +5.95% -17.65%

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 3,274 3,374 4,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.15% 10.91% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,223 2,141 2,739
10th Percentile £283 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £825 £725
UK median daily rate £492 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 71 136
10th Percentile £16.47 £20.12 £15.21
25th Percentile £22.38 £30.00 £18.97
Median hourly rate £41.00 £42.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +57.41% +35.00%
75th Percentile £69.25 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.00 £75.55
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £41.91 £28.75
% change year-on-year -16.49% +45.77% +43.75%

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 -10 3 £420 -31.96% 7
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 (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