Apache Solr Contract Job Trends in London

Apache Solr
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Apache Solr skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 347 389
Rank change year-on-year -62 +42 +95
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.011% 0.008% 0.028%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.12% 0.067% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £520
25th Percentile £456 £294 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £313 £608
Median % change year-on-year +48.00% -48.56% +38.86%
75th Percentile £469 £331 £658
90th Percentile - - £691
England median daily rate £463 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -27.45% +15.91% +12.82%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,700 1,485 1,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.64% 11.73% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,003 1,453
10th Percentile £356 £330 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £26.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% +34.48% -17.14%
75th Percentile £32.32 £45.96 £33.00
90th Percentile £69.36 £53.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -46.67% +90.91% -15.38%

Apache Solr
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Apache Solr job vacancy trend in London

Apache Solr
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Apache Solr
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Apache Solr
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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