Apache Solr Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Solr
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Apache Solr skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Solr over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 393 451
Rank change year-on-year +59 +58 +45
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 2 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.029% 0.046%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.13% 0.34% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £624 - £423
25th Percentile £633 £513 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +7.69% -22.00%
75th Percentile £670 £538 £494
90th Percentile £673 - £500
UK median daily rate £638 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +15.91% +15.79% -25.49%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,494 1,779 2,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.70% 8.56% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 1,187 1,925
10th Percentile £213 £213 £201
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 123 98
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.30 £14.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £65.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Apache Solr
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Apache Solr as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Solr in the UK excluding London

Apache Solr
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Solr in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Apache Solr in the UK excluding London

Apache Solr
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +47 2 £656 - 4
Apache Solr
UK

Apache Solr
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) JAXB
1 2 (100.00%) JAX-RS
1 2 (100.00%) JAX-WS
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSD
1 2 (100.00%) XSL
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BPEL
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle