Apache Solr Contracts

Apache Solr
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 577 648
Rank change year-on-year +41 +71 +166
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 3 13 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.030% 0.066%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.086% 0.29% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 30
10th Percentile £321 £395 £362
25th Percentile £362 - £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year -10.75% +6.67% -37.50%
75th Percentile £529 £538 £513
90th Percentile £569 £594 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate - £525 £488
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -39.06%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,499 4,431 5,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.17% 10.19% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,270 3,076 4,088
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £645
90th Percentile £713 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 160 159
10th Percentile £17.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.35 £16.44 £21.13
Median hourly rate £51.25 £31.91 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.60% -39.21% +128.26%
75th Percentile £66.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £46.75
% change year-on-year +63.48% -31.30% +133.75%

Apache Solr
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache Solr as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Solr in the UK

Apache Solr
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Solr.

Daily rate trend for Apache Solr in the UK

Apache Solr
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Solr over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Solr in the UK

Apache Solr
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Solr.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Solr in the UK

Apache Solr
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +50 3 £446 -15.00% 23
London +46 3 £446 -27.14% 6
Work from Home +22 1 £580 +16.00% 25

Apache Solr
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (33.33%) Drupal
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%) Drupal 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
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%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft