Apache Solr Contract Job Trends

Apache Solr
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apache Solr skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 513 565
Rank change year-on-year -103 +52 +118
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 3 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.017% 0.043%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.072% 0.15% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 9
10th Percentile £462 £359 £475
25th Percentile £470 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% +10.87% +19.48%
75th Percentile £520 £666 £640
90th Percentile £531 £671 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate - £656 £525
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +7.69%

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 4,160 3,412 4,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.46% 11.74% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 2,250 2,855
10th Percentile £306 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £602 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 77 167
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.35 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.27 £23.80 £15.48
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +54.55% +21.52%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.00 £67.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £54.88 £23.48
% change year-on-year -25.28% +133.68% +6.74%

Apache Solr
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Apache Solr job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Solr
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Solr

Apache Solr
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Solr

Apache Solr
Top 3 Contract Job 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 26 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 -44 2 £463 +48.00%
England -102 2 £463 -27.45% 1
Work from Home -40 1 £525 - 2

Apache Solr
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Spock
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (33.33%) VersionOne
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Hybris Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Service Design
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Story Points
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) SAP