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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 561 605
Rank change year-on-year +1 +44 +148
Contract jobs citing Apache Solr 5 12 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.032% 0.050%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.14% 0.29% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 12
10th Percentile £257 £456 £428
25th Percentile £261 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £556 £498
Median % change year-on-year -48.31% +11.81% -24.91%
75th Percentile £374 £629 £636
90th Percentile £507 £646 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £288 - £583
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

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 3,573 4,074 4,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 10.88% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,356 2,561 3,299
10th Percentile £280 £263 £250
25th Percentile £384 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +4.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £825 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £459 £470
% change year-on-year -1.91% -2.39% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 74 153
10th Percentile £16.64 £18.49 £16.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £34.98 £36.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +20.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.00 £76.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.88 £56.13 £27.25
% change year-on-year -39.63% +105.96% +49.52%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Solr over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Solr in the UK

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 5 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 18 October 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
Work from Home +24 3 £275 -50.56% 25
London +15 3 £420 -31.96% 2
England +5 3 £420 -31.96% 14
UK excluding London -12 2 £288 - 12
Scotland - 2 £288 -

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 3 (60.00%) Alfresco
2 1 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (40.00%) Pentaho
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Content Management
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 3 (60.00%) Records Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) ERP
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft