Apache Solr Job Trends in the North of England

Apache Solr
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Apache Solr skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 281 268
Rank change year-on-year +24 -13 +149
Permanent jobs citing Apache Solr 6 6 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.057% 0.065% 0.089%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.27% 0.77% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £52,500 £59,250 -
25th Percentile £53,438 £65,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +55.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £77,188 £83,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,375 £85,750 £58,500
England median annual salary £56,250 £85,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -33.82% +41.67% -29.41%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

Apache Solr falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 474 779 719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.49% 8.42% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 330 419 617
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,563 £32,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% - -4.51%
75th Percentile £62,250 £59,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £71,991 £82,548
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,875 £54,145
% change year-on-year -10.51% +3.20% -1.55%

Apache Solr
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache Solr relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Apache Solr job vacancy trend in the North of England

Apache Solr
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Apache Solr.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Apache Solr

Apache Solr
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Solr in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Solr in the North of England

Apache Solr
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Solr within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +22 5 £57,500 -25.81% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 - 3
Apache Solr
England

Apache Solr
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) DocumentDB
3 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (33.33%) Neo4j
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) MACH
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) AI
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) API Management
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (33.33%) Content Management
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Image Processing
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft