Apache Solr Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache Solr
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Apache Solr skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 511 677
Rank change year-on-year -30 +166 +68
Permanent jobs citing Apache Solr 6 15 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.053% 0.022%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.28% 0.61% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 12
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £68,438 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% +38.64% -38.89%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,375 - £78,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £78,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.63% +36.96% -36.11%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,130 2,465 5,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.08% 8.75% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,504 1,529 4,442
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £59,500 £60,000 £57,688
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,108 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Apache Solr
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Apache Solr job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Apache Solr
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apache Solr.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apache Solr

Apache Solr
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Solr in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Solr in the UK excluding London

Apache Solr
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Solr within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -6 4 £75,000 +3.45%
North of England -29 4 £75,000 +3.45%
East of England - 1 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £70,000 -
Midlands - 1 £70,000 -
Apache Solr
UK

Apache Solr
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (50.00%) DocumentDB
2 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (50.00%) Neo4j
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Redis
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) API Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Image Processing
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) OSINT
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft