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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 543 560
Rank change year-on-year +42 +17 +132
Permanent jobs citing Apache Solr 8 23 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.064% 0.038%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.40% 0.77% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 13
10th Percentile - £55,000 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £70,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £77,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +40.91% -35.29%
75th Percentile £76,563 £87,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,625 - £77,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £85,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -35.29% +47.83% -32.35%

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 2,011 2,969 3,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.74% 8.26% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 1,582 2,610
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,775 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £33,000 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%

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 14 January 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 14 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 of England +8 5 £72,500 - 3
North West +21 4 £65,000 -10.34% 2
East of England - 2 £55,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (50.00%) MySQL
3 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (25.00%) DocumentDB
4 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (25.00%) Neo4j
5 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (12.50%) Redis
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Integration Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) MACH
3 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) AI
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
4 4 (50.00%) API Management
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) Image Processing
4 4 (50.00%) OO
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
5 2 (25.00%) SDLC
6 1 (12.50%) Application Security
6 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) PHP
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft