Apache Solr Job Trends

Apache Solr
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Apache Solr skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 659 778
Rank change year-on-year -2 +119 +117
Permanent jobs citing Apache Solr 9 25 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.053% 0.027%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.25% 0.56% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9 19 18
10th Percentile - £62,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +45.45% -38.89%
75th Percentile £77,500 £113,750 £74,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £148,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £76,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.92% +38.64% -38.89%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,642 4,502 8,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.22% 9.50% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,422 2,722 6,045
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £39,375 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +13.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £45,383 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.66% +6.78% -10.53%

Apache Solr
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Apache Solr job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Solr
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Solr

Apache Solr
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Solr over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Solr in the UK

Apache Solr
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 February 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
England +2 9 £70,000 -12.50% 1
Work from Home +19 7 £55,000 -31.25% 1
UK excluding London -16 7 £72,500 -4.92% 1
North of England -10 5 £75,000 +3.45%
North West 0 4 £75,000 +3.45%
London +29 2 £55,000 -62.07%
East of England - 1 £55,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 -
East Midlands - 1 £70,000 -
Midlands - 1 £70,000 -

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 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (44.44%) MySQL
2 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
3 3 (33.33%) DocumentDB
3 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (33.33%) Neo4j
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Redis
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Backend Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Integration Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Node.js
2 3 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) React
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) MACH
4 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) AI
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
4 4 (44.44%) API Management
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Image Processing
4 4 (44.44%) OO
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Open Source
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) Observability
6 2 (22.22%) SDLC
7 1 (11.11%) API Design
7 1 (11.11%) Content Management
7 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) PHP
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft