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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 653 719 714
Rank change year-on-year +66 -5 +164
Permanent jobs citing Apache Solr 17 32 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.047% 0.032%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.43% 0.58% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 17 19 15
10th Percentile - £59,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £73,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £130,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.77% +100.00% -23.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £140,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £148,000 £109,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% +25.00% -29.41%

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 3,934 5,537 6,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.47% 8.17% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,658 3,385 4,793
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -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 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Solr in the UK

Apache Solr
Top 11 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 16 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +86 17 £57,500 -55.77% 13
Work from Home +80 15 £57,500 -55.77% 8
UK excluding London +85 12 £57,500 -23.33% 9
North of England +44 6 £57,500 -4.17% 3
London +51 5 £55,000 -60.71% 3
North West +48 5 £57,500 -4.17% 3
East of England - 4 £56,250 - 1
Midlands - 2 £81,250 -
West Midlands - 1 £92,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 -
East 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 7 (41.18%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Headless CMS
2 1 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Cloudflare
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.88%) IPsec
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (82.35%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (82.35%) MySQL
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.88%) Couchbase
3 1 (5.88%) DocumentDB
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Neo4j
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Git
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
2 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Backend Developer
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
1 7 (41.18%) Integration Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Technical Manager
2 6 (35.29%) Web Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) MACH
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Linux
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
1 13 (76.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) AI
1 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 13 (76.47%) API Management
2 13 (76.47%) Containerisation
3 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
4 8 (47.06%) Machine Learning
4 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (41.18%) Content Management
5 7 (41.18%) Image Processing
5 7 (41.18%) OO
5 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
6 6 (35.29%) API Development
6 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (35.29%) Server Management
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (11.76%) DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) JavaScript
2 13 (76.47%) Python
3 8 (47.06%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft