The first table below looks at the demand for Lucene skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lucene over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Hampshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lucene
Rank 99 92 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing Lucene 5 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.323% 0.437% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.085% 1.602% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £313 £253
% change year-on-year
+7.20% +23.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Application Development
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
461 437 526
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.78% 27.26% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 194 216
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 49 71
Average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +2.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £19.00 £33.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Lucene
South East

Lucene
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lucene across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Hampshire Lucene Jobs Demand Trend

Lucene
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lucene across the Hampshire region.

Hampshire Lucene Daily Rate Trend

Lucene
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lucene across the Hampshire region.

Hampshire Lucene Hourly Rate Trend

Lucene
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lucene within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Eastleigh - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 - -
Lucene
South East

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Lucene also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Lucene.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSL
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) JMS
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) DTV
1 5 (100.00%) DVB
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) XPath
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) JPA
1 5 (100.00%) Drools
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Lucene also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Lucene. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSL
1 5 (100.00%) JMS
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) JPA
1 5 (100.00%) Drools
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) DVB
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
General
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) DTV
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
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