The first table below looks at the demand for Lucene skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 72 - 69
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Lucene 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.109% - 0.193%
As % of the Application Development category 0.357% - 0.690%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £350 - £260
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £313 £253
% change year-on-year
+7.20% +23.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
280 392 290
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.63% 30.13% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 234 158
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 14
Average hourly rate £33.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.25% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Lucene
North West

Lucene
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Lucene Daily Rate Trend

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Solr
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Sinatra
2 2 (66.67%) RavenDB
2 2 (66.67%) Regular Expression
2 2 (66.67%) LINQ
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) LINQ
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Sinatra
2 2 (66.67%) Regular Expression
3 1 (33.33%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Agile .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft