The first table below looks at the demand for Lucene skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lucene over the 3 months to 24 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 North West 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lucene
Rank 117 130 124
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -6
Contract jobs citing Lucene 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.043% 0.064% 0.066%
As % of the Application Development category 0.157% 0.225% 0.267%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £350 - £260
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £313 £260
% change year-on-year
+7.20% +20.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
638 889 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.37% 28.58% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 476 428
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Lucene
England

Lucene
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Lucene Daily 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester - 1 £350 -
Lucene
England

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Sinatra
2 2 (66.67%) Regular Expression
2 2 (66.67%) LINQ
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
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%) Agile .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Specialist
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%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
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