The first table below looks at the demand for Lucene skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 218 232 249
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +17
Contract jobs citing Lucene 6 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.077% 0.069% 0.039%
As % of the Application Development category 0.317% 0.308% 0.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 4
Average daily rate £320 £350 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +12.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £313 £260
% change year-on-year
+7.20% +20.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1895 2272 2721
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.31% 22.39% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1005 1122 1263
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 103 197
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.50 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £41.50 £45.00
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East 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
Hampshire -10 5 - -
Surrey - 1 £320 -
Lucene
England

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) HTML5
2 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 5 (83.33%) JPA
2 5 (83.33%) Drools
2 5 (83.33%) Git (software)
2 5 (83.33%) REST
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) JDBC
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) XSL
2 5 (83.33%) UNIX
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) JMS
2 5 (83.33%) HTTP
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (83.33%) DTV
2 5 (83.33%) DVB
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
2 5 (83.33%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) Maven
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) XPath
2 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (83.33%) Multithreading
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 6 (100.00%) HTML5
2 5 (83.33%) JPA
2 5 (83.33%) Drools
2 5 (83.33%) REST
2 5 (83.33%) JDBC
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) XSL
2 5 (83.33%) JMS
2 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) HTTP
1 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
1 5 (83.33%) DVB
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
1 5 (83.33%) Git (software)
1 5 (83.33%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) DTV
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) UNIX
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
1 5 (83.33%) Multithreading
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) XPath
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle