The first table below looks at the demand for Lucene skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lucene over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lucene
Rank 510 537 553
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +16
Contract jobs citing Lucene 31 28 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.067% 0.048% 0.053%
As % of the Application Development category 0.245% 0.188% 0.193%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 26
Average daily rate £413 £350 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £309 £219 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12638 14882 17097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.27% 25.50% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7921 8711 9986
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 389 578
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Lucene
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Lucene Daily Rate Trend

Lucene
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lucene within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Lucene Daily Rate Histogram

Lucene
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lucene Hourly Rate Trend

Lucene
Top 19 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 UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +46 27 £413 +17.85%
London +40 16 £500 +26.98%
City of London +25 8 £500 -
South East +18 6 £320 -8.57%
Hampshire -2 5 - -
Hertfordshire - 2 £400 -
St Albans - 2 £400 -
Leeds - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
East of England - 2 £400 -
North West +10 1 £350 -
Scotland -12 1 - -
Glasgow -25 1 - -
Surrey - 1 £320 -
Southampton - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 £350 -
Guildford - 1 £320 -
Eastleigh - 1 - -

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 39 (52.70%) Java
2 35 (47.30%) Apache Solr
3 32 (43.24%) SQL
4 30 (40.54%) Scrum
5 29 (39.19%) C#
5 29 (39.19%) .NET
5 29 (39.19%) Open Source
6 27 (36.49%) SQL Server
7 26 (35.14%) Multithreading
8 23 (31.08%) XML
9 22 (29.73%) MySQL
9 22 (29.73%) JavaScript
10 21 (28.38%) Linux
11 20 (27.03%) MVC
12 18 (24.32%) OO
12 18 (24.32%) WCF
13 17 (22.97%) WPF
13 17 (22.97%) Degree
13 17 (22.97%) Computer Science
13 17 (22.97%) Git (software)
13 17 (22.97%) MS Excel
13 17 (22.97%) Web Services
13 17 (22.97%) Banking
13 17 (22.97%) Spring
13 17 (22.97%) Front Office
14 16 (21.62%) Hibernate
14 16 (21.62%) WebSphere
14 16 (21.62%) Apache
14 16 (21.62%) HTML5
15 15 (20.27%) Inversion of Control

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 29 (39.19%) .NET
2 23 (31.08%) XML
3 18 (24.32%) WCF
4 17 (22.97%) WPF
4 17 (22.97%) Web Services
4 17 (22.97%) Spring
5 16 (21.62%) Hibernate
5 16 (21.62%) WebSphere
5 16 (21.62%) HTML5
6 15 (20.27%) Unity DI Container
6 15 (20.27%) Spring.NET
6 15 (20.27%) .NET Remoting
6 15 (20.27%) NHibernate
7 14 (18.92%) CSS
8 13 (17.57%) RESTful
9 11 (14.86%) REST
9 11 (14.86%) XSL
10 10 (13.51%) JMS
11 9 (12.16%) JPA
11 9 (12.16%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 35 (47.30%) Apache Solr
2 16 (21.62%) Apache
3 15 (20.27%) MSMQ
3 15 (20.27%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (10.81%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (8.108%) Apache Pig
6 3 (4.054%) Windows Azure
6 3 (4.054%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (4.054%) CMS
6 3 (4.054%) Tomcat
6 3 (4.054%) IIS
7 2 (2.703%) WebLogic
7 2 (2.703%) MQSeries
7 2 (2.703%) Alfresco
8 1 (1.351%) Adobe CQ
8 1 (1.351%) NServiceBus
8 1 (1.351%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.351%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.351%) Liferay
8 1 (1.351%) ESB
Applications
1 17 (22.97%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.351%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.703%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) HTTP
2 8 (10.81%) DVB
2 8 (10.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (36.49%) SQL Server
2 22 (29.73%) MySQL
3 12 (16.22%) NoSQL
4 11 (14.86%) Hadoop
5 10 (13.51%) MongoDB
6 9 (12.16%) SQL Server 2008
7 8 (10.81%) Big Data
8 7 (9.459%) Apache Hive
9 6 (8.108%) RavenDB
9 6 (8.108%) SQL Server 2005
10 4 (5.405%) InterSystems Cache
10 4 (5.405%) Neo4j
11 3 (4.054%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (4.054%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (4.054%) Sqoop
12 2 (2.703%) Data Mining
12 2 (2.703%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (2.703%) KDB
12 2 (2.703%) MarkLogic
12 2 (2.703%) HBase
Development Applications
1 17 (22.97%) Git (software)
2 15 (20.27%) Rhino Mocks
3 9 (12.16%) Cucumber
3 9 (12.16%) Maven
4 6 (8.108%) Visual Studio
5 3 (4.054%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.054%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.054%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (4.054%) Subversion
6 2 (2.703%) Selenium
6 2 (2.703%) JBehave
7 1 (1.351%) Gerrit
7 1 (1.351%) DbUnit
7 1 (1.351%) Mockito
7 1 (1.351%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.351%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.351%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.351%) Talend Open Studio
7 1 (1.351%) JIRA
7 1 (1.351%) NUnit
General
1 17 (22.97%) Banking
1 17 (22.97%) Front Office
2 8 (10.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.054%) Publishing
4 1 (1.351%) Games
Job Titles
1 59 (79.73%) Developer
2 23 (31.08%) .NET Developer
3 19 (25.68%) Java Developer
4 8 (10.81%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.108%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.757%) Agile .NET Developer
7 4 (5.405%) Hadoop Developer
8 3 (4.054%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.054%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (4.054%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (2.703%) PHP Developer
9 2 (2.703%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 2 (2.703%) Ruby Developer
9 2 (2.703%) WPF Developer
10 1 (1.351%) Development Consultant
10 1 (1.351%) Silverlight Developer
10 1 (1.351%) Technical Developer
10 1 (1.351%) Oracle Architect
10 1 (1.351%) ScrumMaster
10 1 (1.351%) GUI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (39.19%) Open Source
2 17 (22.97%) Computer Science
3 15 (20.27%) Inversion of Control
4 8 (10.81%) DTV
5 5 (6.757%) NHS
6 3 (4.054%) SaaS
7 2 (2.703%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.703%) Equities
7 2 (2.703%) Social Media
8 1 (1.351%) Digital Media
8 1 (1.351%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.351%) Mathematics
8 1 (1.351%) Derivative
8 1 (1.351%) Statistics
8 1 (1.351%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.38%) Linux
2 9 (12.16%) UNIX
3 3 (4.054%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (4.054%) Windows
4 2 (2.703%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.703%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.54%) Scrum
2 26 (35.14%) Multithreading
3 20 (27.03%) MVC
4 18 (24.32%) OO
5 15 (20.27%) Memory Management
5 15 (20.27%) TDD
6 14 (18.92%) Agile Software Development
7 12 (16.22%) BDD
8 10 (13.51%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.81%) Analytics
10 6 (8.108%) MVVM
11 5 (6.757%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (6.757%) Workflow
11 5 (6.757%) ITIL
11 5 (6.757%) PRINCE2
12 4 (5.405%) Customer Intelligence
12 4 (5.405%) Extreme Programming
12 4 (5.405%) Automated Testing
12 4 (5.405%) Data Analytics
13 3 (4.054%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.70%) Java
2 32 (43.24%) SQL
3 29 (39.19%) C#
4 22 (29.73%) JavaScript
5 14 (18.92%) Ruby
6 11 (14.86%) Python
7 8 (10.81%) XPath
8 5 (6.757%) C
8 5 (6.757%) Perl
8 5 (6.757%) PHP
8 5 (6.757%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.054%) Scala
10 2 (2.703%) C++
10 2 (2.703%) Groovy
11 1 (1.351%) Bash shell
11 1 (1.351%) sed
11 1 (1.351%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.351%) AWK
11 1 (1.351%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Degree
2 3 (4.054%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.703%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.054%) Dublin Core
2 2 (2.703%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.405%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 11 (14.86%) Oracle
2 6 (8.108%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.703%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.703%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.351%) 29West
4 1 (1.351%) Talend
4 1 (1.351%) Alterian
4 1 (1.351%) Google
4 1 (1.351%) Remedy
4 1 (1.351%) Adobe
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