The first table below looks at the demand for Lucene skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lucene over the 3 months to 20 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 West Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lucene
Rank 92 - 72
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Lucene 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.158% - 0.092%
As % of the Application Development category 0.538% - 0.442%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £300 - £320
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
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
372 369 226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 29.34% 22.78% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 217 119
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £212 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 3
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Lucene
Yorkshire

Lucene
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Leeds - 2 £300 -
Lucene
Yorkshire

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) NHS
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Solr
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Sinatra
1 2 (100.00%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) NHS
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree