The first table below looks at the demand for Lucene skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lucene
Rank - 100 113
Permanent jobs citing Lucene 0 23 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge - 1.144% 0.513%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.231% 1.035%
Number of salaries quoted 0 23 11
Average salary - £33,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -10.66%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +12.50%
All Application Development
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
863 1031 1063
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.55% 51.29% 49.60%
Number of salaries quoted 803 917 952
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Lucene
Cambridgeshire

Lucene
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Lucene Jobs Demand Trend

Lucene
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Lucene across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Lucene Salary Trend

Lucene
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Lucene.

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Lucene. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
To be considered you'll be degree educated and be happy working with Linux systems and probably an active contributor to the open source movement. Database skills with...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Fantastic + prospects
Posted: 22 May 2013