The first table below looks at the demand for Lucene skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lucene over the 3 months to 17 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lucene
Rank 92 73 -
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -
Permanent jobs citing Lucene 3 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.261% 0.357% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.480% 0.761% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 0
Average salary - £55,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +12.50%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
625 394 388
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 54.35% 46.90% 39.92%
Number of salaries quoted 347 327 301
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £28,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Lucene
Scotland

Lucene
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Lucene Salary Trend

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Solr
2 4 (80.00%) Web Development
2 4 (80.00%) JSON
2 4 (80.00%) YUI
2 4 (80.00%) CouchDB
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (80.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (80.00%) Couchbase
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) TeamCity
2 4 (80.00%) Git (software)
2 4 (80.00%) Subversion
2 4 (80.00%) Middleware
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) Struts
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) JSON
2 4 (80.00%) YUI
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (80.00%) Middleware
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) Struts
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) OSGi
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Sling
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Solr
2 4 (80.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (20.00%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (20.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Tridion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) CouchDB
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (80.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Subversion
1 4 (80.00%) TeamCity
1 4 (80.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) SOA
1 4 (80.00%) Web Development
1 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) DRM
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Alterian
1 1 (20.00%) Google