The first table below looks at the demand for Lucene skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lucene
Rank 154 148 -
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -
Permanent jobs citing Lucene 3 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.096% 0.174% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.227% 0.493% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 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
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1320 1216 1180
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 42.17% 35.36% 34.32%
Number of salaries quoted 799 987 870
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Lucene
UK

Lucene
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Lucene Salary Trend

Lucene
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lucene within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -19 3 - -
Lucene
UK

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) jQuery
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Solr
2 5 (71.43%) CouchDB
2 5 (71.43%) Unit Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (71.43%) TeamCity
2 5 (71.43%) Git (software)
2 5 (71.43%) Web Development
2 5 (71.43%) JSON
2 5 (71.43%) NoSQL
2 5 (71.43%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (71.43%) Couchbase
2 5 (71.43%) YUI
2 5 (71.43%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) SOA
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
2 5 (71.43%) Middleware
2 5 (71.43%) Subversion
3 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Content Management
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) Google
4 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (71.43%) JSON
2 5 (71.43%) YUI
2 5 (71.43%) Middleware
2 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) OSGi
4 2 (28.57%) Apache Sling
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) JDBC
4 2 (28.57%) Struts
4 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 2 (28.57%) Spring
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Solr
2 5 (71.43%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (28.57%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (28.57%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Tridion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) CouchDB
1 5 (71.43%) NoSQL
1 5 (71.43%) Couchbase
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Subversion
1 5 (71.43%) TeamCity
1 5 (71.43%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) C# Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Development Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Java Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) SOA
1 5 (71.43%) Web Development
1 5 (71.43%) Unit Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Content Management
3 2 (28.57%) DRM
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Content Management
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
1 2 (28.57%) Alterian
1 2 (28.57%) Google