The first table below looks at the demand for Lucene skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lucene over the 3 months to 22 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lucene
Rank - 200 205
Permanent jobs citing Lucene 0 11 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West - 0.195% 0.152%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.425% 0.375%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 9
Average salary - £32,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -15.58%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +12.50%
All Application Development
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2476 2587 2398
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 46.86% 45.89% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2251 2315 2141
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Lucene
England

Lucene
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Lucene Salary Trend

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
1 5 (83.33%) NUnit
1 5 (83.33%) MVC
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
1 5 (83.33%) WCF
1 5 (83.33%) LINQ
1 5 (83.33%) Kanban
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (83.33%) NHibernate
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (83.33%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
1 5 (83.33%) BDD
1 5 (83.33%) Castle Windsor
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum-ban
1 5 (83.33%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (83.33%) Web Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 4 (66.67%) MCTS
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (66.67%) MCP
2 4 (66.67%) MCAD
2 4 (66.67%) MCSD
3 3 (50.00%) OO
3 3 (50.00%) Finance

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
1 5 (83.33%) WCF
1 5 (83.33%) LINQ
1 5 (83.33%) NHibernate
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (83.33%) Castle Windsor
1 5 (83.33%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) NUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
1 5 (83.33%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Music
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
1 5 (83.33%) MVC
1 5 (83.33%) Kanban
1 5 (83.33%) BDD
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum-ban
1 5 (83.33%) Web Application Development
2 3 (50.00%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VB
2 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
2 1 (16.67%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) MCTS
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (66.67%) MCP
1 4 (66.67%) MCAD
1 4 (66.67%) MCSD
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft