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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lucene
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Lucene 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +12.50%
All Application Development
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
271 278 277
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 45.62% 48.35% 49.55%
Number of salaries quoted 245 244 242
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Lucene
West Midlands

Lucene
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Lucene Salary Trend

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 4 (100.00%) VB
1 4 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) MCP
1 4 (100.00%) MCAD
1 4 (100.00%) MCSD
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) NUnit
1 4 (100.00%) MCTS
1 4 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) LINQ
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum-ban
1 4 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 4 (100.00%) Web Application Development

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) LINQ
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 4 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) NUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum-ban
1 4 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) VB
1 4 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCP
1 4 (100.00%) MCAD
1 4 (100.00%) MCSD
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft