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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lucene
Rank - - 167
Permanent jobs citing Lucene 0 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - 0.072%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.188%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
Average salary - - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +12.50%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2013 1928 1599
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.54% 42.82% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1801 1738 1467
Average salary £36,000 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Lucene Salary Trend

Lucene
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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%) MCP
1 5 (83.33%) MCAD
1 5 (83.33%) MCSD
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (83.33%) MVC
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
1 5 (83.33%) NUnit
1 5 (83.33%) MCTS
1 5 (83.33%) NHibernate
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
1 5 (83.33%) WCF
1 5 (83.33%) LINQ
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (83.33%) HTML5
1 5 (83.33%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
1 5 (83.33%) BDD
1 5 (83.33%) Kanban
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%) VB
2 4 (66.67%) VB.NET

Lucene
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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%) NHibernate
1 5 (83.33%) WCF
1 5 (83.33%) LINQ
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (83.33%) HTML5
1 5 (83.33%) Castle Windsor
1 5 (83.33%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Solr
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Pig
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) HBase
3 1 (16.67%) Redis
3 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) NUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
1 5 (83.33%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) MVC
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
1 5 (83.33%) Kanban
1 5 (83.33%) BDD
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum-ban
1 5 (83.33%) Web Application Development
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) VB
1 4 (66.67%) VB.NET
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) R
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) MCP
1 5 (83.33%) MCAD
1 5 (83.33%) MCSD
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (83.33%) MCTS
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft