Lucene Contracts

Apache Lucene
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Lucene skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Lucene over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 574 707
Rank change year-on-year +55 +133 +141
Contract jobs citing Lucene 1 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.018% 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.015% 0.089% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 10
10th Percentile - £621 £500
25th Percentile £450 £625 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £694 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.93% +15.63% -17.24%
75th Percentile £550 £778 -
90th Percentile - £806 £603
UK excluding London median daily rate - £750 £600
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Lucene falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Lucene
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lucene as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lucene in the UK

Lucene
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lucene.

Daily rate trend for Lucene in the UK

Lucene
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lucene.

Hourly rate trend for Lucene in the UK

Lucene
Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lucene within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +50 1 £500 -27.93% 17

Lucene
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Search
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash