Apache Lucene
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Lucene skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Lucene over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 708 841
Rank change year-on-year +118 +133 -176
Contract jobs citing Lucene 8 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.018% 0.009%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.090% 0.079% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 5
10th Percentile £621 £500 £628
25th Percentile £625 £525 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -17.24% +47.96%
75th Percentile £778 - £750
90th Percentile £806 £603 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £600 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Lucene is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lucene over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 7 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 27 April 2024. 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 +125 8 £694 +15.63% 1
London - 4 £681 - 1
UK excluding London +58 3 £750 +25.00%
Work from Home +131 2 £750 +25.00%
South West - 2 £800 -
North of England +24 1 £650 +8.33%
North West - 1 £650 -

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:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Analytics
2 7 (87.50%) Open Source
2 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 7 (87.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 6 (75.00%) Information Retrieval
4 4 (50.00%) Product Management
5 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
6 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) PhD
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk