Apache Lucene
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Lucene skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Lucene over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 903 995 1121
Rank change year-on-year +92 +126 -248
Permanent jobs citing Lucene 8 4 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.004% 0.059%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.038% 0.013% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 18
10th Percentile - £65,000 £48,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £68,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £80,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +12.28% -5.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,625 £108,750
90th Percentile £86,750 £86,000 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -37.50%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,036 31,192 63,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.35% 30.12% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 15,709 19,201 30,320
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lucene.

Salary trend for Lucene in the UK

Lucene
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lucene over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lucene in the UK

Lucene
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lucene within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +125 8 £67,000 -17.54% 1
England +94 8 £67,000 -16.25% 1
Work from Home - 3 £69,000 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) Apache Solr
2 6 (75.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (75.00%) CMS
2 6 (75.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 6 (75.00%) Umbraco
2 6 (75.00%) WordPress
3 2 (25.00%) Apache
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 6 (75.00%) IaaS
2 6 (75.00%) PaaS
2 6 (75.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Talend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Development Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (75.00%) Product Roadmap
1 6 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (25.00%) Marketing Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
1 2 (25.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (50.00%) GDPR
3 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Adobe
1 6 (75.00%) Marketo
1 6 (75.00%) Sitecore
2 2 (25.00%) Talend