Lucene Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Lucene
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 444 494
Rank change year-on-year +53 +50 -56
Contract jobs citing Lucene 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.009% 0.016%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.092% 0.047% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £665 - -
25th Percentile £688 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £813 - £569
90th Percentile £835 - -
UK median daily rate £694 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +38.75% -23.08% +30.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3,244 4,227 6,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.01% 18.27% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,127 3,161 4,351
10th Percentile £323 £356 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 87 147
10th Percentile £21.88 £22.20 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.13 £65.65
90th Percentile £74.49 £79.19 £76.79
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Lucene
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Lucene as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lucene in the UK excluding London

Lucene
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lucene in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lucene in the UK excluding London

Lucene
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lucene in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lucene in the UK excluding London

Lucene
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lucene in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lucene in the UK excluding London

Lucene
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 2 £800 -
North of England +29 1 £650 +30.00%
North West - 1 £650 -
Lucene
UK

Lucene
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) Product Management
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Information Retrieval
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft