Berkshire ColdFusion Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe ColdFusion skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ColdFusion over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe ColdFusion
Location Berkshire Blackpool Bradford Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Londonderry Coventry Cumbria Devon East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Exeter Gatwick Guildford Hampshire Hove Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Swindon UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	125	145
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	3	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.598 %	2.079 %
Daily rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£368
Average daily rate	£320	£402
% change on same period last year	-20.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£350
% change on same period last year	-21.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£23.75
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£24.00
% change on same period last year	+45.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£24.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.04	£26.84
% change on same period last year	+15.63 %
Application Platforms Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	502	866
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.669 %	0.876 %
Daily rates quoted	140	234
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£357
Average daily rate	£373	£385
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	79
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.44	£23.18
Average hourly rate	£31.54	£24.82
% change on same period last year	+27.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.64	£26.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
ColdFusion South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

ColdFusion
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ColdFusion across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

ColdFusion
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ColdFusion across the Berkshire region.

ColdFusion
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ColdFusion across the Berkshire region.

ColdFusion
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ColdFusion within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Slough	-	1	-	-

ColdFusion South East

ColdFusion
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing ColdFusion 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited ColdFusion.

1 3 (27.27 %) HTML 1 3 (27.27 %) JavaScript 1 3 (27.27 %) MySQL 2 2 (18.18 %) CSS 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows 3 1 (9.091 %) Linux 3 1 (9.091 %) B2B 3 1 (9.091 %) B2C 3 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 3 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 3 1 (9.091 %) Sybase 3 1 (9.091 %) ColdFusion MX 3 1 (9.091 %) IIS 3 1 (9.091 %) SQL 3 1 (9.091 %) Transact-SQL

3 1 (9.091 %) Ruby 3 1 (9.091 %) Ruby on Rails 3 1 (9.091 %) Marketing 3 1 (9.091 %) Web Development 3 1 (9.091 %) Time Management

ColdFusion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing ColdFusion also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ColdFusion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (27.27 %) HTML 2 2 (18.18 %) CSS 3 1 (9.091 %) Ruby on Rails	Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) ColdFusion MX 1 1 (9.091 %) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (27.27 %) MySQL 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 9 (81.82 %) Developer 2 7 (63.64 %) ColdFusion Developer 3 4 (36.36 %) Senior ColdFusion Developer 3 4 (36.36 %) Senior Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Web Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Consultant 5 1 (9.091 %) Server Support 5 1 (9.091 %) Support Consultant 5 1 (9.091 %) Senior Web Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Web Architect 5 1 (9.091 %) Architect	Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) Windows 1 1 (9.091 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) B2B 1 1 (9.091 %) B2C 1 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Web Development 1 1 (9.091 %) Time Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (27.27 %) JavaScript 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL 2 1 (9.091 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (9.091 %) Ruby
Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) Sybase