Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Buckinghamshire region.

 Adobe Flash
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank454180
Rank change year-on-year
Down-4Up+39
Matching contract IT job ads13126
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire1.788 %2.041 %0.416 %
As % of the Application Development category11.02 %11.65 %2.083 %
Daily rates quoted803
Average daily rate£158-£250
UK excluding London average daily rate£240£238£250
% change year-on-year
+1.050 %-5.000 %
Hourly rates quoted040
Average hourly rate-£14.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.50£20.41£28.75
% change year-on-year
+64.17 %-29.02 %
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
118103288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire16.23 %17.52 %19.96 %
Daily rates quoted482157
Average daily rate£250£300£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66 %-7.690 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£158£200£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£398£450£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted754
Average hourly rate£26.00£17.50£13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.57 %+34.61 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %-7.690 %
Flash South EastFlash
South East

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Flash
Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Flash Demand Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

Buckinghamshire Flash Daily Rate Histogram

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flash within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton KeynesUp+59£158-
AylesburyNew entry-1--
Flash South EastFlash
South East

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Flash 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 Flash.

118 (78.26 %)Photoshop
216 (69.57 %)ActionScript
315 (65.22 %)CSS
315 (65.22 %)Adobe Illustrator
413 (56.52 %)Graphic Design
511 (47.83 %)Marketing
511 (47.83 %)Product Marketing
65 (21.74 %)JavaScript
73 (13.04 %)PHP
73 (13.04 %)HTML
73 (13.04 %)Java
73 (13.04 %)E-Commerce
73 (13.04 %)ActionScript 2.0
82 (8.696 %)RUP
82 (8.696 %)PRINCE
82 (8.696 %)PRINCE2
82 (8.696 %)UML
82 (8.696 %)Animation
82 (8.696 %)ActionScript 3.0
82 (8.696 %)Degree
82 (8.696 %)Web Design
82 (8.696 %)Agile Software Development
82 (8.696 %)Retail
82 (8.696 %)Unified Process
82 (8.696 %)E-Learning
91 (4.348 %)DHTML
91 (4.348 %)Finance
91 (4.348 %)CMS
91 (4.348 %)Games
91 (4.348 %)Hibernate

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Flash 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 Flash. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
115 (65.22 %)CSS
23 (13.04 %)HTML
31 (4.348 %)DHTML
31 (4.348 %)Hibernate
31 (4.348 %)Spring
31 (4.348 %)Adobe Flex
31 (4.348 %)EJB
31 (4.348 %)XHTML
31 (4.348 %)RSS
31 (4.348 %)Struts
31 (4.348 %)XML
31 (4.348 %)WebCenter
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (4.348 %)CMS
11 (4.348 %)AquaLogic
11 (4.348 %)WebLogic Portal
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
118 (78.26 %)Photoshop
215 (65.22 %)Adobe Illustrator
31 (4.348 %)Acrobat
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (4.348 %)Intranet
11 (4.348 %)Internet
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (4.348 %)Crystal Reports
11 (4.348 %)MySQL
11 (4.348 %)SQL Server
11 (4.348 %)BusinessObjects
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (4.348 %)Eclipse
11 (4.348 %)Dreamweaver
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
113 (56.52 %)Graphic Design
211 (47.83 %)Marketing
32 (8.696 %)Animation
32 (8.696 %)Retail
41 (4.348 %)Finance
41 (4.348 %)Games
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
115 (65.22 %)Designer
213 (56.52 %)Web Designer
311 (47.83 %)Developer
49 (39.13 %)Graphic Designer
57 (30.43 %)Flash Developer
66 (26.09 %)Flash Designer
72 (8.696 %)Project Manager
81 (4.348 %)Web Developer
81 (4.348 %)E-Commerce Manager
81 (4.348 %)Photoshop Designer
81 (4.348 %)Java Developer
81 (4.348 %)Intranet Developer
81 (4.348 %)E-Commerce Project Manager
81 (4.348 %)UI Developer
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (8.696 %)E-Learning
21 (4.348 %)Social Network
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
111 (47.83 %)Product Marketing
23 (13.04 %)E-Commerce
32 (8.696 %)RUP
32 (8.696 %)PRINCE
32 (8.696 %)PRINCE2
32 (8.696 %)UML
32 (8.696 %)Web Design
32 (8.696 %)Agile Software Development
32 (8.696 %)Unified Process
41 (4.348 %)Content Management
41 (4.348 %)OOP
41 (4.348 %)OO
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
116 (69.57 %)ActionScript
25 (21.74 %)JavaScript
33 (13.04 %)PHP
33 (13.04 %)Java
33 (13.04 %)ActionScript 2.0
42 (8.696 %)ActionScript 3.0
51 (4.348 %)VB6
51 (4.348 %)VB
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (8.696 %)Degree
Buckinghamshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (4.348 %)JBoss
11 (4.348 %)Business Objects
11 (4.348 %)Oracle
11 (4.348 %)Adobe
11 (4.348 %)BEA
11 (4.348 %)Plumtree