The first 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 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash
Rank 66 70 69
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -1
Contract jobs citing Flash 3 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.369% 0.299% 0.473%
As % of the Application Development category 1.435% 1.587% 2.155%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £250 - £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 - £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 - £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £264 £263
% change year-on-year
+13.74% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £24.39
% change year-on-year
-13.37% -17.99%
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
209 189 232
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 25.74% 18.84% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 97 100
Average daily rate £325 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Flash
South East

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Flash Jobs Demand Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Flash Daily Rate Histogram

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

This 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 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
Gerrards Cross - 2 £188 -
Flash
South East

Flash
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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.

1 6 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 6 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (66.67%) Dreamweaver
2 4 (66.67%) W3C
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) JSP
2 4 (66.67%) XHTML
2 4 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 4 (66.67%) Web 2.0
2 4 (66.67%) Web Development
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) JSTL
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Flex
3 2 (33.33%) FTP
3 2 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (33.33%) MS Office
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Adobe
3 2 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (33.33%) InDesign

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) JSP
1 4 (66.67%) XHTML
1 4 (66.67%) JSTL
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Flex
2 2 (33.33%) XML
Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (33.33%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Web Developer
2 4 (66.67%) UI Developer
2 4 (66.67%) UI Programmer
3 2 (33.33%) Coordinator
3 2 (33.33%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (16.67%) Flash Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) W3C
1 4 (66.67%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 4 (66.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe