Buckinghamshire Flash Contracts

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.

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Location Aylesbury Banbury Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheadle Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Kent Leamington Spa Leeds London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester March Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newton Abbot North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Plymouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham York Yorkshire	3 months to 17 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	45	41	80
Rank change year-on-year	-4 +39
Matching contract IT job ads	13	12	6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire	1.788 %	2.041 %	0.416 %
As % of the Application Development category	11.02 %	11.65 %	2.083 %
Daily rates quoted	8	0	3
Average daily rate	£158	-	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£240	£238	£250
% change year-on-year	+1.050 % -5.000 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4	0
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 %
All Application Development Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Application Development category	118	103	288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire	16.23 %	17.52 %	19.96 %
Daily rates quoted	48	21	57
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 quoted	7	5	4
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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Location	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
Milton Keynes	+5	9	£158	-
Aylesbury	-	1	-	-

Flash 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.

1 18 (78.26 %) Photoshop 2 16 (69.57 %) ActionScript 3 15 (65.22 %) CSS 3 15 (65.22 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 13 (56.52 %) Graphic Design 5 11 (47.83 %) Marketing 5 11 (47.83 %) Product Marketing 6 5 (21.74 %) JavaScript 7 3 (13.04 %) PHP 7 3 (13.04 %) HTML 7 3 (13.04 %) Java 7 3 (13.04 %) E-Commerce 7 3 (13.04 %) ActionScript 2.0 8 2 (8.696 %) RUP 8 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE

8 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (8.696 %) UML 8 2 (8.696 %) Animation 8 2 (8.696 %) ActionScript 3.0 8 2 (8.696 %) Degree 8 2 (8.696 %) Web Design 8 2 (8.696 %) Agile Software Development 8 2 (8.696 %) Retail 8 2 (8.696 %) Unified Process 8 2 (8.696 %) E-Learning 9 1 (4.348 %) DHTML 9 1 (4.348 %) Finance 9 1 (4.348 %) CMS 9 1 (4.348 %) Games 9 1 (4.348 %) Hibernate

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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.

Application Development 1 15 (65.22 %) CSS 2 3 (13.04 %) HTML 3 1 (4.348 %) DHTML 3 1 (4.348 %) Hibernate 3 1 (4.348 %) Spring 3 1 (4.348 %) Adobe Flex 3 1 (4.348 %) EJB 3 1 (4.348 %) XHTML 3 1 (4.348 %) RSS 3 1 (4.348 %) Struts 3 1 (4.348 %) XML 3 1 (4.348 %) WebCenter	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.348 %) CMS 1 1 (4.348 %) AquaLogic 1 1 (4.348 %) WebLogic Portal
Applications 1 18 (78.26 %) Photoshop 2 15 (65.22 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (4.348 %) Acrobat	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.348 %) Intranet 1 1 (4.348 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.348 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (4.348 %) MySQL 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.348 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) Eclipse 1 1 (4.348 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 13 (56.52 %) Graphic Design 2 11 (47.83 %) Marketing 3 2 (8.696 %) Animation 3 2 (8.696 %) Retail 4 1 (4.348 %) Finance 4 1 (4.348 %) Games	Job Titles 1 15 (65.22 %) Designer 2 13 (56.52 %) Web Designer 3 11 (47.83 %) Developer 4 9 (39.13 %) Graphic Designer 5 7 (30.43 %) Flash Developer 6 6 (26.09 %) Flash Designer 7 2 (8.696 %) Project Manager 8 1 (4.348 %) Web Developer 8 1 (4.348 %) E-Commerce Manager 8 1 (4.348 %) Photoshop Designer 8 1 (4.348 %) Java Developer 8 1 (4.348 %) Intranet Developer 8 1 (4.348 %) E-Commerce Project Manager 8 1 (4.348 %) UI Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.696 %) E-Learning 2 1 (4.348 %) Social Network	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (47.83 %) Product Marketing 2 3 (13.04 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (8.696 %) RUP 3 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE 3 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (8.696 %) UML 3 2 (8.696 %) Web Design 3 2 (8.696 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (8.696 %) Unified Process 4 1 (4.348 %) Content Management 4 1 (4.348 %) OOP 4 1 (4.348 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 16 (69.57 %) ActionScript 2 5 (21.74 %) JavaScript 3 3 (13.04 %) PHP 3 3 (13.04 %) Java 3 3 (13.04 %) ActionScript 2.0 4 2 (8.696 %) ActionScript 3.0 5 1 (4.348 %) VB6 5 1 (4.348 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (8.696 %) Degree
Vendors 1 1 (4.348 %) JBoss 1 1 (4.348 %) Business Objects 1 1 (4.348 %) Oracle 1 1 (4.348 %) Adobe 1 1 (4.348 %) BEA 1 1 (4.348 %) Plumtree