The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Canary Wharf 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Adobe Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe
Rank 44 35 45
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +10
Contract jobs citing Adobe 7 15 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.813% 3.968% 3.107%
As % of the Vendors category 4.667% 7.813% 7.619%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 15
Average daily rate £500 £450 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £210
% change year-on-year
- +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.51 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-14.33% -18.55%
All Vendors
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
150 192 210
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 38.86% 50.79% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 114 164
Average daily rate £575 £525 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.52% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £365 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £674 £600 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
Average hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% +66.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Adobe
London

Adobe
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Adobe across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Canary Wharf Adobe Jobs Demand Trend

Adobe
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Adobe across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Adobe Daily Rate Trend

Adobe
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Adobe across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Adobe Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Adobe 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 Adobe.

1 6 (54.55%) Content Management
1 6 (54.55%) Adobe CQ
2 5 (45.45%) Java SE
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) CMS
4 3 (27.27%) Banking
4 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
4 3 (27.27%) Murex Flex
4 3 (27.27%) Hibernate
4 3 (27.27%) Java EE
4 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
4 3 (27.27%) Spring
4 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
4 3 (27.27%) WebLogic
4 3 (27.27%) Murex MxG2000
4 3 (27.27%) Murex
4 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) C++
4 3 (27.27%) XML
4 3 (27.27%) XSLT
4 3 (27.27%) UNIX
4 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) Flash
5 2 (18.18%) ActionScript
5 2 (18.18%) Internet
5 2 (18.18%) Firewall

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Adobe 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 Adobe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (45.45%) Java SE
2 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
2 3 (27.27%) Murex Flex
2 3 (27.27%) Hibernate
2 3 (27.27%) Java EE
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) XML
2 3 (27.27%) XSLT
2 3 (27.27%) Flash
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Flex
4 1 (9.091%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) Adobe CQ
2 4 (36.36%) CMS
3 3 (27.27%) WebLogic
4 1 (9.091%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Murex MxG2000
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Internet
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.091%) Publishing
3 1 (9.091%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Coordinator
3 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Flex Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
1 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (18.18%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) UNIX
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Content Management
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.091%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) C++
3 2 (18.18%) ActionScript
3 2 (18.18%) ActionScript 3.0
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Murex