The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe 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 Vendors for the Cardiff 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe
Rank 24 - 35
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Adobe 4 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.151% - 0.418%
As % of the Vendors category 4.167% - 0.833%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £120 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £300 £216
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +38.72%
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
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
96 102 120
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 51.61% 44.93% 50.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 51 81
Average daily rate £325 £308 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.69% -5.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £162 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
Average hourly rate £12.50 £14.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% -26.31%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £12.25 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.25 £16.45 £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Adobe
South Wales

Adobe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Adobe Daily Rate Trend

Adobe
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) ABAP
1 3 (42.86%) J2EE
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
1 3 (42.86%) FileNet
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 3 (42.86%) J2SE
1 3 (42.86%) ETL
1 3 (42.86%) IBM
1 3 (42.86%) ILOG
1 3 (42.86%) Subversion
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) JSF
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
1 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) Java EE
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 3 (42.86%) J2EE
1 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 3 (42.86%) J2SE
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) JSF
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
2 1 (14.29%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (42.86%) FileNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Subversion
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Software Team Leader
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Development Manager
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) ABAP Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Development Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) J2EE Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) ETL
1 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) ABAP
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
1 3 (42.86%) IBM
1 3 (42.86%) ILOG