Cheshire Acrobat Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe Acrobat skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Acrobat over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Acrobat
Location Aberdeen Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent London Maidstone North West Oxfordshire Scotland Solihull South East South West Southampton UK Ware West Midlands Westminster	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	59
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.143 %	0.775 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£400
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£243	£171
% change on same period last year	+42.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.75	-
Average hourly rate	£8.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£8.75	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.94	£17.00
% change on same period last year	+34.95 %
Applications Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	140	129
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.186 %	0.132 %
Daily rates quoted	32	40
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£174
Average daily rate	£280	£179
% change on same period last year	+56.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£292	£184
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£284
% change on same period last year	+5.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.13	£14.47
Average hourly rate	£18.11	£14.72
% change on same period last year	+23.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.08	£14.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.25	£19.10
% change on same period last year	-4.45 %
Acrobat North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Acrobat across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications 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 Acrobat across the Cheshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Acrobat 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 Acrobat.

1 9 (81.82 %) Graphic Design 2 8 (72.73 %) Adobe 3 6 (54.55 %) Publishing 4 5 (45.45 %) MS Excel 5 3 (27.27 %) Photoshop 5 3 (27.27 %) Quark 5 3 (27.27 %) QuarkXPress 5 3 (27.27 %) FreeHand 5 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 5 3 (27.27 %) Advertising 5 3 (27.27 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 3 (27.27 %) Marketing 6 2 (18.18 %) Government 7 1 (9.091 %) Health 7 1 (9.091 %) Aerospace

7 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 7 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (9.091 %) Lotus 7 1 (9.091 %) LAN 7 1 (9.091 %) WAN 7 1 (9.091 %) SLA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Acrobat 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 Acrobat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 5 (45.45 %) MS Excel 2 3 (27.27 %) QuarkXPress 2 3 (27.27 %) FreeHand 2 3 (27.27 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 3 (27.27 %) Photoshop 3 1 (9.091 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) LAN 1 1 (9.091 %) WAN	General 1 9 (81.82 %) Graphic Design 2 6 (54.55 %) Publishing 3 3 (27.27 %) Marketing 3 3 (27.27 %) Advertising 4 2 (18.18 %) Government 5 1 (9.091 %) Health 5 1 (9.091 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 7 (63.64 %) Author 1 7 (63.64 %) Technical Author 2 1 (9.091 %) Technical Architect 2 1 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support 2 1 (9.091 %) Senior Technical Author 2 1 (9.091 %) Graduate 2 1 (9.091 %) Architect	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) SLA
Vendors 1 8 (72.73 %) Adobe 2 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 3 (27.27 %) Quark 3 1 (9.091 %) Lotus