The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Flex skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apache Flex 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 of the Application Development category for the Cheshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex)
Rank 62 57 62
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +5
Contract jobs citing Apache Flex 1 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.138% 0.751% 1.032%
As % of the Application Development category 0.617% 2.609% 3.788%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
Average daily rate £300 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £288 £325
% change year-on-year
+21.73% -11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £40.75 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+22.69% -2.97%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
162 230 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.38% 28.79% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 123 176
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Apache Flex
North West

Apache Flex
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Apache Flex Jobs Demand Trend

Apache Flex
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Apache Flex across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Apache Flex Daily Rate Trend

Apache Flex
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Flex within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Chester - 1 £300 -
Apache Flex
North West

Apache Flex
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Apache Flex 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 Apache Flex.

1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Flash
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe
1 3 (100.00%) TELNET
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) TestNG
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) MyEclipse
2 2 (66.67%) Mercurial
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development

Apache Flex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Apache Flex 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 Apache Flex. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Flash
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (100.00%) TestNG
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) MyEclipse
2 2 (66.67%) Mercurial
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe