The first table below looks at the demand for Fireworks 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 Fireworks over the 3 months to 21 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 Applications 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Fireworks
Rank - 65 67
Contract jobs citing Fireworks 0 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - 0.124% 0.925%
As % of the Applications category - 1.136% 6.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 9
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £363 £325
% change year-on-year
-10.34% +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £112.50 £13.88 £19.28
% change year-on-year
+710.81% -28.02%
All Applications
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
67 88 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 9.116% 10.93% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 42 76
Average daily rate £300 £311 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.61% -0.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £116 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £487 £420 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +215.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.44 £30.00 £6.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £30.00 £37.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
Fireworks
North West

Fireworks
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Fireworks Jobs Demand Trend

Fireworks
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Fireworks Daily Rate Trend

Fireworks
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Fireworks Hourly Rate Trend

Fireworks
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Fireworks 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 Fireworks.

1 3 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) SEO
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (33.33%) Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) XHTML
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (33.33%) Adobe
3 1 (33.33%) WordPress
3 1 (33.33%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) Local Government
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum

Fireworks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Fireworks 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 Fireworks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SEO
2 1 (33.33%) Web Design
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Web Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe