Chester Acrobat Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe Acrobat skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Acrobat over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Acrobat
Location Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Corby Devon East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Exeter Hampshire Lewes London M4 Corridor Manchester North West Northamptonshire Peterborough Reading Runcorn South East South West Swindon UK West Midlands Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£239
% change on same period last year	+24.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.13	£19.65
% change on same period last year	+7.51 %
Applications Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	40	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.024 %
Daily rates quoted	8	4
Average minimum daily rate	£235	£167
Average daily rate	£235	£171
% change on same period last year	+37.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£235	£175
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£274
% change on same period last year	+11.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.23	£22.38
Average hourly rate	£20.19	£22.63
% change on same period last year	-10.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.15	£22.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.28	£19.15
% change on same period last year	+0.63 %
Acrobat Cheshire

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.

Acrobat
Demand Trend

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