The first table below looks at the demand for Acrobat skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Acrobat over the 3 months to 20 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 City of London 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Acrobat
Rank 195 210 228
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +18
Contract jobs citing Acrobat 6 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.095% 0.128% 0.083%
As % of the Applications category 0.799% 1.041% 0.731%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 5
Average daily rate £410 £355 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.49% +18.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £351 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £359 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £255 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
Average hourly rate - £12.50 £26.31
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -52.49%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £16.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+114.92% -4.28%
All Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
751 961 1094
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 11.88% 12.31% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 633 764
Average daily rate £388 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 60 70
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -9.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.80 £12.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.10 £31.70 £33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
Acrobat
London

Acrobat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Acrobat Jobs Demand Trend

Acrobat
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Acrobat across the City of London region.

City of London Acrobat Daily Rate Trend

Acrobat
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Acrobat across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Acrobat Daily Rate Histogram

Acrobat
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Acrobat across the City of London region.

City of London Acrobat Hourly Rate Trend

Acrobat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 (90.00%) Adobe
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (30.00%) Photoshop
3 3 (30.00%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (20.00%) Content Management
4 2 (20.00%) Local Government
4 2 (20.00%) Information Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) WAI
5 1 (10.00%) Video Editing
5 1 (10.00%) Copywriting
5 1 (10.00%) Scala
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
5 1 (10.00%) FrontPage
5 1 (10.00%) PDA
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
5 1 (10.00%) HTTP
5 1 (10.00%) SAP
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Windows
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000
5 1 (10.00%) Flash
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (10.00%) Apple
5 1 (10.00%) Sage
5 1 (10.00%) Internet

Acrobat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 Development
1 1 (10.00%) Flash
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (30.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (30.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) FrontPage
General
1 2 (20.00%) Local Government
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Author
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Author
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Web Editor
3 1 (10.00%) Document Controller
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Writer
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) PDA
1 1 (10.00%) Video Editing
1 1 (10.00%) Copywriting
1 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Content Management
1 2 (20.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) WAI
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Adobe
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) Sage
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy