The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services 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 Adobe 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Adobe Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe
Rank 143 170 154
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -16
Contract jobs citing Adobe 60 48 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.941% 0.610% 0.949%
As % of the Vendors category 2.074% 1.446% 2.255%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 73
Average daily rate £325 £360 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.72% -12.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £235 £134
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £210
% change year-on-year
- +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 6
Average hourly rate £41.50 £19.00 £20.81
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+118.42% -8.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.30 £19.00 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.15 £19.00 £28.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.51 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-14.33% -18.55%
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2893 3319 4124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.35% 42.20% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2051 2268 2847
Average daily rate £431 £425 £489
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.47% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £285 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 101 131
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.00 £39.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Adobe
London

Adobe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Adobe Jobs Demand Trend

Adobe
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Adobe Daily Rate Trend

Adobe
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Adobe across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Adobe Daily Rate Histogram

Adobe
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Adobe Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Adobe across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Adobe Hourly Rate Histogram

Adobe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Adobe 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 Adobe.

1 39 (32.77%) Photoshop
2 38 (31.93%) HTML
3 35 (29.41%) Adobe CQ
4 29 (24.37%) Microsoft
5 24 (20.17%) Finance
6 23 (19.33%) CMS
7 22 (18.49%) CSS
8 21 (17.65%) E-Commerce
8 21 (17.65%) Banking
9 19 (15.97%) Java
10 18 (15.13%) Flash
10 18 (15.13%) Degree
11 16 (13.45%) MS Excel
11 16 (13.45%) JavaScript
11 16 (13.45%) Adobe Illustrator
12 14 (11.76%) Adobe Captivate
12 14 (11.76%) Retail
13 13 (10.92%) Web Design
13 13 (10.92%) Marketing
13 13 (10.92%) E-Learning
13 13 (10.92%) Telecoms
13 13 (10.92%) MS Office
13 13 (10.92%) Windows
14 12 (10.08%) Content Management
15 11 (9.244%) Publishing
16 10 (8.403%) Front Office
16 10 (8.403%) Internet
16 10 (8.403%) .NET
16 10 (8.403%) MS Visio
17 9 (7.563%) CRM

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Adobe 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 Adobe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (31.93%) HTML
2 22 (18.49%) CSS
3 18 (15.13%) Flash
4 10 (8.403%) .NET
5 9 (7.563%) jQuery
6 8 (6.723%) Apache Flex
6 8 (6.723%) HTML5
7 7 (5.882%) CSS3
7 7 (5.882%) XML
8 5 (4.202%) Google Maps API
8 5 (4.202%) Web Services
8 5 (4.202%) Silverlight
9 4 (3.361%) CodeIgniter
9 4 (3.361%) CakePHP
9 4 (3.361%) WPF
9 4 (3.361%) Adobe AIR
9 4 (3.361%) iOS SDK
9 4 (3.361%) Semantic HTML
10 3 (2.521%) XHTML
10 3 (2.521%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 35 (29.41%) Adobe CQ
2 23 (19.33%) CMS
3 3 (2.521%) Apache
4 2 (1.681%) WorkSite
4 2 (1.681%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.840%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.840%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (0.840%) LiveCycle
5 1 (0.840%) CM System
5 1 (0.840%) Lync
5 1 (0.840%) IIS
5 1 (0.840%) FileNet
5 1 (0.840%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.840%) CoreMedia CMS
5 1 (0.840%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.840%) Drupal
Applications
1 39 (32.77%) Photoshop
2 16 (13.45%) MS Excel
2 16 (13.45%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (11.76%) Adobe Captivate
4 13 (10.92%) MS Office
5 10 (8.403%) MS Visio
6 9 (7.563%) MS PowerPoint
7 8 (6.723%) Acrobat
8 4 (3.361%) OmniGraffle
9 2 (1.681%) Fireworks
9 2 (1.681%) InDesign
9 2 (1.681%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (1.681%) Vectorworks
10 1 (0.840%) Quicktime
10 1 (0.840%) Maya
10 1 (0.840%) RoboHelp
10 1 (0.840%) FreeHand
10 1 (0.840%) SketchUp
10 1 (0.840%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 9 (7.563%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.202%) SiteCatalyst
3 2 (1.681%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.840%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.840%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.840%) SAP HCM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.403%) Internet
2 4 (3.361%) Intranet
2 4 (3.361%) HTTP
3 1 (0.840%) Broadband
3 1 (0.840%) VoIP
3 1 (0.840%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.840%) SAN
3 1 (0.840%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.681%) SQL Server
1 2 (1.681%) MS Access
2 1 (0.840%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (0.840%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (0.840%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (0.840%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (5.042%) Git (software)
2 5 (4.202%) Expression Blend
2 5 (4.202%) Selenium
3 4 (3.361%) JIRA
3 4 (3.361%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.681%) Subversion
4 2 (1.681%) Balsamiq Mockups
5 1 (0.840%) Mockito
5 1 (0.840%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.840%) JBehave
5 1 (0.840%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.840%) GitHub
5 1 (0.840%) Hudson
5 1 (0.840%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.840%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.840%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.840%) JUnit
5 1 (0.840%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.840%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.840%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (20.17%) Finance
2 21 (17.65%) Banking
3 14 (11.76%) Retail
4 13 (10.92%) Marketing
4 13 (10.92%) Telecoms
5 11 (9.244%) Publishing
6 10 (8.403%) Front Office
7 9 (7.563%) Legal
8 7 (5.882%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.361%) Games
10 3 (2.521%) Law
11 2 (1.681%) Local Government
11 2 (1.681%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.840%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.840%) Portuguese Language
12 1 (0.840%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (24.37%) Developer
2 23 (19.33%) Designer
3 12 (10.08%) Trainer
3 12 (10.08%) User Experience Designer
4 8 (6.723%) Web Producer
5 7 (5.882%) Analyst
6 6 (5.042%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.042%) Consultant
7 5 (4.202%) Visual Designer
7 5 (4.202%) Architect
7 5 (4.202%) IT Trainer
8 4 (3.361%) PHP Developer
8 4 (3.361%) Senior PHP Developer
8 4 (3.361%) Tester
9 3 (2.521%) Content Manager
9 3 (2.521%) Author
9 3 (2.521%) Technical Author
9 3 (2.521%) Functional Tester
9 3 (2.521%) Graphic Designer
9 3 (2.521%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.92%) E-Learning
2 4 (3.361%) Statistics
2 4 (3.361%) Social Media
3 3 (2.521%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.521%) Blackberry
3 3 (2.521%) W3C
3 3 (2.521%) RIA
3 3 (2.521%) Copywriting
4 2 (1.681%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.681%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (1.681%) Graphic Design
4 2 (1.681%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.681%) Open Source
5 1 (0.840%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.840%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.840%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.840%) Social Gaming
5 1 (0.840%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.840%) Handset
5 1 (0.840%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.92%) Windows
2 8 (6.723%) Android
2 8 (6.723%) Windows 7
3 7 (5.882%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.042%) UNIX
4 6 (5.042%) Linux
5 2 (1.681%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.681%) Windows Phone 7
5 2 (1.681%) Windows Phone
6 1 (0.840%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.840%) Windows 2000
6 1 (0.840%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (17.65%) E-Commerce
2 13 (10.92%) Web Design
3 12 (10.08%) Content Management
4 9 (7.563%) CRM
5 8 (6.723%) OO
5 8 (6.723%) User Experience Design
5 8 (6.723%) Analytics
6 7 (5.882%) Project Management
7 6 (5.042%) Web Analytics
7 6 (5.042%) Workflow
7 6 (5.042%) SEO
7 6 (5.042%) MVC
8 5 (4.202%) Migration
8 5 (4.202%) Scrum
8 5 (4.202%) Usability Testing
8 5 (4.202%) Automated Testing
8 5 (4.202%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (4.202%) TDD
9 4 (3.361%) Web Development
9 4 (3.361%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.97%) Java
2 16 (13.45%) JavaScript
3 9 (7.563%) XAML
4 8 (6.723%) PHP
4 8 (6.723%) SQL
5 7 (5.882%) C#
6 4 (3.361%) Objective-C
7 3 (2.521%) Python
7 3 (2.521%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.681%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.681%) ActionScript 3.0
9 1 (0.840%) VBA
9 1 (0.840%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.840%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (15.13%) Degree
2 6 (5.042%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.840%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.840%) BC Cleared
3 1 (0.840%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (0.840%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.202%) QA
2 2 (1.681%) WAI
3 1 (0.840%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.681%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.840%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.361%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.840%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 29 (24.37%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.882%) Google
3 6 (5.042%) Facebook
4 5 (4.202%) Twitter
5 4 (3.361%) Apple
6 3 (2.521%) hybris
6 3 (2.521%) Citrix
6 3 (2.521%) Omniture
7 2 (1.681%) Open Text
7 2 (1.681%) RedDot
7 2 (1.681%) SAP
8 1 (0.840%) Cisco
8 1 (0.840%) IBM
8 1 (0.840%) Lotus
8 1 (0.840%) Oracle
8 1 (0.840%) VMware
8 1 (0.840%) Perforce
8 1 (0.840%) Remedy
8 1 (0.840%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.840%) Coremetrics
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