The first table below looks at the demand for Apache Flex 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex)
Rank 190 199 162
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -37
Contract jobs citing Apache Flex 13 19 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.204% 0.242% 0.868%
As % of the Application Development category 0.714% 0.942% 3.101%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 64
Average daily rate £450 £550 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% +4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £286 £303 £367
10% offered a daily rate of more than £605 £580 £668
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1821 2016 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.55% 25.63% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1439 1499 2137
Average daily rate £405 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.00 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Apache Flex
London

Apache Flex
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Apache Flex Daily Rate Trend

Apache Flex
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Apache Flex Daily Rate Histogram

Apache Flex
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Apache Flex Hourly Rate Trend

Apache Flex
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 12 (44.44%) Flash
2 10 (37.04%) CSS
2 10 (37.04%) Java
2 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
2 10 (37.04%) HTML5
3 8 (29.63%) Banking
3 8 (29.63%) Adobe
4 7 (25.93%) Finance
4 7 (25.93%) ActionScript
5 6 (22.22%) .NET
6 5 (18.52%) Photoshop
6 5 (18.52%) C#
6 5 (18.52%) UNIX
6 5 (18.52%) OO
6 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
6 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
6 5 (18.52%) jQuery
7 4 (14.81%) ActionScript 3.0
7 4 (14.81%) RIA
7 4 (14.81%) Ajax
7 4 (14.81%) Degree
7 4 (14.81%) Silverlight
7 4 (14.81%) Python
7 4 (14.81%) HTML
7 4 (14.81%) SQL
7 4 (14.81%) Internet
7 4 (14.81%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (11.11%) Scrum
8 3 (11.11%) XAML
8 3 (11.11%) XML

Apache Flex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 12 (44.44%) Flash
2 10 (37.04%) CSS
2 10 (37.04%) HTML5
3 6 (22.22%) .NET
4 5 (18.52%) jQuery
5 4 (14.81%) Ajax
5 4 (14.81%) Silverlight
5 4 (14.81%) HTML
6 3 (11.11%) XML
6 3 (11.11%) JSON
6 3 (11.11%) Spring
6 3 (11.11%) WPF
6 3 (11.11%) CSS3
7 2 (7.407%) Adobe AIR
7 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET
7 2 (7.407%) Hibernate
7 2 (7.407%) Parsley
8 1 (3.704%) WinForms
8 1 (3.704%) LAMP
8 1 (3.704%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.704%) IIS
1 1 (3.704%) Apache
1 1 (3.704%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Photoshop
2 4 (14.81%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Internet
2 2 (7.407%) HTTP
3 1 (3.704%) SPDY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.704%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Expression Blend
2 2 (7.407%) Jasmine
2 2 (7.407%) Subversion
3 1 (3.704%) Maven
3 1 (3.704%) Flash Builder
General
1 8 (29.63%) Banking
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.407%) Multimedia
5 1 (3.704%) Publishing
5 1 (3.704%) Games
5 1 (3.704%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Flex Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Designer
4 2 (7.407%) User Experience Designer
4 2 (7.407%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (7.407%) ActionScript Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.407%) WPF Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (3.704%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.704%) PHP Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Flash Developer
5 1 (3.704%) HTML Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
2 4 (14.81%) RIA
3 2 (7.407%) Derivative
3 2 (7.407%) E-Learning
3 2 (7.407%) Mathematics
3 2 (7.407%) Graphic Design
3 2 (7.407%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.407%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.704%) Equities
4 1 (3.704%) Photography
4 1 (3.704%) Visualisation
4 1 (3.704%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) UNIX
2 3 (11.11%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) OO
2 3 (11.11%) Scrum
3 2 (7.407%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (7.407%) TDD
3 2 (7.407%) OOP
3 2 (7.407%) MVC
4 1 (3.704%) Risk Management
4 1 (3.704%) Migration
4 1 (3.704%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.704%) Business Analysis
4 1 (3.704%) AOP
4 1 (3.704%) Automated Testing
4 1 (3.704%) Resource Management
4 1 (3.704%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (3.704%) Web Development
4 1 (3.704%) Data Analysis
4 1 (3.704%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (3.704%) Performance Management
4 1 (3.704%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Java
1 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
2 7 (25.93%) ActionScript
3 5 (18.52%) C#
4 4 (14.81%) ActionScript 3.0
4 4 (14.81%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) XAML
5 3 (11.11%) Perl
6 2 (7.407%) PHP
7 1 (3.704%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.704%) VB.NET
7 1 (3.704%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (3.704%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Adobe
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.407%) Oracle
4 1 (3.704%) OPNET
4 1 (3.704%) HP
4 1 (3.704%) BMC
4 1 (3.704%) CA
4 1 (3.704%) Sybase
4 1 (3.704%) Google
4 1 (3.704%) Zend
4 1 (3.704%) Tealeaf
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