The first table below looks at the demand for Flash 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 Flash over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash
Rank 166 158 123
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -35
Contract jobs citing Flash 35 55 134
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.556% 0.707% 1.362%
As % of the Application Development category 1.949% 2.826% 4.925%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 38 98
Average daily rate £290 £316 £381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.30% -17.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £196 £148
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £263
% change year-on-year
+16.50% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -53.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £26.39
% change year-on-year
-13.37% -24.21%
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1796 1946 2721
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.53% 25.01% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1418 1430 2105
Average daily rate £410 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -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 26 27 21
Average hourly rate £41.75 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+67.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Flash
London

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Flash Jobs Demand Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Flash Daily Rate Histogram

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Flash 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 Flash.

1 34 (53.97%) HTML
2 32 (50.79%) CSS
3 25 (39.68%) Photoshop
3 25 (39.68%) JavaScript
4 21 (33.33%) HTML5
5 18 (28.57%) Adobe
6 15 (23.81%) E-Commerce
7 13 (20.63%) ActionScript
7 13 (20.63%) Web Design
7 13 (20.63%) Degree
7 13 (20.63%) jQuery
8 12 (19.05%) Telecoms
8 12 (19.05%) OO
9 11 (17.46%) CMS
9 11 (17.46%) Marketing
9 11 (17.46%) Apache Flex
10 10 (15.87%) Adobe Illustrator
10 10 (15.87%) Internet
11 9 (14.29%) OOP
11 9 (14.29%) XHTML
11 9 (14.29%) PHP
11 9 (14.29%) ActionScript 3.0
11 9 (14.29%) Adobe CQ
12 8 (12.70%) Java
12 8 (12.70%) .NET
12 8 (12.70%) MVC
12 8 (12.70%) MS Visio
13 7 (11.11%) JSON
13 7 (11.11%) TDD
13 7 (11.11%) Scrum

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Flash 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 Flash. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (53.97%) HTML
2 32 (50.79%) CSS
3 21 (33.33%) HTML5
4 13 (20.63%) jQuery
5 11 (17.46%) Apache Flex
6 9 (14.29%) XHTML
7 8 (12.70%) .NET
8 7 (11.11%) XML
8 7 (11.11%) JSON
9 6 (9.524%) Silverlight
9 6 (9.524%) Ajax
10 5 (7.937%) REST
11 4 (6.349%) CSS3
11 4 (6.349%) WPF
12 3 (4.762%) BREW
12 3 (4.762%) Java ME
12 3 (4.762%) AngularJS
13 2 (3.175%) HTML5 Canvas
13 2 (3.175%) Ember.js
13 2 (3.175%) SVG
Application Platforms
1 11 (17.46%) CMS
2 9 (14.29%) Adobe CQ
3 4 (6.349%) Drupal
4 1 (1.587%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 25 (39.68%) Photoshop
2 10 (15.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 8 (12.70%) MS Visio
4 3 (4.762%) Fireworks
5 1 (1.587%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (1.587%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (1.587%) Shockwave
5 1 (1.587%) Quicktime
5 1 (1.587%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.87%) Internet
2 2 (3.175%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.587%) SAN
3 1 (1.587%) Broadband
3 1 (1.587%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.937%) MySQL
2 3 (4.762%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (9.524%) Dreamweaver
2 5 (7.937%) Git (software)
3 4 (6.349%) Maven
3 4 (6.349%) Expression Blend
3 4 (6.349%) Eclipse
4 3 (4.762%) Subversion
4 3 (4.762%) Ant
4 3 (4.762%) JUnit
5 2 (3.175%) Flash Builder
5 2 (3.175%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.587%) GitHub
6 1 (1.587%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.587%) Hudson
6 1 (1.587%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (19.05%) Telecoms
2 11 (17.46%) Marketing
3 7 (11.11%) Publishing
3 7 (11.11%) Finance
3 7 (11.11%) Legal
4 5 (7.937%) Banking
5 3 (4.762%) Retail
5 3 (4.762%) Multimedia
5 3 (4.762%) Advertising
5 3 (4.762%) Games
6 1 (1.587%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (61.90%) Developer
2 12 (19.05%) Web Developer
3 9 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
4 8 (12.70%) Web Producer
4 8 (12.70%) Designer
5 7 (11.11%) Flash Developer
6 6 (9.524%) Lead Developer
7 4 (6.349%) UI Developer
7 4 (6.349%) Front-End Web Developer
7 4 (6.349%) Lead Web Developer
7 4 (6.349%) UI Programmer
8 3 (4.762%) ActionScript Developer
8 3 (4.762%) Web Designer
9 2 (3.175%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.175%) PHP Developer
9 2 (3.175%) JavaScript Developer
9 2 (3.175%) Junior
9 2 (3.175%) Blackberry Developer
9 2 (3.175%) Digital Designer
9 2 (3.175%) Flash ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.937%) Graphic Design
1 5 (7.937%) Visualisation
1 5 (7.937%) Open Source
1 5 (7.937%) Digital Media
1 5 (7.937%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.349%) RIA
3 3 (4.762%) Social Media
3 3 (4.762%) iPhone
3 3 (4.762%) Blackberry
3 3 (4.762%) New Media
3 3 (4.762%) Flash Lite
4 2 (3.175%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.175%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.175%) E-Learning
4 2 (3.175%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.175%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.587%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.587%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.587%) Web 2.0
5 1 (1.587%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.524%) Windows
2 3 (4.762%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (4.762%) Android
3 1 (1.587%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.587%) Windows Phone 7
3 1 (1.587%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.587%) Windows Phone
3 1 (1.587%) Linux
3 1 (1.587%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.587%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.81%) E-Commerce
2 13 (20.63%) Web Design
3 12 (19.05%) OO
4 9 (14.29%) OOP
5 8 (12.70%) MVC
6 7 (11.11%) Scrum
6 7 (11.11%) TDD
7 6 (9.524%) Web Development
8 5 (7.937%) Content Management
8 5 (7.937%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (6.349%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (6.349%) Project Management
10 3 (4.762%) BDD
10 3 (4.762%) Analytics
11 2 (3.175%) Data Modelling
11 2 (3.175%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (3.175%) Multithreading
12 1 (1.587%) Dependency Injection
12 1 (1.587%) Capacity Planning
12 1 (1.587%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) JavaScript
2 13 (20.63%) ActionScript
3 9 (14.29%) PHP
3 9 (14.29%) ActionScript 3.0
4 8 (12.70%) Java
5 5 (7.937%) C#
6 4 (6.349%) XAML
6 4 (6.349%) SQL
7 3 (4.762%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (3.175%) Python
9 1 (1.587%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.587%) PowerHouse
9 1 (1.587%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.587%) Ruby
9 1 (1.587%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (20.63%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.587%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.587%) Tivoli
1 1 (1.587%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Adobe
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.349%) Facebook
3 4 (6.349%) Twitter
4 3 (4.762%) Google
5 2 (3.175%) Zend
5 2 (3.175%) Apple
6 1 (1.587%) EMC
6 1 (1.587%) Oracle
6 1 (1.587%) Cisco
6 1 (1.587%) IBM
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