Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the City of London region.

 Adobe Flash
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank12577134
Rank change year-on-year
Down-48Up+57
Matching contract IT job ads948171
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London1.101 %2.004 %0.901 %
As % of the Application Development category3.777 %7.465 %3.561 %
Daily rates quoted522639
Average daily rate£289£250£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.50 %-16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£213£200£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£445£400£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£240£238£250
% change year-on-year
+1.050 %-5.000 %
Hourly rates quoted012
Average hourly rate-£28.00£33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--17.03 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.50£20.41£28.75
% change year-on-year
+64.17 %-29.02 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
248910851994
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London29.15 %26.85 %25.32 %
Daily rates quoted1709557996
Average daily rate£500£400£460
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00 %-13.04 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£251£290
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted211247
Average hourly rate£36.00£28.00£34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57 %-17.64 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.00£27.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£62.50£39.00£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %-7.690 %
Flash LondonFlash
London

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.

Flash
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The 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 March 2010.

City of London Flash Daily Rate Histogram

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 March 2010, 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.

184 (46.93 %)ActionScript
274 (41.34 %)XML
347 (26.26 %)JavaScript
443 (24.02 %)CSS
443 (24.02 %)Photoshop
443 (24.02 %)ActionScript 3.0
542 (23.46 %)HTML
638 (21.23 %)Adobe Flex
733 (18.44 %)ActionScript 2.0
827 (15.08 %)Adobe
925 (13.97 %)XHTML
1024 (13.41 %)Adobe Illustrator
1122 (12.29 %)Games
1221 (11.73 %)AJAX
1319 (10.61 %)Java
1319 (10.61 %).NET
1418 (10.06 %)E-Commerce
1418 (10.06 %)Internet
1517 (9.497 %)Finance
1517 (9.497 %)Web Development
1616 (8.939 %)Content Management
1616 (8.939 %)OO
1714 (7.821 %)PHP
1714 (7.821 %)Project Management
1813 (7.263 %)Agile Software Development
1813 (7.263 %)Banking
1813 (7.263 %)W3C
1813 (7.263 %)C++
1911 (6.145 %)SQL
1911 (6.145 %)Investment Banking

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
174 (41.34 %)XML
243 (24.02 %)CSS
342 (23.46 %)HTML
438 (21.23 %)Adobe Flex
525 (13.97 %)XHTML
621 (11.73 %)AJAX
719 (10.61 %).NET
89 (5.028 %)DHTML
96 (3.352 %)JSP
96 (3.352 %)Web Services
96 (3.352 %)CGI
105 (2.793 %)SOAP
105 (2.793 %)ASP
105 (2.793 %)ASP.NET
105 (2.793 %)jQuery
114 (2.235 %)Spring
114 (2.235 %)XSLT
123 (1.676 %)Hibernate
123 (1.676 %)Silverlight
123 (1.676 %)MXML
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
19 (5.028 %)CMS
25 (2.793 %)ColdFusion
33 (1.676 %)SharePoint
42 (1.117 %)Apache
51 (0.559 %)TeamSite
51 (0.559 %)Tomcat
51 (0.559 %)MindAlign
51 (0.559 %)ExpressionEngine
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
143 (24.02 %)Photoshop
224 (13.41 %)Adobe Illustrator
35 (2.793 %)MS Visio
35 (2.793 %)Spreadsheet
44 (2.235 %)Fireworks
53 (1.676 %)3ds Max
53 (1.676 %)InDesign
62 (1.117 %)Adobe After Effects
62 (1.117 %)MS PowerPoint
62 (1.117 %)LightWave 3D
71 (0.559 %)MS Project
71 (0.559 %)MS Office
71 (0.559 %)Maya
71 (0.559 %)Adobe Premiere
71 (0.559 %)Acrobat
71 (0.559 %)FreeHand
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.559 %)SAP Business One
11 (0.559 %)SAP BPC
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
118 (10.06 %)Internet
24 (2.235 %)FTP
33 (1.676 %)HTTP
41 (0.559 %)DNS
41 (0.559 %)Intranet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
18 (4.469 %)SQL Server
26 (3.352 %)MySQL
32 (1.117 %)SQL Server 2005
41 (0.559 %)RDBMS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
110 (5.587 %)Subversion
110 (5.587 %)Dreamweaver
27 (3.911 %)ClearQuest
27 (3.911 %)WinRunner
27 (3.911 %)Flex Builder
27 (3.911 %)JIRA
35 (2.793 %)Eclipse
35 (2.793 %)Expression Blend
44 (2.235 %)Flash Builder
53 (1.676 %)Selenium
53 (1.676 %)FlexUnit
62 (1.117 %)Expression Web
62 (1.117 %)QuickTest Pro
62 (1.117 %)Xcode
71 (0.559 %)swfmill
71 (0.559 %)Maven
71 (0.559 %)AsUnit
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
122 (12.29 %)Games
217 (9.497 %)Finance
313 (7.263 %)Banking
411 (6.145 %)Investment Banking
411 (6.145 %)Graphic Design
411 (6.145 %)Animation
59 (5.028 %)Marketing
67 (3.911 %)Advertising
76 (3.352 %)Online Games
76 (3.352 %)Telecoms
85 (2.793 %)Video Editing
85 (2.793 %)Multimedia
94 (2.235 %)Music
103 (1.676 %)Retail
112 (1.117 %)Retail Banking
112 (1.117 %)Electronics
121 (0.559 %)Front Office
121 (0.559 %)Publishing
121 (0.559 %)Automotive
121 (0.559 %)Construction
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1103 (57.54 %)Developer
250 (27.93 %)Flash Developer
338 (21.23 %)Designer
416 (8.939 %)ActionScript Developer
416 (8.939 %)Analyst
416 (8.939 %)Web Developer
514 (7.821 %)Flash Designer
514 (7.821 %)Flex Developer
613 (7.263 %)Web Designer
710 (5.587 %)Test Analyst
89 (5.028 %)Project Manager
97 (3.911 %)Tester
106 (3.352 %)C++ Developer
106 (3.352 %)Front-End Developer
106 (3.352 %)Business Analyst
115 (2.793 %)Senior Analyst
115 (2.793 %)Technical Project Manager
115 (2.793 %)Senior Business Analyst
115 (2.793 %)Technical Manager
115 (2.793 %)E-Learning Developer
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
113 (7.263 %)W3C
210 (5.587 %)Web 2.0
39 (5.028 %)Social Network
48 (4.469 %)iPhone
48 (4.469 %)E-Learning
57 (3.911 %)SCORM
66 (3.352 %)Flash Lite
66 (3.352 %)RIA
75 (2.793 %)Visualisation
84 (2.235 %)Open Source
84 (2.235 %)Interactive TV
93 (1.676 %)Wiki
93 (1.676 %)PDA
93 (1.676 %)Streaming Media
93 (1.676 %)Fixed Income
102 (1.117 %)Pocket PC
102 (1.117 %)Blackberry
111 (0.559 %)Client/Server
111 (0.559 %)BBC
111 (0.559 %)Streaming Video
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15 (2.793 %)Linux
24 (2.235 %)Windows
32 (1.117 %)Android
32 (1.117 %)Windows CE
32 (1.117 %)UNIX
41 (0.559 %)CentOS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
118 (10.06 %)E-Commerce
217 (9.497 %)Web Development
316 (8.939 %)Content Management
316 (8.939 %)OO
414 (7.821 %)Project Management
513 (7.263 %)Agile Software Development
611 (6.145 %)Information Architecture
79 (5.028 %)Configuration Management
79 (5.028 %)SEO
79 (5.028 %)OOP
87 (3.911 %)Resource Management
87 (3.911 %)Software Testing
96 (3.352 %)Business Analysis
96 (3.352 %)MVC
105 (2.793 %)Scrum
105 (2.793 %)Time Management
114 (2.235 %)Online Marketing
114 (2.235 %)Web Design
114 (2.235 %)Change Management
114 (2.235 %)UML
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
184 (46.93 %)ActionScript
247 (26.26 %)JavaScript
343 (24.02 %)ActionScript 3.0
433 (18.44 %)ActionScript 2.0
519 (10.61 %)Java
614 (7.821 %)PHP
713 (7.263 %)C++
811 (6.145 %)SQL
910 (5.587 %)C
105 (2.793 %)C#
113 (1.676 %)PHP5
122 (1.117 %)Ruby
122 (1.117 %)Objective-C
122 (1.117 %)Python
131 (0.559 %)T-SQL
131 (0.559 %)VB.NET
131 (0.559 %)VBA
131 (0.559 %)Shell Script
131 (0.559 %)PHP4
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14 (2.235 %)Degree
23 (1.676 %)ISEB
31 (0.559 %)A+ Certification
31 (0.559 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
19 (5.028 %)QA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
127 (15.08 %)Adobe
28 (4.469 %)Perforce
36 (3.352 %)Microsoft
45 (2.793 %)RedDot
52 (1.117 %)Zend
52 (1.117 %)Symbian
52 (1.117 %)Sybase
61 (0.559 %)SAP
61 (0.559 %)Oracle
61 (0.559 %)IBM
61 (0.559 %)Macromedia
61 (0.559 %)Sony
61 (0.559 %)telerik