The first table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash 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 Devon 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
Adobe Flash
Rank 28 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing Flash 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 0.592% 2.186% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.449% 6.897% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £375 £200 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £275 £275
% change year-on-year
+5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £24.39
% change year-on-year
-13.37% -17.99%
All Application Development
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
69 58 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 40.83% 31.69% 50.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 32 36
Average daily rate £340 £308 £376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.56% -18.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Flash
South West

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Devon Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 2 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Flex
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) iPad
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Flash Developer
2 1 (50.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone
1 1 (50.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript