The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe
Rank 46 54 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing Adobe 10 11 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.218% 1.012% -
As % of the Vendors category 3.484% 3.274% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £395 £264 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+49.76% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £300 £211
% change year-on-year
-0.83% +42.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.51 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-14.33% -18.55%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
287 336 427
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 34.96% 30.91% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 146 163
Average daily rate £395 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.96% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £206 £249 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £441 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 19
Average hourly rate £20.50 £17.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.58% +11.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £13.65 £13.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £25.25 £21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Adobe
Scotland

Adobe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Adobe Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 8 (66.67%) CSS
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 5 (41.67%) XHTML
3 5 (41.67%) HTML5
4 4 (33.33%) Joomla!
4 4 (33.33%) Publishing
4 4 (33.33%) CMS
4 4 (33.33%) Content Management
4 4 (33.33%) Intranet
4 4 (33.33%) Photoshop
5 3 (25.00%) MS Office
5 3 (25.00%) Java
5 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (25.00%) Web Design
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Acrobat
6 2 (16.67%) LiveCycle
6 2 (16.67%) Multimedia
6 2 (16.67%) Smartphone
6 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
6 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
6 2 (16.67%) SOAP
7 1 (8.333%) Web Services
7 1 (8.333%) Flash
7 1 (8.333%) X.509
7 1 (8.333%) Web Development
7 1 (8.333%) jQuery
7 1 (8.333%) Finance
7 1 (8.333%) Ruby

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 8 (66.67%) CSS
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 5 (41.67%) XHTML
3 5 (41.67%) HTML5
4 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
4 2 (16.67%) SOAP
5 1 (8.333%) Web Services
5 1 (8.333%) Flash
5 1 (8.333%) jQuery
5 1 (8.333%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Joomla!
1 4 (33.33%) CMS
2 2 (16.67%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 3 (25.00%) MS Office
2 3 (25.00%) Acrobat
3 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Intranet
2 1 (8.333%) X.509
General
1 4 (33.33%) Publishing
2 2 (16.67%) Multimedia
3 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Lead Designer
1 5 (41.67%) Designer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Lead Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.333%) WebSphere Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Digital Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Content Management
2 3 (25.00%) Web Design
2 3 (25.00%) TDD
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (8.333%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.333%) Ruby