The first table below looks at the demand for Fireworks skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fireworks over the 3 months to 20 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 Applications category for the England 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Fireworks
Rank 433 495 475
Rank change year-on-year
+62 -20
Contract jobs citing Fireworks 70 71 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.168% 0.133% 0.171%
As % of the Applications category 1.256% 1.060% 1.417%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 37 59
Average daily rate £325 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £151 £205 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £625 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £363 £325
% change year-on-year
-10.34% +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
Average hourly rate £112.50 £15.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+650.00% +15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £112.50 £13.88 £13.00
% change year-on-year
+710.81% +6.73%
All Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
5573 6700 6706
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 13.36% 12.55% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2875 3456 3348
Average daily rate £340 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £175 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £525 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 655 707 828
Average hourly rate £16.50 £16.00 £16.35
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -2.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
Fireworks
UK

Fireworks
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Fireworks across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

England Fireworks Jobs Demand Trend

Fireworks
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Fireworks across the England region.

England Fireworks Daily Rate Trend

Fireworks
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fireworks across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England Fireworks Daily Rate Histogram

Fireworks
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Fireworks Hourly Rate Trend

Fireworks
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fireworks across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England Fireworks Hourly Rate Histogram

Fireworks
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fireworks within the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London -5 25 £285 +14.00%
South East +35 15 £325 -7.14%
East of England +29 13 £388 +6.89%
South West +31 9 £140 -
North West +18 6 - -
North East - 1 - -
Fireworks
UK

Fireworks
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Fireworks 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 Fireworks.

1 109 (83.21%) Photoshop
2 86 (65.65%) CSS
3 66 (50.38%) HTML
4 65 (49.62%) JavaScript
5 56 (42.75%) Adobe Illustrator
6 51 (38.93%) HTML5
7 38 (29.01%) jQuery
8 36 (27.48%) Adobe
9 32 (24.43%) E-Commerce
10 31 (23.66%) CSS3
11 26 (19.85%) Axure RP
11 26 (19.85%) XHTML
12 23 (17.56%) Marketing
13 22 (16.79%) Ajax
13 22 (16.79%) Web Design
13 22 (16.79%) Flash
14 21 (16.03%) Web Development
15 20 (15.27%) Dreamweaver
15 20 (15.27%) Information Architecture
16 18 (13.74%) PHP
17 17 (12.98%) User Experience Design
18 16 (12.21%) MS Visio
19 15 (11.45%) CMS
20 14 (10.69%) SEO
20 14 (10.69%) Retail
20 14 (10.69%) XML
20 14 (10.69%) .NET
21 13 (9.924%) Project Management
22 12 (9.160%) Agile Software Development
23 11 (8.397%) Microsoft

Fireworks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Fireworks 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 Fireworks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 86 (65.65%) CSS
2 66 (50.38%) HTML
3 51 (38.93%) HTML5
4 38 (29.01%) jQuery
5 31 (23.66%) CSS3
6 26 (19.85%) XHTML
7 22 (16.79%) Ajax
7 22 (16.79%) Flash
8 14 (10.69%) XML
8 14 (10.69%) .NET
9 9 (6.870%) XSLT
10 7 (5.344%) JSON
11 6 (4.580%) ASP.NET
12 5 (3.817%) WPF
12 5 (3.817%) Silverlight
13 3 (2.290%) JSP
13 3 (2.290%) XSL
13 3 (2.290%) KnockoutJS
13 3 (2.290%) LAMP
13 3 (2.290%) SignalR
Application Platforms
1 15 (11.45%) CMS
2 4 (3.053%) IIS
2 4 (3.053%) WordPress
3 3 (2.290%) Apache
3 3 (2.290%) Drupal
3 3 (2.290%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.527%) Moodle
5 1 (0.763%) CM System
5 1 (0.763%) Liferay
5 1 (0.763%) Tomcat
Applications
1 109 (83.21%) Photoshop
2 56 (42.75%) Adobe Illustrator
3 16 (12.21%) MS Visio
4 8 (6.107%) OmniGraffle
5 5 (3.817%) MS Office
6 4 (3.053%) InDesign
6 4 (3.053%) Acrobat
7 2 (1.527%) QuarkXPress
7 2 (1.527%) FreeHand
8 1 (0.763%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.290%) Summit
1 3 (2.290%) Google Analytics
2 2 (1.527%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.527%) FTP
1 2 (1.527%) Intranet
1 2 (1.527%) Internet
2 1 (0.763%) HTTP
2 1 (0.763%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.344%) MySQL
2 3 (2.290%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.527%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.763%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 26 (19.85%) Axure RP
2 20 (15.27%) Dreamweaver
3 8 (6.107%) Subversion
4 5 (3.817%) Git (software)
5 4 (3.053%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.290%) Balsamiq Mockups
7 2 (1.527%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.763%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (17.56%) Marketing
2 14 (10.69%) Retail
3 9 (6.870%) Finance
3 9 (6.870%) Advertising
3 9 (6.870%) Banking
4 4 (3.053%) Retail Banking
5 3 (2.290%) Publishing
6 2 (1.527%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.527%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.527%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.527%) Cantonese Language
7 1 (0.763%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.763%) Local Government
7 1 (0.763%) Games
Job Titles
1 61 (46.56%) Designer
2 53 (40.46%) Developer
3 26 (19.85%) Web Designer
4 22 (16.79%) Front-End Developer
5 19 (14.50%) User Experience Designer
6 16 (12.21%) Web Developer
7 15 (11.45%) UI Developer
8 14 (10.69%) UI Programmer
9 10 (7.634%) Senior Developer
10 8 (6.107%) Digital Designer
11 7 (5.344%) Project Manager
11 7 (5.344%) Senior UI Developer
12 6 (4.580%) UI Designer
13 5 (3.817%) User Experience Manager
13 5 (3.817%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.817%) Photoshop Designer
13 5 (3.817%) Senior Designer
14 4 (3.053%) Front-End Web Developer
14 4 (3.053%) Junior
14 4 (3.053%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.870%) Psychology
2 6 (4.580%) Graphic Design
3 5 (3.817%) Smartphone
3 5 (3.817%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.817%) iPad
3 5 (3.817%) SWIFT
3 5 (3.817%) New Media
4 4 (3.053%) Social Media
5 3 (2.290%) W3C
6 2 (1.527%) E-Learning
6 2 (1.527%) VLE
6 2 (1.527%) Flash Lite
6 2 (1.527%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.527%) Visualisation
6 2 (1.527%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.763%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.763%) Open Source
7 1 (0.763%) SaaS
7 1 (0.763%) iPhone
7 1 (0.763%) STB
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.634%) Apple iOS
2 9 (6.870%) Android
2 9 (6.870%) Windows
3 1 (0.763%) VMS
3 1 (0.763%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.763%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (0.763%) UNIX
3 1 (0.763%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (24.43%) E-Commerce
2 22 (16.79%) Web Design
3 21 (16.03%) Web Development
4 20 (15.27%) Information Architecture
5 17 (12.98%) User Experience Design
6 14 (10.69%) SEO
7 13 (9.924%) Project Management
8 12 (9.160%) Agile Software Development
9 11 (8.397%) Online Marketing
10 8 (6.107%) Content Management
10 8 (6.107%) OO
11 7 (5.344%) Scrum
11 7 (5.344%) Usability Testing
12 6 (4.580%) Web Accessibility
13 5 (3.817%) Cash Management
13 5 (3.817%) Migration
13 5 (3.817%) Data Analysis
14 4 (3.053%) TDD
14 4 (3.053%) MVC
14 4 (3.053%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 65 (49.62%) JavaScript
2 18 (13.74%) PHP
3 7 (5.344%) XPath
4 5 (3.817%) Java
5 4 (3.053%) ActionScript
6 3 (2.290%) C#
6 3 (2.290%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (0.763%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.763%) Perl
7 1 (0.763%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.763%) SQL
7 1 (0.763%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (4.580%) Degree
2 3 (2.290%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.290%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.290%) ISO 9001
1 3 (2.290%) ISO 14001
2 2 (1.527%) WCAG
2 2 (1.527%) WAI
Systems Management
1 1 (0.763%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 36 (27.48%) Adobe
2 11 (8.397%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.817%) Apple
4 4 (3.053%) Orchard
5 3 (2.290%) Google
6 2 (1.527%) Unica
6 2 (1.527%) ATG
6 2 (1.527%) Open Text
6 2 (1.527%) EPiServer
6 2 (1.527%) Twitter
7 1 (0.763%) Zend
London
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