The first table below looks at the demand for the Flex Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flex Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Flex Developer
Rank 490 492 381
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -111
Contract jobs requiring a Flex Developer 28 70 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.067% 0.131% 0.352%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.142% 0.380%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 40 129
Average daily rate £500 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £288 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £555 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+21.73% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38380 49421 52947
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.44% 92.55% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22598 27956 29382
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1965 2419 2806
Average hourly rate £18.88 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Flex Developer
UK

Flex Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Flex Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Flex Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Flex Developer Daily Rate Trend

Flex Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flex Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Flex Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Flex Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Flex Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Flex Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flex Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +1 23 £500 -
South West - 3 £350 -
South East +20 2 - -
Flex Developer
UK

Flex Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Flex Developer in their job title 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 with Flex Developer in their job title.

1 40 (90.91%) Apache Flex
2 34 (77.27%) Java
3 24 (54.55%) Adobe
4 22 (50.00%) Finance
5 21 (47.73%) Parsley
6 17 (38.64%) MVC
7 15 (34.09%) Banking
8 14 (31.82%) Front Office
9 13 (29.55%) Maven
9 13 (29.55%) Adobe AIR
10 12 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
11 11 (25.00%) RIA
12 10 (22.73%) Cairngorm
12 10 (22.73%) Investment Banking
12 10 (22.73%) UML
12 10 (22.73%) OOP
12 10 (22.73%) CSS
13 9 (20.45%) ActionScript
13 9 (20.45%) Windows
13 9 (20.45%) Dependency Injection
13 9 (20.45%) ActionScript 3.0
13 9 (20.45%) FlexUnit
13 9 (20.45%) JIRA
14 8 (18.18%) Investment Management
14 8 (18.18%) BlazeDS
14 8 (18.18%) Internet
15 7 (15.91%) Spring
15 7 (15.91%) Confluence
15 7 (15.91%) Unit Testing
16 6 (13.64%) Hibernate

Flex Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Flex Developer in their job title 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 with Flex Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 40 (90.91%) Apache Flex
2 21 (47.73%) Parsley
3 13 (29.55%) Adobe AIR
4 10 (22.73%) Cairngorm
4 10 (22.73%) CSS
5 8 (18.18%) BlazeDS
6 7 (15.91%) Spring
7 6 (13.64%) Hibernate
7 6 (13.64%) Flash
8 5 (11.36%) Java SE
9 4 (9.091%) HTML5
10 3 (6.818%) J2EE
10 3 (6.818%) Middleware
11 2 (4.545%) JMS
11 2 (4.545%) HTML
11 2 (4.545%) Robotlegs
11 2 (4.545%) PureMVC
12 1 (2.273%) Spring Security
12 1 (2.273%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.91%) Confluence
2 2 (4.545%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.545%) Lightstreamer
2 2 (4.545%) LiveCycle
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) Internet
2 5 (11.36%) Firewall
3 2 (4.545%) HTTP
4 1 (2.273%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.545%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.273%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Maven
2 9 (20.45%) FlexUnit
2 9 (20.45%) JIRA
3 2 (4.545%) CruiseControl
4 1 (2.273%) Selenium
4 1 (2.273%) JUnit
4 1 (2.273%) Eclipse
General
1 22 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (34.09%) Banking
3 14 (31.82%) Front Office
4 10 (22.73%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.545%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.545%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.273%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) RIA
2 3 (6.818%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.818%) Informatics
3 2 (4.545%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.545%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.545%) Computer Science
3 2 (4.545%) SaaS
3 2 (4.545%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.273%) Social Gaming
4 1 (2.273%) Mathematics
4 1 (2.273%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.273%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Windows
2 3 (6.818%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) MVC
2 12 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (22.73%) UML
3 10 (22.73%) OOP
4 9 (20.45%) Dependency Injection
5 8 (18.18%) Investment Management
6 7 (15.91%) Unit Testing
7 6 (13.64%) Scrum
8 4 (9.091%) OO
8 4 (9.091%) Analytics
9 3 (6.818%) Information Architecture
9 3 (6.818%) Integration Testing
9 3 (6.818%) Automated Testing
10 2 (4.545%) Business Analysis
10 2 (4.545%) Risk Management
10 2 (4.545%) Configuration Management
10 2 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (4.545%) E-Commerce
10 2 (4.545%) ERP
10 2 (4.545%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 34 (77.27%) Java
2 9 (20.45%) ActionScript
2 9 (20.45%) ActionScript 3.0
3 3 (6.818%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.273%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (2.273%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.545%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.545%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.273%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.545%) QA
Vendors
1 24 (54.55%) Adobe
2 3 (6.818%) Oracle
3 2 (4.545%) JBoss
4 1 (2.273%) Twitter
4 1 (2.273%) Sybase
4 1 (2.273%) InterSystems
Birmingham, West Midlands
A Birmingham CC based software house is currently recruiting for a very strong, commercially experienced contract Java / Adobe Flex developer. You will be using Java object orientated development...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £280 per day + DOE
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Midlands
A Birmingham CC based software house is currently recruiting for a very strong, commercially experienced contract Java / Adobe Flex developer. You will be using Java object orientated development...
Computer Futures
Rate: £330 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
The ideal candidate for this role would have commercial experience with both Flex and ActionScript 3 specifically... For more information about Senitor and the opportunities we have to...
Senitor Associates
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Core Java and Flex UI Developer - Investment Bank - London The successful candidate undertaking this role will join the Prime Services team as a senior developer with a potential...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Knowledge of Spring, AOP, and Spring security... Experience with Python, especially object oriented programming using Python. Experience with relational database technologies including Oracle, Sybase etc. Experience of middleware.
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013