The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe over the 3 months to 22 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 Essex 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe
Rank 43 40 50
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +10
Contract jobs citing Adobe 4 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.969% 1.695% 0.253%
As % of the Vendors category 1.951% 3.017% 0.474%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £333 £188 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+77.33% -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £300 £216
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +38.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £35.11 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.51 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-14.33% -18.55%
All Vendors
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
205 232 211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 49.64% 56.17% 53.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 103 91
Average daily rate £395 £270 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.29% +27.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £108 £75
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 25 43
Average hourly rate £26.74 £27.63 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% -7.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £20.00 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.15 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Adobe
East of England

Adobe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Adobe Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe within the Essex region over the 3 months to 22 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
Harlow - 2 £400 -
Adobe
East of England

Adobe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Content Management
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) MooTools
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) Elastic Path
3 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Image Processing
3 2 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (33.33%) Sass
3 2 (33.33%) LESS
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax
3 2 (33.33%) Omniture
3 2 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) Dojo
3 2 (33.33%) CMS
3 2 (33.33%) FatWire
3 2 (33.33%) Web Design
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 3 (50.00%) XML
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) MooTools
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
2 2 (33.33%) Sass
2 2 (33.33%) LESS
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) Dojo
2 2 (33.33%) XHTML
2 2 (33.33%) JSP
2 2 (33.33%) XSLT
2 2 (33.33%) ASP
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) WF
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe CQ
1 2 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Author
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Author
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) OO
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (50.00%) Content Management
1 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Image Processing
2 2 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (33.33%) Web Design
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) SEO
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) CAD
3 1 (16.67%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
4 1 (16.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Path
1 2 (33.33%) Omniture
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) FatWire
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Telerik
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