Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Gloucestershire region.

 Adobe Flash
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank303249
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Up+17
Matching contract IT job ads4101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire1.544 %2.513 %0.179 %
As % of the Application Development category10.26 %11.76 %1.053 %
Daily rates quoted330
Average daily rate£300£128-
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+135.29 %-
UK excluding London average daily rate£240£244£250
% change year-on-year
-1.530 %-2.500 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.50£20.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+67.50 %-27.27 %
Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
398595
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire15.06 %21.36 %17.03 %
Daily rates quoted182420
Average daily rate£375£300£290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00 %+3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£275£244
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£463£500£460
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted5231
Average hourly rate£20.00£30.00£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33 %-14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£25.00£32.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.25£30.00£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
Flash South WestFlash
South West

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.

Flash
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Flash across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Gloucestershire Flash Demand Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Flash across the Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flash within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
GloucesterDown-42£275-
Flash South WestFlash
South West

Flash
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

14 (80.00 %)Photoshop
14 (80.00 %)XHTML
14 (80.00 %)W3C
23 (60.00 %)Adobe
23 (60.00 %)JavaScript
32 (40.00 %)PHP
32 (40.00 %)SQL
32 (40.00 %)SQL Server
32 (40.00 %)ASP
32 (40.00 %)CSS
32 (40.00 %)Adobe Illustrator
32 (40.00 %)Web Design
32 (40.00 %)Marketing
41 (20.00 %)Auditing
41 (20.00 %)QA
41 (20.00 %)C
41 (20.00 %)HTML
41 (20.00 %)Rapid Prototyping

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14 (80.00 %)XHTML
22 (40.00 %)ASP
22 (40.00 %)CSS
31 (20.00 %)HTML
Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (80.00 %)Photoshop
22 (40.00 %)Adobe Illustrator
Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (40.00 %)SQL Server
Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (40.00 %)Marketing
21 (20.00 %)Auditing
Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14 (80.00 %)Web Designer
14 (80.00 %)Designer
22 (40.00 %)Photoshop Designer
31 (20.00 %)Content Editor
Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (80.00 %)W3C
Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (40.00 %)Web Design
21 (20.00 %)Rapid Prototyping
Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13 (60.00 %)JavaScript
22 (40.00 %)PHP
22 (40.00 %)SQL
31 (20.00 %)C
Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (20.00 %)QA
Gloucestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13 (60.00 %)Adobe