Guildford Flash Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) skills within the Guildford region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash)
Location Ashton-under-Lyne Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crewe Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	26
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	3	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	10.34 %	13.64 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£240
Average daily rate	£200	£240
% change on same period last year	-16.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£240
UK excluding London average daily rate	£241	£242
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.24	£26.17
% change on same period last year	-7.38 %
Development Applications Guildford
Matching contract IT job ads	29	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.022 %
Daily rates quoted	14	15
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£331
Average daily rate	£344	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£26.67
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£33.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.89	£34.13
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Flash Surrey

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 Guildford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

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

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Flash
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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.

1 8 (72.73 %) CSS 2 6 (54.55 %) XML 2 6 (54.55 %) HTML 3 4 (36.36 %) Photoshop 3 4 (36.36 %) Dreamweaver 4 3 (27.27 %) JavaScript 4 3 (27.27 %) PHP 4 3 (27.27 %) ActionScript 4 3 (27.27 %) Web Development 4 3 (27.27 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 3 (27.27 %) Internet 5 2 (18.18 %) CMS 5 2 (18.18 %) Web Design 5 2 (18.18 %) Retail 5 2 (18.18 %) Systems Analysis

5 2 (18.18 %) MySQL 5 2 (18.18 %) ColdFusion 5 2 (18.18 %) DHTML 5 2 (18.18 %) Intranet 5 2 (18.18 %) XHTML 5 2 (18.18 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (9.091 %) ASP 6 1 (9.091 %) W3C 6 1 (9.091 %) XSLT 6 1 (9.091 %) OOP 6 1 (9.091 %) Advertising

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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.

Application Development 1 8 (72.73 %) CSS 2 6 (54.55 %) XML 2 6 (54.55 %) HTML 3 2 (18.18 %) XHTML 4 1 (9.091 %) ASP 4 1 (9.091 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) ColdFusion 1 2 (18.18 %) CMS
Applications 1 4 (36.36 %) Photoshop 2 3 (27.27 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 3 (27.27 %) Internet 2 2 (18.18 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 4 (36.36 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 2 (18.18 %) Retail 2 1 (9.091 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 7 (63.64 %) Developer 2 5 (45.45 %) Web Designer 3 4 (36.36 %) Flash Developer 4 3 (27.27 %) Photoshop Designer 5 2 (18.18 %) ColdFusion Developer 6 1 (9.091 %) PHP Developer 6 1 (9.091 %) Web Developer 6 1 (9.091 %) ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) W3C	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Web Development 2 2 (18.18 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (18.18 %) Web Design 2 2 (18.18 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (9.091 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 3 (27.27 %) JavaScript 1 3 (27.27 %) PHP 1 3 (27.27 %) ActionScript 2 2 (18.18 %) DHTML