Hertfordshire Adobe Flex Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe Flex (formerly Macromedia Flex) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Adobe Flex over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Flex (formerly Macromedia Flex)
Location Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire City of London Docklands, London Dundee East of England Edinburgh England Hampshire Hertfordshire Jersey Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex North West Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	96
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.274 %	0.201 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£200
Average daily rate	£450	£225
% change on same period last year	+100.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£550	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£391	£315
% change on same period last year	+23.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.70	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+9.00 %
Application Development Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	365	498
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.486 %	0.497 %
Daily rates quoted	164	213
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£325
Average daily rate	£390	£348
% change on same period last year	+12.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.86	£30.97
Average hourly rate	£32.09	£32.31
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.33	£33.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.68	£33.02
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Adobe Flex East of England

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.

Adobe Flex
Demand Trend

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

Adobe Flex
Daily Rate Trend

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

Adobe Flex
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Adobe Flex 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 Flex.

1 4 (100.00 %) XML 1 4 (100.00 %) OOP 1 4 (100.00 %) Flash 2 3 (75.00 %) ActionScript 3 2 (50.00 %) Animation 4 1 (25.00 %) Games

Adobe Flex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Adobe Flex 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 Flex. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (100.00 %) XML	Development Applications 1 4 (100.00 %) Flash
General 1 2 (50.00 %) Animation 2 1 (25.00 %) Games	Job Titles 1 4 (100.00 %) Developer 2 3 (75.00 %) Flash Developer 2 3 (75.00 %) ActionScript Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (100.00 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 3 (75.00 %) ActionScript