Kent Adobe Flex Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe Flex (formerly Macromedia Flex) skills within the Kent 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Flex (formerly Macromedia Flex)
Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East of England East Sussex England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Surrey Swansea UK Wales Walsall West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	49
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.239 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£310
% change on same period last year	-7.44 %
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	£31.56	£23.75
% change on same period last year	+32.89 %
Application Development Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	110	134
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.177 %	0.144 %
Daily rates quoted	45	36
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£301
Average daily rate	£286	£311
% change on same period last year	-8.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.73	£22.33
Average hourly rate	£32.89	£23.32
% change on same period last year	+41.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.05	£24.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.57	£31.61
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
Adobe Flex South East

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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.