The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Leeds 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe
Rank 55 67 56
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -11
Contract jobs citing Adobe 23 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.904% 0.593% 0.884%
As % of the Vendors category 6.216% 1.205% 2.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 2
Average daily rate £250 £300 £219
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +37.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £211
% change year-on-year
- +42.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £33.00 - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.51 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-2.91% -22.17%
All Vendors
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
370 498 261
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 46.72% 49.26% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 281 122
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £172 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 25 33
Average hourly rate £34.00 £14.50 £16.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+134.48% -13.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.36 £9.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £32.60 £28.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Adobe
West Yorkshire

Adobe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Adobe Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 19 (70.37%) Java
1 19 (70.37%) Adobe CQ
2 15 (55.56%) J2EE
2 15 (55.56%) CSS
2 15 (55.56%) Hibernate
3 14 (51.85%) Oracle
3 14 (51.85%) JavaScript
3 14 (51.85%) Web Services
3 14 (51.85%) hybris
4 13 (48.15%) Amazon AWS
4 13 (48.15%) REST
4 13 (48.15%) jQuery
4 13 (48.15%) SOA
4 13 (48.15%) SOAP
5 12 (44.44%) MySQL
5 12 (44.44%) Client/Server
5 12 (44.44%) TDD
5 12 (44.44%) Spring
5 12 (44.44%) Maven
5 12 (44.44%) Scrum
5 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (44.44%) Internet
5 12 (44.44%) Security Testing
5 12 (44.44%) Git (software)
5 12 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (44.44%) Amazon S3
5 12 (44.44%) Redis
5 12 (44.44%) Percona
5 12 (44.44%) BDD
5 12 (44.44%) MongoDB

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 15 (55.56%) J2EE
1 15 (55.56%) CSS
1 15 (55.56%) Hibernate
2 14 (51.85%) Web Services
3 13 (48.15%) REST
3 13 (48.15%) jQuery
3 13 (48.15%) SOAP
4 12 (44.44%) Spring
4 12 (44.44%) HTML5
5 8 (29.63%) HTML
6 7 (25.93%) CSS3
6 7 (25.93%) Node.js
7 6 (22.22%) Java EE
8 3 (11.11%) Flash
8 3 (11.11%) Struts
9 2 (7.407%) JSTL
9 2 (7.407%) JSP
9 2 (7.407%) WebSphere
9 2 (7.407%) WebSphere MQ
10 1 (3.704%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 19 (70.37%) Adobe CQ
2 13 (48.15%) Amazon AWS
3 12 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 12 (44.44%) Route 53
4 7 (25.93%) Apache
4 7 (25.93%) Tomcat
4 7 (25.93%) nginx
4 7 (25.93%) Apache Solr
5 2 (7.407%) ESB
5 2 (7.407%) WebSphere Portal
5 2 (7.407%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (7.407%) Documentum
5 2 (7.407%) CMS
5 2 (7.407%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Photoshop
2 2 (7.407%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (7.407%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.704%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (3.704%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) Internet
2 7 (25.93%) HTTP
2 7 (25.93%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) MySQL
1 12 (44.44%) Redis
1 12 (44.44%) MongoDB
1 12 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Maven
1 12 (44.44%) Git (software)
1 12 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.407%) Build Forge
2 2 (7.407%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (3.704%) Flash Builder
General
1 9 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (11.11%) Interactive Media
3 2 (7.407%) Marketing
4 1 (3.704%) Finance
4 1 (3.704%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.704%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Developer
2 15 (55.56%) Java Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Designer
4 5 (18.52%) Web Designer
5 2 (7.407%) CMS Developer
6 1 (3.704%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.704%) Administrator
6 1 (3.704%) ActionScript Developer
6 1 (3.704%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (3.704%) Web Content Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.704%) DTV
2 1 (3.704%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (7.407%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) SOA
2 12 (44.44%) TDD
2 12 (44.44%) Scrum
2 12 (44.44%) Security Testing
2 12 (44.44%) BDD
3 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
3 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
3 7 (25.93%) Kanban
4 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
5 3 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (11.11%) Content Management
6 2 (7.407%) Web Development
6 2 (7.407%) SEO
7 1 (3.704%) Programme Management
7 1 (3.704%) OOD
7 1 (3.704%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (3.704%) OO
7 1 (3.704%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Java
2 14 (51.85%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.93%) C++
3 7 (25.93%) Perl
3 7 (25.93%) PHP
3 7 (25.93%) Python
3 7 (25.93%) Ruby
3 7 (25.93%) Bash shell
4 2 (7.407%) SQL
5 1 (3.704%) ActionScript
5 1 (3.704%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 1 (3.704%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Oracle
1 14 (51.85%) hybris
2 12 (44.44%) Percona
3 2 (7.407%) Siebel
3 2 (7.407%) IBM
4 1 (3.704%) Omniture
4 1 (3.704%) SAP