The first table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash 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 of the Application Development category for the London 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash
Rank 256 226 161
Rank change year-on-year
-30 -65
Contract jobs citing Flash 131 198 391
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.574% 0.745% 1.243%
As % of the Application Development category 1.878% 2.578% 4.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 135 261
Average daily rate £363 £325 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% -10.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £439 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £253 £275
% change year-on-year
-10.89% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £26.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.16 £25.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-35.35% +11.11%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6974 7680 9585
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 30.58% 28.89% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5047 5216 6511
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 104 116
Average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +46.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £19.52 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £67.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Flash
England

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Flash across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London Flash Jobs Demand Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Flash Daily Rate Histogram

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -11 36 £313 -3.10% 14
Hammersmith - 1 £215 -
Westminster - - - -
Hackney - - - -
Paddington - - - -
Flash
England

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 113 (45.20%) HTML
2 93 (37.20%) CSS
3 89 (35.60%) JavaScript
4 85 (34.00%) Photoshop
4 85 (34.00%) Adobe
5 71 (28.40%) ActionScript
6 70 (28.00%) HTML5
7 56 (22.40%) Marketing
8 50 (20.00%) Java
9 48 (19.20%) XML
10 46 (18.40%) Adobe Illustrator
11 41 (16.40%) CMS
12 39 (15.60%) ActionScript 3.0
12 39 (15.60%) Mobile App
13 37 (14.80%) PHP
14 36 (14.40%) E-Commerce
14 36 (14.40%) jQuery
15 34 (13.60%) Apache Flex
15 34 (13.60%) .NET
16 31 (12.40%) Web Design
16 31 (12.40%) Degree
16 31 (12.40%) JSON
17 29 (11.60%) REST
17 29 (11.60%) Games
17 29 (11.60%) Scrum
17 29 (11.60%) Agile Software Development
18 27 (10.80%) MySQL
19 26 (10.40%) Ajax
19 26 (10.40%) MVC
19 26 (10.40%) Apple iOS

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 113 (45.20%) HTML
2 93 (37.20%) CSS
3 70 (28.00%) HTML5
4 48 (19.20%) XML
5 36 (14.40%) jQuery
6 34 (13.60%) Apache Flex
6 34 (13.60%) .NET
7 31 (12.40%) JSON
8 29 (11.60%) REST
9 26 (10.40%) Ajax
10 24 (9.600%) Silverlight
11 19 (7.600%) XHTML
11 19 (7.600%) Web Services
12 14 (5.600%) DHTML
13 13 (5.200%) ASP.NET
14 12 (4.800%) SOAP
15 11 (4.400%) LAMP
16 10 (4.000%) CSS3
17 8 (3.200%) WSRP
17 8 (3.200%) JSR 168
Application Platforms
1 41 (16.40%) CMS
2 22 (8.800%) Adobe CQ
3 13 (5.200%) Apache
4 10 (4.000%) Amazon AWS
4 10 (4.000%) Drupal
5 8 (3.200%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (2.800%) ColdFusion
6 7 (2.800%) Tomcat
6 7 (2.800%) WordPress
7 4 (1.600%) IIS
8 3 (1.200%) ExpressionEngine
9 2 (0.800%) Magento
9 2 (0.800%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.400%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.400%) Moodle
10 1 (0.400%) LiveSite
Applications
1 85 (34.00%) Photoshop
2 46 (18.40%) Adobe Illustrator
3 21 (8.400%) MS Visio
4 14 (5.600%) Adobe After Effects
5 11 (4.400%) InDesign
6 10 (4.000%) MS Excel
7 8 (3.200%) OmniGraffle
8 7 (2.800%) Acrobat
9 6 (2.400%) MS Office
10 5 (2.000%) Fireworks
11 4 (1.600%) MS PowerPoint
12 3 (1.200%) Shockwave
13 2 (0.800%) CINEMA 4D
13 2 (0.800%) Quicktime
13 2 (0.800%) Maya
13 2 (0.800%) 3ds Max
14 1 (0.400%) PageMaker
14 1 (0.400%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.800%) Google Analytics
2 1 (0.400%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.000%) Internet
2 19 (7.600%) HTTP
3 10 (4.000%) SAN
4 8 (3.200%) NAS
4 8 (3.200%) Network Security
4 8 (3.200%) SSL
4 8 (3.200%) DNS
4 8 (3.200%) RTP
4 8 (3.200%) RTSP
4 8 (3.200%) Firewall
5 2 (0.800%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.800%) FTP
5 2 (0.800%) Intranet
6 1 (0.400%) SSH
6 1 (0.400%) Extranet
6 1 (0.400%) Broadband
6 1 (0.400%) NFC
6 1 (0.400%) SPDY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.80%) MySQL
2 16 (6.400%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.400%) CouchDB
4 9 (3.600%) RDBMS
4 9 (3.600%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.200%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.200%) Redis
5 8 (3.200%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (2.000%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (2.000%) SQL Server 2000
6 5 (2.000%) OLAP
6 5 (2.000%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (0.800%) SQLite
7 2 (0.800%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.400%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.400%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.400%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.400%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.400%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.400%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 16 (6.400%) Dreamweaver
2 14 (5.600%) Maven
3 12 (4.800%) Git (software)
3 12 (4.800%) Microsoft Blend
4 10 (4.000%) JIRA
4 10 (4.000%) Selenium
4 10 (4.000%) Subversion
5 9 (3.600%) Jenkins
5 9 (3.600%) Hudson
6 8 (3.200%) Axure RP
7 5 (2.000%) Flash Builder
8 3 (1.200%) Xcode
8 3 (1.200%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.200%) GitHub
8 3 (1.200%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.800%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.800%) Ant
9 2 (0.800%) JUnit
9 2 (0.800%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.400%) Oracle Forms
General
1 56 (22.40%) Marketing
2 29 (11.60%) Games
3 22 (8.800%) Telecoms
4 19 (7.600%) Publishing
5 18 (7.200%) Finance
5 18 (7.200%) Banking
6 16 (6.400%) Legal
7 13 (5.200%) Advertising
8 12 (4.800%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.400%) Multimedia
10 4 (1.600%) Retail
10 4 (1.600%) Front Office
11 2 (0.800%) Interactive Media
12 1 (0.400%) Automotive
12 1 (0.400%) Back Office
12 1 (0.400%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 107 (42.80%) Developer
2 53 (21.20%) Designer
3 20 (8.000%) Web Developer
4 18 (7.200%) Web Producer
4 18 (7.200%) Flash Developer
5 13 (5.200%) Front-End Developer
6 11 (4.400%) User Experience Designer
7 10 (4.000%) Android Developer
7 10 (4.000%) Web Designer
8 8 (3.200%) Digital Designer
8 8 (3.200%) Senior Designer
8 8 (3.200%) Lead Developer
9 7 (2.800%) Senior Developer
9 7 (2.800%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (2.800%) .NET Developer
9 7 (2.800%) C# Developer
9 7 (2.800%) Coordinator
9 7 (2.800%) Architect
9 7 (2.800%) Software Engineer
9 7 (2.800%) Visual Designer
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.60%) Mobile App
2 20 (8.000%) Digital Media
3 19 (7.600%) Open Source
4 14 (5.600%) E-Learning
5 12 (4.800%) RIA
6 11 (4.400%) Graphic Design
7 10 (4.000%) Computer Science
8 8 (3.200%) Social Media
8 8 (3.200%) Animation
8 8 (3.200%) Taxonomies
8 8 (3.200%) Ontologies
9 7 (2.800%) Interactive TV
9 7 (2.800%) New Media
9 7 (2.800%) Visualisation
10 6 (2.400%) SCORM
11 5 (2.000%) Fixed Income
11 5 (2.000%) W3C
11 5 (2.000%) Learning Management System
11 5 (2.000%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.600%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.40%) Apple iOS
2 24 (9.600%) Android
3 16 (6.400%) Windows
4 12 (4.800%) Linux
5 6 (2.400%) UNIX
6 4 (1.600%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.600%) Windows XP
7 3 (1.200%) Windows Mobile
8 2 (0.800%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.800%) Solaris
9 1 (0.400%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.400%) CentOS
9 1 (0.400%) Windows Phone 7
9 1 (0.400%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (14.40%) E-Commerce
2 31 (12.40%) Web Design
3 29 (11.60%) Scrum
3 29 (11.60%) Agile Software Development
4 26 (10.40%) MVC
5 23 (9.200%) OO
6 17 (6.800%) TDD
7 16 (6.400%) Information Architecture
7 16 (6.400%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (6.000%) Web Development
8 15 (6.000%) Content Management
8 15 (6.000%) Project Management
9 13 (5.200%) OOP
10 12 (4.800%) Penetration Testing
11 10 (4.000%) Online Marketing
11 10 (4.000%) BDD
11 10 (4.000%) Mobile Application Development
12 9 (3.600%) SOA
12 9 (3.600%) Bug Management
12 9 (3.600%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 89 (35.60%) JavaScript
2 71 (28.40%) ActionScript
3 50 (20.00%) Java
4 39 (15.60%) ActionScript 3.0
5 37 (14.80%) PHP
6 25 (10.00%) ActionScript 2.0
6 25 (10.00%) C#
7 19 (7.600%) Perl
7 19 (7.600%) SQL
8 10 (4.000%) Ruby
9 8 (3.200%) Python
9 8 (3.200%) C++
9 8 (3.200%) Objective-C
10 6 (2.400%) XAML
11 5 (2.000%) C
11 5 (2.000%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.600%) Scala
13 3 (1.200%) PHP5
14 1 (0.400%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.400%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 31 (12.40%) Degree
2 7 (2.800%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.400%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.800%) OCP
4 2 (0.800%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.400%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.000%) QA
System Software
1 8 (3.200%) Samba
2 2 (0.800%) NFS
3 1 (0.400%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.400%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.400%) SRDF
3 1 (0.400%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (0.400%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 3 (1.200%) CA Wily
2 2 (0.800%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.800%) SCCM
2 2 (0.800%) WSUS
2 2 (0.800%) BladeLogic
2 2 (0.800%) Tivoli
2 2 (0.800%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (0.400%) Nagios
3 1 (0.400%) OpenView
3 1 (0.400%) Oracle Statspack
3 1 (0.400%) ZABBIX
3 1 (0.400%) Puppet
Vendors
1 85 (34.00%) Adobe
2 24 (9.600%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.800%) Oracle
4 8 (3.200%) Rackspace
4 8 (3.200%) Twitter
4 8 (3.200%) JBoss
5 7 (2.800%) Google
5 7 (2.800%) Apple
5 7 (2.800%) Facebook
6 4 (1.600%) Zend
6 4 (1.600%) HP
6 4 (1.600%) Symantec
6 4 (1.600%) Remedy
6 4 (1.600%) OpenTV
7 3 (1.200%) OPNET
7 3 (1.200%) CA
7 3 (1.200%) EMC
7 3 (1.200%) IBM
8 2 (0.800%) Tealeaf
8 2 (0.800%) Cisco
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