The first table below looks at the demand for Fireworks skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fireworks over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Applications category for the Manchester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Fireworks
Rank 68 82 67
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -15
Contract jobs citing Fireworks 5 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.535% 0.232% 0.189%
As % of the Applications category 3.472% 2.128% 1.754%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £363 £325
% change year-on-year
-10.34% +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £112.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £112.50 £13.88 £12.28
% change year-on-year
+710.81% +13.03%
All Applications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
144 141 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 15.40% 10.90% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 48 39
Average daily rate £306 £248 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.73% -17.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £135 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £374 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 17
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £12.01 £9.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £22.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
Fireworks
North West

Fireworks
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Fireworks across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Manchester Fireworks Jobs Demand Trend

Fireworks
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Fireworks Daily Rate Trend

Fireworks
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Fireworks Hourly Rate Trend

Fireworks
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Fireworks 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 Fireworks.

1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) HTML5
3 5 (55.56%) PHP
4 4 (44.44%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (44.44%) CSS3
4 4 (44.44%) jQuery
5 3 (33.33%) Orchard
5 3 (33.33%) JSON
5 3 (33.33%) LAMP
5 3 (33.33%) MySQL
5 3 (33.33%) XSL
5 3 (33.33%) Apache
5 3 (33.33%) Adobe
6 2 (22.22%) Intranet
6 2 (22.22%) Dreamweaver
6 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
6 2 (22.22%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) Ajax
6 2 (22.22%) Marketing
7 1 (11.11%) Web Accessibility
7 1 (11.11%) Content Management
7 1 (11.11%) CMS
7 1 (11.11%) MS Office
7 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
7 1 (11.11%) Flash
7 1 (11.11%) XHTML

Fireworks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Fireworks 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 Fireworks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) HTML5
3 4 (44.44%) CSS3
3 4 (44.44%) jQuery
4 3 (33.33%) JSON
4 3 (33.33%) LAMP
4 3 (33.33%) XSL
5 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
5 2 (22.22%) .NET
5 2 (22.22%) Ajax
6 1 (11.11%) Flash
6 1 (11.11%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (44.44%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Designer
2 5 (55.56%) Web Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Web Designer
3 4 (44.44%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Web Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) PHP
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Orchard
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft