Merseyside Adobe Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Adobe over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dundee Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenock Hampshire Hertfordshire Inverclyde Lancashire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Reading Salford Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	46
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	9	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	6.294 %	1.145 %
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	£262	£281
% change on same period last year	-6.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£11.17
Average hourly rate	-	£11.17
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£11.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.46	£19.89
% change on same period last year	+12.93 %
Vendors Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	143	262
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.193 %	0.258 %
Daily rates quoted	38	87
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£283
Average daily rate	£354	£301
% change on same period last year	+17.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.61	£18.54
Average hourly rate	£17.43	£20.95
% change on same period last year	-16.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.25	£23.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.29	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Adobe Systems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Adobe across the Merseyside region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	+8	9	-	-

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 9 (81.82 %) XML 2 7 (63.64 %) XBRL 3 5 (45.45 %) Requirements Analysis 4 3 (27.27 %) Government 4 3 (27.27 %) Flash 4 3 (27.27 %) ActionScript 4 3 (27.27 %) CSS 5 2 (18.18 %) AJAX 5 2 (18.18 %) Fireworks 5 2 (18.18 %) Photoshop 5 2 (18.18 %) DHTML 5 2 (18.18 %) HTML 5 2 (18.18 %) JavaScript 5 2 (18.18 %) ImageReady 5 2 (18.18 %) Dreamweaver

5 2 (18.18 %) Lingo 5 2 (18.18 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 1 (9.091 %) Adobe Premiere 6 1 (9.091 %) Web Design 6 1 (9.091 %) Games 6 1 (9.091 %) Maya 6 1 (9.091 %) Adobe Director 6 1 (9.091 %) XHTML 6 1 (9.091 %) Adobe After Effects 6 1 (9.091 %) Content Management 6 1 (9.091 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (9.091 %) Web Development 6 1 (9.091 %) Graphic Design 6 1 (9.091 %) Adobe Flex

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 9 (81.82 %) XML 2 7 (63.64 %) XBRL 3 3 (27.27 %) CSS 4 2 (18.18 %) HTML 4 2 (18.18 %) AJAX 5 1 (9.091 %) Adobe Flex 5 1 (9.091 %) XHTML	Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) Photoshop 1 2 (18.18 %) ImageReady 1 2 (18.18 %) Fireworks 1 2 (18.18 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (9.091 %) Adobe Premiere 2 1 (9.091 %) Adobe After Effects 2 1 (9.091 %) Maya 2 1 (9.091 %) Adobe Director
Development Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) Flash 2 2 (18.18 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 3 (27.27 %) Government 2 1 (9.091 %) Games 2 1 (9.091 %) Graphic Design
Job Titles 1 4 (36.36 %) Business Analyst 1 4 (36.36 %) Analyst 2 3 (27.27 %) Consultant 2 3 (27.27 %) Web Designer 3 1 (9.091 %) Business Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) Graphic Designer 3 1 (9.091 %) Photoshop Designer 3 1 (9.091 %) Web Consultant	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (45.45 %) Requirements Analysis 2 1 (9.091 %) Web Development 2 1 (9.091 %) Web Design 2 1 (9.091 %) Content Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 3 (27.27 %) ActionScript 2 2 (18.18 %) Lingo 2 2 (18.18 %) DHTML 2 2 (18.18 %) JavaScript