The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the Merseyside 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe
Rank 29 36 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Adobe 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.478% 1.154% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.042% 2.290% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £300 £225
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £21.86 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -11.39%
All Vendors
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
96 131 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 45.93% 50.38% 49.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 54 62
Average daily rate £363 £300 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.83% -7.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £165 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 13
Average hourly rate £11.08 £16.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.87% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.69 £11.48
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.80 £21.86 £21.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Adobe
North West

Adobe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Adobe Daily Rate Trend

Adobe
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Adobe Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe
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 17 May 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
Liverpool +6 1 £250 -
Adobe
North West

Adobe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 2 (50.00%) SEO
1 2 (50.00%) Flash
1 2 (50.00%) Dreamweaver
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Web Design
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Umbraco
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) CSS3
1 2 (50.00%) Twitter
1 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (50.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Maya
2 1 (25.00%) V-Ray
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (25.00%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Animation
2 1 (25.00%) Symfony
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Perl

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Flash
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) CSS3
1 2 (50.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 1 (25.00%) V-Ray
2 1 (25.00%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
1 2 (50.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (25.00%) Maya
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (25.00%) CINEMA 4D
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (50.00%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
1 1 (25.00%) Games
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Artist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) SEO
1 2 (50.00%) Web Design
1 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Twitter