The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 24 31 38
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +7
Contract jobs citing Adobe 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.005% 0.346% 0.526%
As % of the Vendors category 1.695% 0.685% 1.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.17% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £211
% change year-on-year
- +42.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.51 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-2.91% -22.17%
All Vendors
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
118 146 189
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 59.30% 50.52% 49.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 58 74
Average daily rate £368 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £255 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £509 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 11
Average hourly rate £23.00 £50.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.45% +236.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.35 £34.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £50.50 £33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Adobe
South East

Adobe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Adobe Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (25.00%) SAP BI
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (25.00%) Acrobat
2 1 (25.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) COM
2 1 (25.00%) Process Management
2 1 (25.00%) PaintShop Pro
2 1 (25.00%) MVC

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) COM
2 1 (25.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (25.00%) Acrobat
2 1 (25.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) PaintShop Pro
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SAP BI
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) French Language
1 1 (25.00%) German Language
1 1 (25.00%) Italian Language
1 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Content Editor
2 1 (25.00%) Report Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Graphic Design
1 1 (25.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Process Management
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Web Design
1 1 (25.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Zend