Middlesex Adobe Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts within the Middlesex 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenock Hampshire Hertfordshire Inverclyde Kent Lancashire Lewes Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxfordshire Preston Reading Salford Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stockport Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	42
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.664 %	1.053 %
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	£259	£280
% change on same period last year	-7.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.76	£20.74
% change on same period last year	+19.40 %
Vendors Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	301	285
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.424 %	0.288 %
Daily rates quoted	58	54
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£312
Average daily rate	£343	£325
% change on same period last year	+5.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.44	£21.87
Average hourly rate	£26.24	£22.65
% change on same period last year	+15.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.04	£23.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£24.37
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Adobe across the Middlesex region.

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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 Middlesex region.

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 4 (57.14 %) Internet 1 4 (57.14 %) Agile Software Development 1 4 (57.14 %) Risk Management 1 4 (57.14 %) Project Planning 1 4 (57.14 %) Adobe Flex 1 4 (57.14 %) RIA 2 2 (28.57 %) Adobe AIR 2 2 (28.57 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (28.57 %) Marketing 2 2 (28.57 %) MS Office 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows XP 3 1 (14.29 %) SAP 3 1 (14.29 %) ABAP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 4 (57.14 %) Adobe Flex 2 2 (28.57 %) Adobe AIR	Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Office 1 2 (28.57 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 4 (57.14 %) Internet	General 1 2 (28.57 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 4 (57.14 %) Development Manager 1 4 (57.14 %) Project Manager 1 4 (57.14 %) Software Development Manager 1 4 (57.14 %) Development Project Manager 1 4 (57.14 %) Software Project Manager 1 4 (57.14 %) Software Development Project Manager 1 4 (57.14 %) Software Manager 2 2 (28.57 %) Service Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) ABAP Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Administrator 3 1 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) SAP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (57.14 %) RIA
Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (57.14 %) Risk Management 1 4 (57.14 %) Agile Software Development 1 4 (57.14 %) Project Planning
Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) ABAP	Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) SAP