Midlands Adobe Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts within the Midlands 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenock Hampshire Hertfordshire Inverclyde Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South Shields South Wales South West Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	68
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	5	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.879 %	1.750 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£375	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£252	£255
% change on same period last year	-1.42 %
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	£22.05	£19.83
% change on same period last year	+11.21 %
Vendors Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	569	857
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.751 %	0.854 %
Daily rates quoted	97	145
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£378
Average daily rate	£368	£403
% change on same period last year	-8.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£428
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	57
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.58	£28.05
Average hourly rate	£24.19	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-17.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.79	£30.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
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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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 3 (42.86 %) Java 1 3 (42.86 %) XML 1 3 (42.86 %) XBRL 1 3 (42.86 %) Government 2 2 (28.57 %) Validation 2 2 (28.57 %) SAP Smart Forms 2 2 (28.57 %) TDD 2 2 (28.57 %) SAP 2 2 (28.57 %) Requirements Analysis 2 2 (28.57 %) WebSphere 2 2 (28.57 %) Bulgarian Language 2 2 (28.57 %) Russian Language 2 2 (28.57 %) Adobe Flex 2 2 (28.57 %) Adobe AIR 2 2 (28.57 %) Unit Testing

2 2 (28.57 %) QuickTest Pro 2 2 (28.57 %) LoadRunner 2 2 (28.57 %) SAPscript 2 2 (28.57 %) OO 2 2 (28.57 %) Swing 2 2 (28.57 %) Tomcat 2 2 (28.57 %) VB 2 2 (28.57 %) .NET 2 2 (28.57 %) J2EE 2 2 (28.57 %) MFC 2 2 (28.57 %) Ant 2 2 (28.57 %) JUnit 2 2 (28.57 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (28.57 %) AWT 3 1 (14.29 %) WebLogic

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 3 (42.86 %) XML 1 3 (42.86 %) XBRL 2 2 (28.57 %) SAP Smart Forms 2 2 (28.57 %) WebSphere 2 2 (28.57 %) Adobe Flex 2 2 (28.57 %) Adobe AIR 2 2 (28.57 %) Swing 2 2 (28.57 %) .NET 2 2 (28.57 %) J2EE 2 2 (28.57 %) MFC 2 2 (28.57 %) AWT 3 1 (14.29 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) Tomcat 1 2 (28.57 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (14.29 %) WebLogic 2 1 (14.29 %) WebLogic Portal
Development Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (28.57 %) LoadRunner 1 2 (28.57 %) Ant 1 2 (28.57 %) JUnit	General 1 3 (42.86 %) Government
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Developer 2 2 (28.57 %) Flex Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Architect 3 1 (14.29 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Web Consultant 3 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) Bulgarian Language 1 2 (28.57 %) Russian Language
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) Validation 1 2 (28.57 %) TDD 1 2 (28.57 %) Requirements Analysis 1 2 (28.57 %) Unit Testing 1 2 (28.57 %) OO 2 1 (14.29 %) ERP 2 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (14.29 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 3 (42.86 %) Java 2 2 (28.57 %) SAPscript 2 2 (28.57 %) VB
Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) SAP