The first table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash 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 of the Application Development category for the North East 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash
Rank - 47 -
Contract jobs citing Flash 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East - 0.209% -
As % of the Application Development category - 0.763% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £263
% change year-on-year
+16.50% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £26.39
% change year-on-year
-13.37% -24.21%
All Application Development
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
65 131 105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 24.62% 27.41% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 76 60
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £238 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
Average hourly rate £13.11 £35.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.54% +250.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Flash
England

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Flash across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North East Flash Jobs Demand Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Flash across the North East region.

North East Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North East Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Flash 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 Flash.

1 3 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) OOD
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) ActionScript
2 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Graphic Design
2 2 (66.67%) Flash Builder
2 2 (66.67%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Media
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Flex
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Publishing

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Flash 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 Flash. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Flex
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Flash Builder
General
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Flash Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Designer
3 1 (33.33%) Flex Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) Flash Designer
3 1 (33.33%) Flash Programmer
3 1 (33.33%) Flex Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Designer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Graphic Design
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Media
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) ActionScript
1 2 (66.67%) ActionScript 3.0
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe