Flash Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 West 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 108 114 101
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -13
Contract jobs citing Flash 9 18 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.392% 0.568% 1.007%
As % of the Application Development category 1.435% 1.915% 4.144%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 16
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £263
% change year-on-year
+16.50% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £26.39
% change year-on-year
-13.37% -24.21%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 627 940 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.30% 29.68% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 521 431
Average daily rate £302 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 28 24
Average hourly rate £30.00 £19.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.84% -29.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £145.42 £33.32 £37.50
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West 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 West region.

North West 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 West region.

North West Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flash within the North West 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
Manchester +9 7 £350 -
Cheshire 0 1 £300 -0.16%
Merseyside - 1 £250 -
Flash
England

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 14 (58.33%) ActionScript
2 11 (45.83%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (41.67%) Java
4 9 (37.50%) Scrum
4 9 (37.50%) ActionScript 2.0
5 8 (33.33%) Adobe
6 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
6 7 (29.17%) Internet
7 6 (25.00%) C++
7 6 (25.00%) HTML
7 6 (25.00%) OO
8 5 (20.83%) Web Services
8 5 (20.83%) CSS
8 5 (20.83%) OOP
8 5 (20.83%) TDD
9 4 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (16.67%) Memory Management
9 4 (16.67%) Subversion
9 4 (16.67%) Performance Testing
9 4 (16.67%) MTASC
9 4 (16.67%) Multimedia
9 4 (16.67%) Games
10 3 (12.50%) TELNET
10 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
10 3 (12.50%) E-Learning
10 3 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (12.50%) J2EE
10 3 (12.50%) Oracle
10 3 (12.50%) JUnit

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 6 (25.00%) HTML
2 5 (20.83%) Web Services
2 5 (20.83%) CSS
3 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 3 (12.50%) Spring
3 3 (12.50%) Apache Flex
3 3 (12.50%) J2EE
4 2 (8.333%) SOAP
4 2 (8.333%) jQuery
4 2 (8.333%) HTML5
4 2 (8.333%) REST
4 2 (8.333%) CSS3
5 1 (4.167%) Semantic HTML
5 1 (4.167%) V-Ray
5 1 (4.167%) WPF
5 1 (4.167%) Symfony
5 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.167%) .NET
5 1 (4.167%) XML
5 1 (4.167%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Photoshop
1 3 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (8.333%) InDesign
2 2 (8.333%) Acrobat
3 1 (4.167%) Fireworks
3 1 (4.167%) Maya
3 1 (4.167%) MS Office
3 1 (4.167%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (4.167%) CINEMA 4D
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Internet
2 3 (12.50%) TELNET
2 3 (12.50%) SNMP
2 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.167%) MySQL
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Subversion
1 4 (16.67%) MTASC
2 3 (12.50%) TestNG
2 3 (12.50%) JUnit
2 3 (12.50%) Eclipse
2 3 (12.50%) Selenium
3 2 (8.333%) Dreamweaver
3 2 (8.333%) JIRA
3 2 (8.333%) MyEclipse
3 2 (8.333%) Mercurial
3 2 (8.333%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (16.67%) Games
1 4 (16.67%) Multimedia
2 1 (4.167%) Marketing
2 1 (4.167%) Electronics
2 1 (4.167%) Automotive
2 1 (4.167%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Flash Developer
3 5 (20.83%) ActionScript Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Flash ActionScript Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Designer
4 3 (12.50%) Multimedia Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.333%) IT Trainer
5 2 (8.333%) Web Designer
5 2 (8.333%) Web Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Trainer
5 2 (8.333%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Graphic Designer
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Artist
6 1 (4.167%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.167%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 3 (12.50%) E-Learning
2 3 (12.50%) Graphic Design
3 2 (8.333%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.167%) W3C
4 1 (4.167%) Animation
4 1 (4.167%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Android
1 3 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (37.50%) Scrum
3 6 (25.00%) OO
4 5 (20.83%) OOP
4 5 (20.83%) TDD
5 4 (16.67%) Memory Management
5 4 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 2 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (8.333%) Change Management
7 2 (8.333%) Content Management
8 1 (4.167%) Game Development
8 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
8 1 (4.167%) Project Management
8 1 (4.167%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) ActionScript
2 10 (41.67%) Java
3 9 (37.50%) ActionScript 2.0
4 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
5 6 (25.00%) C++
6 2 (8.333%) PHP
7 1 (4.167%) VB
7 1 (4.167%) VB6
7 1 (4.167%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (4.167%) C#
7 1 (4.167%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Adobe
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
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