The first table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 22 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 Oxford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash
Rank 34 34 15
Rank change year-on-year
0 -19
Contract jobs citing Flash 1 6 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.429% 1.770% 8.075%
As % of the Application Development category 2.778% 6.593% 18.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
Average daily rate - - £180
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £264 £263
% change year-on-year
+13.74% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £24.39
% change year-on-year
-13.37% -17.99%
All Application Development
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 91 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 15.45% 26.84% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 54 48
Average daily rate £320 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £12.28
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +144.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Flash
Oxfordshire

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) MODX

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) MODX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0