Reading Adobe Flex Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe Flex (formerly Macromedia Flex) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Adobe Flex over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Flex (formerly Macromedia Flex)
Location Brighton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dundee East of England East Sussex England Hampshire Leeds London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	69
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.357 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£305
% change on same period last year	-1.60 %
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	£32.86	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-12.38 %
Application Development Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	215	280
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.300 %	0.281 %
Daily rates quoted	53	109
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£323
Average daily rate	£300	£348
% change on same period last year	-13.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.70	£36.20
Average hourly rate	£36.91	£37.72
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.13	£39.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
Adobe Flex Berkshire

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.

Adobe Flex
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Adobe Flex across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Adobe Flex
Daily Rate Trend

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