Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Reading region.

 Adobe Flash
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank444357
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1Up+14
Matching contract IT job ads8109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading1.299 %1.538 %1.055 %
As % of the Application Development category4.762 %7.246 %3.896 %
Daily rates quoted241
Average daily rate£185£313£275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.80 %+13.63 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£240£244£250
% change year-on-year
-1.530 %-2.500 %
Hourly rates quoted203
Average hourly rate£42.50-£15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.50£20.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+67.50 %-27.27 %
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
168138231
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading27.27 %21.23 %27.08 %
Daily rates quoted544173
Average daily rate£281£315£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.85 %-10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£188£275£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£400£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted11618
Average hourly rate£42.50£40.00£38.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.250 %+3.220 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
Flash BerkshireFlash
Berkshire

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.

Flash
Demand Trend

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

Reading Flash Demand Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the Reading region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Reading Flash Daily Rate Histogram

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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.

17 (70.00 %)HTML
26 (60.00 %)CSS
34 (40.00 %).NET
43 (30.00 %)Photoshop
43 (30.00 %)Visual Studio
43 (30.00 %)ASP.NET
43 (30.00 %)SQL
43 (30.00 %)C#
43 (30.00 %)ActionScript
43 (30.00 %)Marketing
43 (30.00 %)Adobe Flex
43 (30.00 %)ActionScript 3.0
52 (20.00 %)Online Marketing
52 (20.00 %)Silverlight
52 (20.00 %)jQuery
52 (20.00 %)Expression Blend
52 (20.00 %)SQL Server
52 (20.00 %)QA
52 (20.00 %)SQL Server 2005
52 (20.00 %)Requirements Analysis
52 (20.00 %)JavaScript
52 (20.00 %)PHP
52 (20.00 %)Web Services
52 (20.00 %)XML
52 (20.00 %)XSLT
52 (20.00 %)MCAD
52 (20.00 %)MCSD
52 (20.00 %)SharePoint
52 (20.00 %)Microsoft
52 (20.00 %)Microsoft Certification

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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.

Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17 (70.00 %)HTML
26 (60.00 %)CSS
34 (40.00 %).NET
43 (30.00 %)ASP.NET
43 (30.00 %)Adobe Flex
52 (20.00 %)Silverlight
52 (20.00 %)jQuery
52 (20.00 %)Web Services
52 (20.00 %)XML
52 (20.00 %)XSLT
61 (10.00 %)LAMP
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (20.00 %)SharePoint
21 (10.00 %)CMS
21 (10.00 %)Joomla!
21 (10.00 %)Moodle
21 (10.00 %)Drupal
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (30.00 %)Photoshop
22 (20.00 %)Fireworks
31 (10.00 %)Shockwave
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (20.00 %)SQL Server
12 (20.00 %)SQL Server 2005
21 (10.00 %)MySQL
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (30.00 %)Visual Studio
22 (20.00 %)Expression Blend
31 (10.00 %)Flex Builder
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (30.00 %)Marketing
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17 (70.00 %)Developer
23 (30.00 %).NET Developer
23 (30.00 %)ASP.NET Developer
23 (30.00 %)Flash Developer
32 (20.00 %)Designer
32 (20.00 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
32 (20.00 %)User Experience Designer
32 (20.00 %)C# Developer
41 (10.00 %)PHP Developer
41 (10.00 %)Administrator
41 (10.00 %)Web Administrator
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (10.00 %)E-Learning
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (10.00 %)Linux
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (20.00 %)Online Marketing
12 (20.00 %)Requirements Analysis
21 (10.00 %)MVC
21 (10.00 %)OOP
21 (10.00 %)OO
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13 (30.00 %)SQL
13 (30.00 %)C#
13 (30.00 %)ActionScript
13 (30.00 %)ActionScript 3.0
22 (20.00 %)JavaScript
22 (20.00 %)PHP
31 (10.00 %)Java
31 (10.00 %)VB.NET
31 (10.00 %)PHP5
31 (10.00 %)ActionScript 2.0
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (20.00 %)MCAD
12 (20.00 %)MCSD
12 (20.00 %)Microsoft Certification
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (20.00 %)QA
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (20.00 %)Microsoft
21 (10.00 %)Zend