Scotland Flash Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash)
Location Amersham Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Llanelli London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Romford Salford Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staines Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	84	89
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	9	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	5.143 %	8.557 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£173	£250
Average daily rate	£199	£250
% change on same period last year	-20.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£225	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£267	£259
% change on same period last year	+3.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.66	£25.44
% change on same period last year	-6.99 %
Development Applications Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	175	409
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.281 %	0.439 %
Daily rates quoted	33	70
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£310
Average daily rate	£292	£318
% change on same period last year	-8.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£324
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.50	£16.83
Average hourly rate	£22.88	£18.17
% change on same period last year	+25.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.25	£19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.55	£30.87
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Flash UK

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.

Flash
Demand Trend

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

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

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

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+6	3	£160	-36.00 %
Edinburgh	+14	1	£163	-

Flash UK

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 15 (45.45 %) ActionScript 2 13 (39.39 %) CSS 2 13 (39.39 %) HTML 3 9 (27.27 %) JavaScript 4 8 (24.24 %) Photoshop 5 7 (21.21 %) XHTML 5 7 (21.21 %) Microsoft 5 7 (21.21 %) Dreamweaver 6 6 (18.18 %) SAN 6 6 (18.18 %) Adobe 6 6 (18.18 %) Windows 6 6 (18.18 %) Solaris 6 6 (18.18 %) .NET 6 6 (18.18 %) SQL Server 6 6 (18.18 %) PHP

6 6 (18.18 %) SQL 6 6 (18.18 %) Replication 6 6 (18.18 %) Brocade 7 5 (15.15 %) XML 8 4 (12.12 %) Oracle 8 4 (12.12 %) VB.NET 8 4 (12.12 %) C 8 4 (12.12 %) IBM 8 4 (12.12 %) MS Access 8 4 (12.12 %) Fireworks 8 4 (12.12 %) Advertising 8 4 (12.12 %) FrontPage 9 3 (9.091 %) Animation 9 3 (9.091 %) SEO 9 3 (9.091 %) Adobe Illustrator

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 13 (39.39 %) HTML 1 13 (39.39 %) CSS 2 7 (21.21 %) XHTML 3 6 (18.18 %) .NET 4 5 (15.15 %) XML 5 2 (6.061 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (6.061 %) AJAX 6 1 (3.030 %) Ruby on Rails 6 1 (3.030 %) Adobe Flex 6 1 (3.030 %) Silverlight 6 1 (3.030 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.030 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 8 (24.24 %) Photoshop 2 4 (12.12 %) Fireworks 3 3 (9.091 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 2 (6.061 %) MS Excel 5 1 (3.030 %) Quicktime	Communications & Networking 1 6 (18.18 %) SAN 2 1 (3.030 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 4 (12.12 %) MS Access 3 2 (6.061 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 7 (21.21 %) Dreamweaver 2 4 (12.12 %) FrontPage
General 1 4 (12.12 %) Advertising 2 3 (9.091 %) Animation 3 1 (3.030 %) Multimedia 3 1 (3.030 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 18 (54.55 %) Developer 2 9 (27.27 %) Flash Developer 3 6 (18.18 %) SAN Engineer 4 5 (15.15 %) Web Designer 5 4 (12.12 %) SQL Developer 5 4 (12.12 %) .NET Developer 5 4 (12.12 %) VB.NET Developer 5 4 (12.12 %) Access Developer 5 4 (12.12 %) C Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) PHP Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) ActionScript Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Web Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Network Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) ColdFusion Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Software Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) Senior PHP Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Web Editor 7 1 (3.030 %) Flex Developer
Miscellaneous 1 6 (18.18 %) Replication 2 3 (9.091 %) W3C 3 1 (3.030 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 6 (18.18 %) Windows 1 6 (18.18 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.091 %) SEO 2 2 (6.061 %) Web Development 3 1 (3.030 %) OOP 3 1 (3.030 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 15 (45.45 %) ActionScript 2 9 (27.27 %) JavaScript 3 6 (18.18 %) PHP 3 6 (18.18 %) SQL 4 4 (12.12 %) VB.NET 4 4 (12.12 %) C 5 2 (6.061 %) C# 5 2 (6.061 %) Java 6 1 (3.030 %) DHTML 6 1 (3.030 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 1 (3.030 %) MCP 1 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (3.030 %) MCPD	Vendors 1 7 (21.21 %) Microsoft 2 6 (18.18 %) Adobe 2 6 (18.18 %) Brocade 3 4 (12.12 %) Oracle 3 4 (12.12 %) IBM 4 1 (3.030 %) Macromedia 4 1 (3.030 %) Sage