The first table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the Solihull region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 23 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 Solihull 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash
Rank - - 8
Contract jobs citing Flash 0 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull - - 6.944%
As % of the Application Development category - - 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
Average daily rate - - £200
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £265 £275
% change year-on-year
+13.20% -3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £24.39
% change year-on-year
-13.37% -17.99%
All Application Development
Solihull
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull 22.81% 8.750% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
Average daily rate £269 £200 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.37% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £200 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £200 £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Flash
West Midlands

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) Industrial Design
1 1 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) OmniGraffle
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) OmniGraffle
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Developer
1 1 (100.00%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Industrial Design
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle