The first table below looks at the demand for the Flash Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East 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
Flash Developer
Rank 225 239 223
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Flash Developer 4 7 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.050% 0.068% 0.185%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.073% 0.200%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 12
Average daily rate £325 £275 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% +17.02%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £265 £325
% change year-on-year
+22.64% -18.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £18.00
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7340 9547 9507
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.65% 92.30% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3646 4278 4096
Average daily rate £350 £350 £357
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 732 811
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Flash Developer
England

Flash Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Flash Developer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Flash Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Flash Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Flash Developer across the South East region.

South East Flash Developer Daily Rate Trend

Flash Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Flash Developer across the South East region.

South East Flash Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Flash Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flash Developer within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire +16 4 £325 +18.18%
Buckinghamshire +3 1 - -
Flash Developer
England

Flash Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Flash Developer in their job title 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 with Flash Developer in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 6 (100.00%) Flash
2 5 (83.33%) ActionScript 2.0
2 5 (83.33%) Adobe
3 4 (66.67%) Flash Lite
4 3 (50.00%) STB
4 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
4 3 (50.00%) Java
4 3 (50.00%) UML
5 2 (33.33%) ActionScript 3.0
5 2 (33.33%) Fireworks
5 2 (33.33%) C
5 2 (33.33%) C++
5 2 (33.33%) HTML
5 2 (33.33%) XML
5 2 (33.33%) MVC
6 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (16.67%) InDesign
6 1 (16.67%) FTP
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Apache Flex
6 1 (16.67%) jQuery
6 1 (16.67%) HTML5
6 1 (16.67%) CSS3
6 1 (16.67%) New Media
6 1 (16.67%) UNIX
6 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (16.67%) Perl
6 1 (16.67%) PHP

Flash Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Flash Developer in their job title 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 with Flash Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) Flash
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Flex
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (33.33%) Fireworks
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (16.67%) InDesign
3 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) FTP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Flash Lite
2 3 (50.00%) STB
3 1 (16.67%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 5 (83.33%) ActionScript 2.0
3 3 (50.00%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) ActionScript 3.0
4 2 (33.33%) C
4 2 (33.33%) C++
5 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) Perl
5 1 (16.67%) PHP
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
Reading, Thames Valley
The successful candidate will have experience developing flash applications using AS3 (actionscript 3). You will have experience of working with Adobe Creative Studio including Flash Pro, Photoshop and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
My large berkshire based blue chip Client is urgently recruiting for a TV Flash Application Designer / Developer to be responsible for the architecture and development of Flash applications...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day + Please quote
Posted: 10 May 2013