South West Adobe Flex Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe Flex (formerly Macromedia Flex) skills within the South West 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Flex (formerly Macromedia Flex)
Location Berkshire Brentford Bristol Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East of England Edinburgh England Hampshire Hertfordshire Jersey Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex North East North West Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey UK Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	134	163
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.538 %	0.096 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£356
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
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	£32.17	£31.25
% change on same period last year	+2.93 %
Application Development South West
Matching contract IT job ads	744	1046
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.992 %	1.058 %
Daily rates quoted	166	233
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£310
Average daily rate	£315	£332
% change on same period last year	-5.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	122	146
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.67	£28.73
Average hourly rate	£34.83	£32.36
% change on same period last year	+7.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.98	£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Adobe Flex England

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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Adobe Flex
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Flex within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Bristol	-	1	-	-

Adobe Flex England

Adobe Flex
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Adobe Flex 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 Adobe Flex.

1 5 (62.50 %) Flash 2 3 (37.50 %) Internet 2 3 (37.50 %) RIA 3 2 (25.00 %) ActionScript 4 1 (12.50 %) .NET 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Sybase 4 1 (12.50 %) ASP 4 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (12.50 %) CSS 4 1 (12.50 %) Linux 4 1 (12.50 %) OO 4 1 (12.50 %) N-Tier 4 1 (12.50 %) ETL

4 1 (12.50 %) SDH 4 1 (12.50 %) VMS 4 1 (12.50 %) OpenVMS 4 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) HP 4 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 4 1 (12.50 %) BT 4 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 4 1 (12.50 %) Government 4 1 (12.50 %) SUSE 4 1 (12.50 %) Subversion 4 1 (12.50 %) Spring 4 1 (12.50 %) Web Development 4 1 (12.50 %) Fujitsu

Adobe Flex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Adobe Flex 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 Adobe Flex. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) HTML 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (12.50 %) CSS 1 1 (12.50 %) Spring 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) Internet 2 1 (12.50 %) NetScreen 2 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 2 1 (12.50 %) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) ETL	Development Applications 1 5 (62.50 %) Flash 2 1 (12.50 %) Subversion
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 1 (12.50 %) Government	Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) Flex Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Java Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Flash Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) HTML Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Linux Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) RIA 2 1 (12.50 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Linux 1 1 (12.50 %) VMS 1 1 (12.50 %) OpenVMS 1 1 (12.50 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) OO 1 1 (12.50 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) ActionScript 2 1 (12.50 %) Java 2 1 (12.50 %) PHP 2 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 1 1 (12.50 %) Sybase 1 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 1 1 (12.50 %) HP 1 1 (12.50 %) BT 1 1 (12.50 %) Fujitsu