The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe 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 Vendors for the South West 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Adobe Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe
Rank 95 131 108
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -23
Contract jobs citing Adobe 16 10 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.796% 0.308% 0.662%
As % of the Vendors category 1.837% 0.727% 1.489%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
Average daily rate £175 £450 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-61.11% +100.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £105 £324 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £550 £369
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £300 £211
% change year-on-year
-0.83% +42.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
Average hourly rate £11.00 £21.75 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.42% +20.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.51 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-14.33% -18.55%
All Vendors
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
871 1375 1276
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 43.33% 42.37% 44.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 790 586
Average daily rate £375 £400 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £205
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 51 100 113
Average hourly rate £13.50 £25.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.00% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.45 £48.00 £35.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Adobe
England

Adobe
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Adobe across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South West Adobe Jobs Demand Trend

Adobe
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Adobe Daily Rate Trend

Adobe
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Adobe across the South West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South West Adobe Daily Rate Histogram

Adobe
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Adobe Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe within the South West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Gloucestershire +35 4 - -
Bristol - 4 £213 -
Wiltshire +2 2 £235 -32.85%
Dorset - 2 £105 -
Somerset +4 1 - -
Adobe
England

Adobe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Adobe 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.

1 15 (39.47%) CSS
2 14 (36.84%) HTML
3 13 (34.21%) Photoshop
4 10 (26.32%) Adobe Illustrator
5 9 (23.68%) JavaScript
6 7 (18.42%) Analytics
6 7 (18.42%) Graphic Design
7 6 (15.79%) Marketing
7 6 (15.79%) HTML5
7 6 (15.79%) PHP
7 6 (15.79%) Flash
7 6 (15.79%) Finance
8 5 (13.16%) ActionScript
8 5 (13.16%) jQuery
8 5 (13.16%) Web Analytics
8 5 (13.16%) Web Design
8 5 (13.16%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (10.53%) Omniture
9 4 (10.53%) WordPress
9 4 (10.53%) Windows
9 4 (10.53%) Dreamweaver
9 4 (10.53%) Mac OS X
9 4 (10.53%) Apple
9 4 (10.53%) E-Learning
10 3 (7.895%) SEO
10 3 (7.895%) MySQL
10 3 (7.895%) Fireworks
10 3 (7.895%) MS Visio
10 3 (7.895%) XHTML
10 3 (7.895%) XML

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Adobe 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (39.47%) CSS
2 14 (36.84%) HTML
3 6 (15.79%) HTML5
3 6 (15.79%) Flash
4 5 (13.16%) jQuery
5 3 (7.895%) XHTML
5 3 (7.895%) XML
5 3 (7.895%) CSS3
5 3 (7.895%) Apache Flex
6 2 (5.263%) Spring
6 2 (5.263%) Parsley
6 2 (5.263%) Cairngorm
6 2 (5.263%) PureMVC
6 2 (5.263%) BlazeDS
6 2 (5.263%) .NET
6 2 (5.263%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.632%) ASP
7 1 (2.632%) Adobe AIR
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) WordPress
2 3 (7.895%) LiveCycle
3 2 (5.263%) CMS
4 1 (2.632%) TeamSite
4 1 (2.632%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.632%) Magento
4 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (2.632%) Drupal
4 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Photoshop
2 10 (26.32%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (7.895%) Fireworks
3 3 (7.895%) MS Visio
3 3 (7.895%) Adobe Captivate
4 2 (5.263%) MS Office
4 2 (5.263%) InDesign
5 1 (2.632%) Maya
5 1 (2.632%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 1 (2.632%) SAP CS
1 1 (2.632%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.632%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) Internet
2 1 (2.632%) Intranet
2 1 (2.632%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.895%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (7.895%) Balsamiq Mockups
2 3 (7.895%) Axure RP
3 2 (5.263%) Subversion
3 2 (5.263%) Maven
4 1 (2.632%) Git (software)
4 1 (2.632%) Flex Builder
General
1 6 (15.79%) Marketing
1 6 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (7.895%) Multimedia
3 2 (5.263%) Advertising
4 1 (2.632%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) Designer
3 5 (13.16%) Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Web Designer
4 4 (10.53%) Web Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Front-End Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Desktop Support
5 3 (7.895%) Web Developer
5 3 (7.895%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (7.895%) User Experience Consultant
6 2 (5.263%) Flash Designer
6 2 (5.263%) Flex Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Flash Developer
7 1 (2.632%) Graphic Designer
7 1 (2.632%) Website Designer
7 1 (2.632%) Support Analyst
7 1 (2.632%) Front-End Web Developer
7 1 (2.632%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (2.632%) Insight Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Graphic Design
2 4 (10.53%) E-Learning
3 3 (7.895%) Digital Media
4 2 (5.263%) Video Editing
4 2 (5.263%) Open Source
4 2 (5.263%) Social Media
4 2 (5.263%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.263%) Informatics
5 1 (2.632%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
1 4 (10.53%) Mac OS X
2 3 (7.895%) Windows 7
2 3 (7.895%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.632%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.632%) Linux
3 1 (2.632%) UNIX
3 1 (2.632%) Windows Vista
3 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.632%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (18.42%) Analytics
2 5 (13.16%) Web Analytics
2 5 (13.16%) Web Design
2 5 (13.16%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (7.895%) SEO
3 3 (7.895%) Usability Testing
3 3 (7.895%) Time Management
3 3 (7.895%) Product Management
3 3 (7.895%) Business Development
4 2 (5.263%) Automated Testing
4 2 (5.263%) ITIL
4 2 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.263%) Scrum
4 2 (5.263%) MVC
5 1 (2.632%) Workflow
5 1 (2.632%) EAM
5 1 (2.632%) Process Management
5 1 (2.632%) Change Management
5 1 (2.632%) E-Commerce
5 1 (2.632%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) JavaScript
2 6 (15.79%) PHP
3 5 (13.16%) ActionScript
4 3 (7.895%) ActionScript 3.0
5 2 (5.263%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (5.263%) Java
6 1 (2.632%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.632%) SQL
6 1 (2.632%) VB
6 1 (2.632%) PHP4
6 1 (2.632%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.632%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (2.632%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (2.632%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
1 1 (2.632%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.632%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.632%) Terminal Services
1 1 (2.632%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.632%) XenApp
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Omniture
1 4 (10.53%) Apple
2 2 (5.263%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.632%) Citrix
3 1 (2.632%) JBoss
3 1 (2.632%) SAP
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