South West Flash Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash)
Location Ashton-under-Lyne Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Corby Coventry Crewe Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Portsmouth Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	91	83
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	42	79
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	10.58 %	12.36 %
Daily rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum daily rate	£221	£175
Average daily rate	£254	£185
% change on same period last year	+36.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£286	£195
UK excluding London average daily rate	£251	£236
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.20	£31.89
Average hourly rate	£28.40	£32.56
% change on same period last year	-12.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.60	£33.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.84	£24.64
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Development Applications South West
Matching contract IT job ads	397	639
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.524 %	0.678 %
Daily rates quoted	111	156
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£309
Average daily rate	£311	£323
% change on same period last year	-3.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£329
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	74	97
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.33	£31.19
Average hourly rate	£36.38	£33.19
% change on same period last year	+9.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.43	£35.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.57	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Flash 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.

Flash
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Flash across the South West 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 South West region.

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 South West region.

Flash
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Flash
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Flash within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 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	0	17	£231	-7.50 %
Somerset	-2	4	£275	-
Devon	-3	2	£250	-
Gloucestershire	-12	2	-	-
Wiltshire	+5	1	-	-

Flash England

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 42 (50.60 %) ActionScript 2 27 (32.53 %) CSS 3 22 (26.51 %) JavaScript 4 21 (25.30 %) HTML 5 20 (24.10 %) .NET 6 18 (21.69 %) Dreamweaver 7 16 (19.28 %) Games 8 15 (18.07 %) Internet 8 15 (18.07 %) Photoshop 8 15 (18.07 %) XHTML 9 14 (16.87 %) C# 10 13 (15.66 %) PHP 10 13 (15.66 %) ASP.NET 10 13 (15.66 %) XML 11 12 (14.46 %) Web Design

12 10 (12.05 %) SQL Server 12 10 (12.05 %) Adobe 13 9 (10.84 %) Adobe Illustrator 14 8 (9.639 %) DHTML 15 7 (8.434 %) MySQL 15 7 (8.434 %) AJAX 16 6 (7.229 %) Flash Games 16 6 (7.229 %) SQL 16 6 (7.229 %) XSLT 16 6 (7.229 %) ImageReady 17 5 (6.024 %) E-Learning 17 5 (6.024 %) Oracle 17 5 (6.024 %) VB.NET 17 5 (6.024 %) Adobe Flex 17 5 (6.024 %) Web Development

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 27 (32.53 %) CSS 2 21 (25.30 %) HTML 3 20 (24.10 %) .NET 4 15 (18.07 %) XHTML 5 13 (15.66 %) ASP.NET 5 13 (15.66 %) XML 6 7 (8.434 %) AJAX 7 6 (7.229 %) XSLT 8 5 (6.024 %) Adobe Flex 9 4 (4.819 %) SVG 10 3 (3.614 %) WebServices 10 3 (3.614 %) ASP 11 2 (2.410 %) SOAP 11 2 (2.410 %) DOM 11 2 (2.410 %) XSL 11 2 (2.410 %) WAP 11 2 (2.410 %) WSDL 11 2 (2.410 %) WPF 12 1 (1.205 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 1 (1.205 %) Ruby on Rails	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.614 %) SharePoint 1 3 (3.614 %) CMS 2 2 (2.410 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (1.205 %) IIS
Applications 1 15 (18.07 %) Photoshop 2 9 (10.84 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 6 (7.229 %) ImageReady 4 1 (1.205 %) Acrobat 4 1 (1.205 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 1 (1.205 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 15 (18.07 %) Internet 2 1 (1.205 %) FTP 2 1 (1.205 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (12.05 %) SQL Server 2 7 (8.434 %) MySQL 3 2 (2.410 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 18 (21.69 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 16 (19.28 %) Games 2 6 (7.229 %) Flash Games 3 5 (6.024 %) Multimedia 4 4 (4.819 %) Online Games 4 4 (4.819 %) Marketing 5 3 (3.614 %) Animation 5 3 (3.614 %) Finance 6 2 (2.410 %) Retail 6 2 (2.410 %) Telecoms 6 2 (2.410 %) Music 7 1 (1.205 %) Insurance 7 1 (1.205 %) Pensions 7 1 (1.205 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (1.205 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 63 (75.90 %) Developer 2 30 (36.14 %) Flash Developer 3 15 (18.07 %) Web Developer 4 8 (9.639 %) Interface Designer 4 8 (9.639 %) Web Designer 4 8 (9.639 %) ActionScript Developer 5 7 (8.434 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 7 (8.434 %) .NET Developer 6 6 (7.229 %) C# Developer 6 6 (7.229 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 5 (6.024 %) Games Developer 8 4 (4.819 %) .NET Web Developer 9 3 (3.614 %) C# Web Developer 9 3 (3.614 %) Flash Games Developer 9 3 (3.614 %) PHP Developer 9 3 (3.614 %) Database Developer 9 3 (3.614 %) Flex Developer 10 2 (2.410 %) Interactive Designer 10 2 (2.410 %) Design Engineer 10 2 (2.410 %) VB.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.024 %) E-Learning 2 4 (4.819 %) W3C 3 3 (3.614 %) RIA 4 2 (2.410 %) Streaming Video 4 2 (2.410 %) Web 2.0 5 1 (1.205 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 1 (1.205 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (14.46 %) Web Design 2 5 (6.024 %) Web Development 3 3 (3.614 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (3.614 %) OO 3 3 (3.614 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (1.205 %) OOD 4 1 (1.205 %) CAD 4 1 (1.205 %) SEO 4 1 (1.205 %) Migration 4 1 (1.205 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (1.205 %) Content Management 4 1 (1.205 %) IC Design 4 1 (1.205 %) Direct Marketing 4 1 (1.205 %) Wealth Management 4 1 (1.205 %) Internet Marketing 4 1 (1.205 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (1.205 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 42 (50.60 %) ActionScript 2 22 (26.51 %) JavaScript 3 14 (16.87 %) C# 4 13 (15.66 %) PHP 5 8 (9.639 %) DHTML 6 6 (7.229 %) SQL 7 5 (6.024 %) VB.NET 8 2 (2.410 %) XAML 8 2 (2.410 %) XPath 8 2 (2.410 %) PHP5 9 1 (1.205 %) Lingo 9 1 (1.205 %) Ruby 9 1 (1.205 %) Python 9 1 (1.205 %) Embedded C 9 1 (1.205 %) C 9 1 (1.205 %) Java 9 1 (1.205 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 2 (2.410 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.614 %) WAI	Vendors 1 10 (12.05 %) Adobe 2 5 (6.024 %) Oracle 3 4 (4.819 %) Microsoft 4 3 (3.614 %) Macromedia 5 1 (1.205 %) Google