The first table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Staffordshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash
Rank - 27 31
Contract jobs citing Flash 0 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire - 2.439% 5.263%
As % of the Application Development category - 6.494% 9.924%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 11
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £253 £275
% change year-on-year
-10.89% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.16 £25.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-35.35% +11.11%
All Application Development
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
28 77 131
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 28.57% 37.56% 53.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 79
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £403 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.31 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.31% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Flash
West Midlands

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flash within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Stoke-on-Trent - - - - 1
Flash
West Midlands

Flash
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Graphic Design
1 1 (100.00%) Flash Builder
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Flash Builder
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Flash Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Flash Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe