Stoke-on-Trent Adobe Flex Contracts

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

Adobe Flex (formerly Macromedia Flex)
Location Belfast Berkshire Brentford Bristol Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands City of London County Antrim Docklands, London East of England Edinburgh England Hampshire Hertfordshire Jersey Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Scotland South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey UK Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	8	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	18.18 %	0.000 %
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	£348	£366
% change on same period last year	-5.01 %
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	£20.58	£31.25
% change on same period last year	-34.13 %
Application Development Stoke-on-Trent
Matching contract IT job ads	44	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.002 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£340	-
Average daily rate	£360	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£380	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.29	-
Average hourly rate	£35.14	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
Adobe Flex Staffordshire

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 Stoke-on-Trent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Adobe Flex
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 8 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 8 (100.00 %) ActionScript 1 8 (100.00 %) Flash 2 7 (87.50 %) HTML 3 1 (12.50 %) Multimedia 3 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (12.50 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (12.50 %) Photoshop 3 1 (12.50 %) OOP 3 1 (12.50 %) OO

Adobe Flex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 7 (87.50 %) HTML	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Photoshop
Development Applications 1 8 (100.00 %) Flash 2 1 (12.50 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 8 (100.00 %) Developer 2 7 (87.50 %) Flash Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) OOP 1 1 (12.50 %) OO 1 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 8 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 8 (100.00 %) ActionScript