The first table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Application Development category for the Swindon 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash
Rank 38 41 32
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -9
Contract jobs citing Flash 2 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.667% 0.275% 1.577%
As % of the Application Development category 3.448% 1.587% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
Average daily rate £220 - £215
90% offered a daily rate of more than £156 - £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £284 - £297
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £275 £275
% change year-on-year
+5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £24.39
% change year-on-year
-13.37% -17.99%
All Application Development
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
58 63 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 19.33% 17.36% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 46 30
Average daily rate £325 £335 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% -10.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £242 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Flash
Wiltshire

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Swindon Flash Daily Rate Histogram

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (50.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (50.00%) New Media
2 1 (50.00%) Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Acrobat
2 1 (50.00%) QuarkXPress
2 1 (50.00%) FreeHand
2 1 (50.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (50.00%) Acrobat
2 1 (50.00%) QuarkXPress
2 1 (50.00%) FreeHand
2 1 (50.00%) Fireworks
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (50.00%) Axure RP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) New Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe