Thames Valley Flash Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) skills within the Thames Valley region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash)
Location Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	37
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	5	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	7.042 %	26.92 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£175	£295
Average daily rate	£200	£298
% change on same period last year	-32.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£225	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£239	£240
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
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	£24.59	£27.75
% change on same period last year	-11.38 %
Development Applications Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	71	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.052 %
Daily rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£290
Average daily rate	£309	£295
% change on same period last year	+4.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£329
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£36.67
Average hourly rate	-	£39.58
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.97	£32.21
% change on same period last year	+2.35 %
Flash South East

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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley region.

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Flash
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 5 (62.50 %) HTML 1 5 (62.50 %) .NET 1 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (50.00 %) CSS 2 4 (50.00 %) JavaScript 3 3 (37.50 %) C# 3 3 (37.50 %) DHTML 3 3 (37.50 %) SQL 3 3 (37.50 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 3 (37.50 %) XHTML 3 3 (37.50 %) Photoshop 4 2 (25.00 %) Marketing 4 2 (25.00 %) Web Development 4 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 4 2 (25.00 %) 3ds Max

4 2 (25.00 %) LightWave 3D 5 1 (12.50 %) E-Learning 5 1 (12.50 %) XML 5 1 (12.50 %) XSL 5 1 (12.50 %) MySQL 5 1 (12.50 %) PHP 5 1 (12.50 %) jQuery 5 1 (12.50 %) MooTools 5 1 (12.50 %) AJAX 5 1 (12.50 %) Shockwave

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 5 (62.50 %) HTML 1 5 (62.50 %) .NET 1 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (50.00 %) CSS 3 3 (37.50 %) XHTML 4 1 (12.50 %) AJAX 4 1 (12.50 %) jQuery 4 1 (12.50 %) MooTools 4 1 (12.50 %) XML 4 1 (12.50 %) XSL	Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) Photoshop 1 3 (37.50 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 2 (25.00 %) 3ds Max 2 2 (25.00 %) LightWave 3D 3 1 (12.50 %) Shockwave
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (12.50 %) MySQL	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Developer 2 4 (50.00 %) Web Developer 3 3 (37.50 %) Web Designer 4 1 (12.50 %) Flash Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Graphic Designer 4 1 (12.50 %) Photoshop Designer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) E-Learning
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) JavaScript 2 3 (37.50 %) C# 2 3 (37.50 %) DHTML 2 3 (37.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) PHP