The first table below looks at the demand for Flash Builder skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash Builder over the 3 months to 19 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 Development Applications category.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash Builder
Rank 531 560 578
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +18
Contract jobs citing Flash Builder 10 10 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.021% 0.017% 0.037%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.189% 0.182% 0.344%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 11
Average daily rate £289 - £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 - £420
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5287 5509 6681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.99% 9.493% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3305 3239 3901
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 213 289
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £22.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%

Flash Builder
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Flash Builder within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Flash Builder Jobs Demand Trend

Flash Builder
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Flash Builder within the UK.

Flash Builder Daily Rate Trend

Flash Builder
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Flash Builder within the UK.

Flash Builder Hourly Rate Trend

Flash Builder
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flash Builder within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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
England +8 4 £289 - 2
London - 3 £288 - 1
City of London - 2 £289 -
West Midlands - - - - 1
Stoke-on-Trent - - - - 1
Staffordshire - - - - 1
Scotland - - - -
Glasgow - - - -

Flash Builder
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Flash Builder 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 Builder.

1 14 (100.00%) Flash
2 9 (64.29%) Adobe
3 8 (57.14%) Apache Flex
4 7 (50.00%) XML
5 6 (42.86%) Eclipse
5 6 (42.86%) Java
5 6 (42.86%) ActionScript
5 6 (42.86%) Servlets
5 6 (42.86%) DWR
5 6 (42.86%) Java EE
5 6 (42.86%) Spring
5 6 (42.86%) JPA
5 6 (42.86%) ActionScript 3.0
6 4 (28.57%) Parsley
6 4 (28.57%) HTML
6 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 4 (28.57%) CSS
7 3 (21.43%) OO
7 3 (21.43%) OOD
7 3 (21.43%) Photoshop
7 3 (21.43%) Graphic Design
7 3 (21.43%) HTML5
8 2 (14.29%) Web Services
9 1 (7.143%) PHP
9 1 (7.143%) MySQL
9 1 (7.143%) Windows
9 1 (7.143%) Ajax
9 1 (7.143%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (7.143%) Marketing
9 1 (7.143%) LAMP

Flash Builder
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Flash Builder 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 Builder. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (100.00%) Flash
2 8 (57.14%) Apache Flex
3 7 (50.00%) XML
4 6 (42.86%) Servlets
4 6 (42.86%) DWR
4 6 (42.86%) Java EE
4 6 (42.86%) Spring
4 6 (42.86%) JPA
5 4 (28.57%) Parsley
5 4 (28.57%) HTML
5 4 (28.57%) CSS
6 3 (21.43%) HTML5
7 2 (14.29%) Web Services
8 1 (7.143%) Ajax
8 1 (7.143%) LAMP
8 1 (7.143%) jQuery
8 1 (7.143%) Zend Framework
8 1 (7.143%) Robotlegs
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (7.143%) Marketing
1 1 (7.143%) Games
1 1 (7.143%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Flex Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Flash Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Designer
4 2 (14.29%) ActionScript Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) Web Designer
5 1 (7.143%) Flash Designer
5 1 (7.143%) Flash Programmer
5 1 (7.143%) Flash ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Graphic Design
2 1 (7.143%) Mobile Games
2 1 (7.143%) Streaming Video
2 1 (7.143%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) Windows
1 1 (7.143%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (7.143%) Android
1 1 (7.143%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.143%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) OO
1 3 (21.43%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
1 6 (42.86%) ActionScript
1 6 (42.86%) ActionScript 3.0
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.143%) PHP
3 1 (7.143%) ActionScript 2.0
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Adobe
2 1 (7.143%) Zend
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