The first table below looks at the demand for the Flash Designer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flash Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Flash Designer
Rank 537 571 548
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Flash Designer 3 10 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.017% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.018% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 24
Average daily rate £363 £251 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.71% +0.20%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £150 £180
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £15.00
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2174 2589 2882
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Flash Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Flash Designer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Flash Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Flash Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Flash Designer Daily Rate Trend

Flash Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Flash Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Flash Designer
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flash Designer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 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
England +39 3 £363 +44.71%
London +14 2 £363 +28.77%
North West - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 - -

Flash Designer
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Flash Designer in their job title 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 with Flash Designer in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 9 (100.00%) Flash
2 7 (77.78%) ActionScript 3.0
2 7 (77.78%) HTML
2 7 (77.78%) ActionScript
3 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (66.67%) CSS
3 6 (66.67%) Adobe
3 6 (66.67%) Graphic Design
4 5 (55.56%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (44.44%) OOD
5 4 (44.44%) Web Services
5 4 (44.44%) OO
5 4 (44.44%) HTML5
5 4 (44.44%) Flash Builder
6 3 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
6 3 (33.33%) Dreamweaver
7 2 (22.22%) Multimedia
7 2 (22.22%) E-Learning
7 2 (22.22%) Marketing
7 2 (22.22%) Animation
8 1 (11.11%) Interactive Media
8 1 (11.11%) Time Management
8 1 (11.11%) Workflow
8 1 (11.11%) Digital Media
8 1 (11.11%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (11.11%) Orchard
8 1 (11.11%) OOP

Flash Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Flash Designer in their job title 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 with Flash Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) Flash
2 7 (77.78%) HTML
3 6 (66.67%) CSS
4 4 (44.44%) Web Services
4 4 (44.44%) HTML5
Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 5 (55.56%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe After Effects
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Flash Builder
2 3 (33.33%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (22.22%) Multimedia
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Interactive Media
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Graphic Design
2 2 (22.22%) E-Learning
2 2 (22.22%) Animation
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) OOD
1 4 (44.44%) OO
2 1 (11.11%) Time Management
2 1 (11.11%) Workflow
2 1 (11.11%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) ActionScript 3.0
1 7 (77.78%) ActionScript
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Orchard