The first table below looks at the demand for Flash 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 over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash
Rank 327 241 172
Rank change year-on-year
-86 -69
Contract jobs citing Flash 223 424 683
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.481% 0.728% 1.114%
As % of the Application Development category 1.754% 2.844% 4.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 232 416
Average daily rate £323 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £176 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £436 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £258 £263
% change year-on-year
+16.50% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 31 20
Average hourly rate £17.33 £22.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.00 £15.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.00 £35.00 £35.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £26.39
% change year-on-year
-13.37% -24.21%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Flash Daily Rate Trend

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Flash Hourly Rate Trend

Flash
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Flash Hourly Rate Histogram

Flash
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flash within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 -97 185 £320 +6.66%
London -57 115 £350 +12.00%
City of London -8 35 £290 -8.30%
South East -13 27 £281 +4.65%
Scotland -14 23 £475 +70.99%
Berkshire +6 17 £325 +23.80%
Stirling - 14 £475 -
East of England -8 12 £113 -64.56%
Yorkshire +5 11 £305 +39.42%
North West +6 9 £325 -7.14%
Hertfordshire -5 9 £113 -68.96%
Reading +17 7 £350 -
Manchester +9 7 £350 -
South West +20 6 £300 +50.00%
Wales +12 6 £180 -34.54%
South Wales +3 6 £180 -37.39%
West Midlands -7 6 £283 -5.83%
Edinburgh +4 5 £400 +33.33%
Bracknell - 5 £400 -
Stirlingshire - 5 £475 -
Surrey +24 4 £215 +59.25%
Wiltshire +8 4 £300 -
North Yorkshire +2 4 £343 +61.17%
Worcestershire -14 4 £290 -
York - 4 £343 -
Buckinghamshire +12 3 £250 -
Cambridgeshire +6 3 - -
Cambridge +5 3 - -
Salford +3 3 £350 +3.70%
Worcester -7 3 £271 -

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 222 (49.01%) HTML
2 200 (44.15%) JavaScript
3 199 (43.93%) CSS
4 167 (36.87%) Photoshop
5 164 (36.20%) ActionScript
6 131 (28.92%) Adobe
7 128 (28.26%) HTML5
8 103 (22.74%) Java
9 91 (20.09%) Adobe Illustrator
10 88 (19.43%) ActionScript 3.0
11 84 (18.54%) XML
12 74 (16.34%) Marketing
13 69 (15.23%) E-Commerce
14 67 (14.79%) PHP
15 63 (13.91%) jQuery
16 55 (12.14%) OO
17 53 (11.70%) XHTML
18 50 (11.04%) Games
18 50 (11.04%) CMS
19 45 (9.934%) Agile Software Development
20 44 (9.713%) Apache Flex
20 44 (9.713%) Scrum
21 43 (9.492%) Dreamweaver
22 41 (9.051%) ActionScript 2.0
22 41 (9.051%) Digital Media
23 40 (8.830%) Web Design
24 39 (8.609%) Mobile App
25 38 (8.389%) Web Services
25 38 (8.389%) Degree
26 37 (8.168%) Microsoft

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 222 (49.01%) HTML
2 199 (43.93%) CSS
3 128 (28.26%) HTML5
4 84 (18.54%) XML
5 63 (13.91%) jQuery
6 53 (11.70%) XHTML
7 44 (9.713%) Apache Flex
8 38 (8.389%) Web Services
9 36 (7.947%) .NET
10 33 (7.285%) Ajax
10 33 (7.285%) REST
11 32 (7.064%) Silverlight
12 29 (6.402%) JSON
13 25 (5.519%) CSS3
14 24 (5.298%) DHTML
15 20 (4.415%) J2EE
16 15 (3.311%) SOAP
17 14 (3.091%) Java EE
18 12 (2.649%) WSRP
18 12 (2.649%) JSR 168
Application Platforms
1 50 (11.04%) CMS
2 23 (5.077%) Adobe CQ
3 20 (4.415%) Apache
4 17 (3.753%) Drupal
5 12 (2.649%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (2.649%) Amazon AWS
5 12 (2.649%) Tomcat
6 7 (1.545%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.545%) Joomla!
7 6 (1.325%) IIS
7 6 (1.325%) WordPress
8 3 (0.662%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.662%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.442%) MS Exchange
9 2 (0.442%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.442%) MODX
10 1 (0.221%) CM System
10 1 (0.221%) Commerce Server
10 1 (0.221%) Moodle
10 1 (0.221%) LiveSite
Applications
1 167 (36.87%) Photoshop
2 91 (20.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 25 (5.519%) Fireworks
3 25 (5.519%) MS Visio
4 19 (4.194%) MS Excel
5 15 (3.311%) MS Office
5 15 (3.311%) InDesign
6 14 (3.091%) Adobe After Effects
7 12 (2.649%) Acrobat
8 8 (1.766%) MS PowerPoint
8 8 (1.766%) OmniGraffle
9 4 (0.883%) Maya
9 4 (0.883%) Shockwave
10 3 (0.662%) Quicktime
10 3 (0.662%) MS Project
10 3 (0.662%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.221%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.221%) QuarkXPress
11 1 (0.221%) FreeHand
11 1 (0.221%) 3ds Max
Business Applications
1 1 (0.221%) assyst
1 1 (0.221%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.168%) Internet
2 23 (5.077%) HTTP
3 18 (3.974%) DNS
4 17 (3.753%) SAN
5 13 (2.870%) RTP
5 13 (2.870%) Firewall
6 12 (2.649%) RTSP
6 12 (2.649%) Network Security
6 12 (2.649%) NAS
6 12 (2.649%) SSL
7 11 (2.428%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.325%) Intranet
8 6 (1.325%) FTP
9 4 (0.883%) Broadband
9 4 (0.883%) LTE
9 4 (0.883%) 3G
10 3 (0.662%) TELNET
10 3 (0.662%) xDSL
10 3 (0.662%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.662%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.726%) MySQL
2 20 (4.415%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.532%) CouchDB
4 13 (2.870%) Oracle 8/8i
4 13 (2.870%) RDBMS
5 12 (2.649%) MongoDB
5 12 (2.649%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.649%) Redis
6 5 (1.104%) DB2
7 4 (0.883%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.883%) SQL Server 2008
8 3 (0.662%) DbVisualizer
8 3 (0.662%) SQL Server 2005
8 3 (0.662%) SQL Server 2000
8 3 (0.662%) SQLite
8 3 (0.662%) OLAP
9 1 (0.221%) Informix
9 1 (0.221%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.221%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.221%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 43 (9.492%) Dreamweaver
2 24 (5.298%) Subversion
3 22 (4.857%) Git (software)
4 19 (4.194%) Maven
5 18 (3.974%) Selenium
6 16 (3.532%) Flash Builder
6 16 (3.532%) JIRA
7 15 (3.311%) Jenkins
8 13 (2.870%) Hudson
8 13 (2.870%) Expression Blend
9 10 (2.208%) Eclipse
10 8 (1.766%) Axure RP
11 6 (1.325%) JUnit
12 4 (0.883%) FrontPage
12 4 (0.883%) MTASC
12 4 (0.883%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.883%) GitHub
13 3 (0.662%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.662%) TestNG
13 3 (0.662%) Ant
General
1 74 (16.34%) Marketing
2 50 (11.04%) Games
3 33 (7.285%) Finance
4 24 (5.298%) Publishing
5 23 (5.077%) Telecoms
6 19 (4.194%) Multimedia
7 16 (3.532%) Retail
7 16 (3.532%) Legal
8 14 (3.091%) Advertising
9 12 (2.649%) Banking
10 8 (1.766%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.545%) Interactive Media
12 4 (0.883%) Music
12 4 (0.883%) Front Office
13 2 (0.442%) Electronics
13 2 (0.442%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.442%) Automotive
14 1 (0.221%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.221%) Back Office
14 1 (0.221%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 226 (49.89%) Developer
2 95 (20.97%) Designer
3 53 (11.70%) Web Developer
4 52 (11.48%) Flash Developer
5 30 (6.623%) Front-End Developer
6 24 (5.298%) Web Designer
7 22 (4.857%) UI Developer
7 22 (4.857%) UI Programmer
8 20 (4.415%) Flash ActionScript Developer
9 19 (4.194%) Web Producer
10 18 (3.974%) ActionScript Developer
11 16 (3.532%) Senior Developer
11 16 (3.532%) Lead Developer
12 15 (3.311%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.311%) Graphic Designer
13 14 (3.091%) Software Engineer
13 14 (3.091%) User Experience Designer
14 12 (2.649%) PHP Developer
14 12 (2.649%) Android Developer
15 11 (2.428%) Digital Designer
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.051%) Digital Media
2 39 (8.609%) Mobile App
3 31 (6.843%) Graphic Design
4 21 (4.636%) E-Learning
5 17 (3.753%) W3C
6 16 (3.532%) Animation
7 15 (3.311%) IPTV
8 14 (3.091%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (3.091%) Open Source
9 13 (2.870%) New Media
10 12 (2.649%) RIA
10 12 (2.649%) Interactive TV
10 12 (2.649%) Taxonomies
10 12 (2.649%) Ontologies
11 9 (1.987%) Social Media
12 8 (1.766%) Flash Lite
13 7 (1.545%) Visualisation
13 7 (1.545%) iPhone
13 7 (1.545%) Web 2.0
13 7 (1.545%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.168%) Apple iOS
2 36 (7.947%) Android
2 36 (7.947%) Linux
3 25 (5.519%) Windows
4 20 (4.415%) UNIX
5 6 (1.325%) Windows 7
6 5 (1.104%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.883%) Windows Mobile
7 4 (0.883%) Windows XP
8 2 (0.442%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.442%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.442%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.442%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (0.221%) CentOS
9 1 (0.221%) Windows Phone 7
9 1 (0.221%) Windows Phone
9 1 (0.221%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (15.23%) E-Commerce
2 55 (12.14%) OO
3 45 (9.934%) Agile Software Development
4 44 (9.713%) Scrum
5 40 (8.830%) Web Design
6 36 (7.947%) OOP
7 32 (7.064%) Content Management
8 29 (6.402%) TDD
8 29 (6.402%) Project Management
9 28 (6.181%) MVC
10 27 (5.960%) Information Architecture
11 25 (5.519%) Web Development
12 24 (5.298%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (3.532%) Penetration Testing
13 16 (3.532%) SEO
14 15 (3.311%) OOD
14 15 (3.311%) SOA
15 14 (3.091%) Time Management
15 14 (3.091%) Unit Testing
16 13 (2.870%) Online Marketing
Programming Languages
1 200 (44.15%) JavaScript
2 164 (36.20%) ActionScript
3 103 (22.74%) Java
4 88 (19.43%) ActionScript 3.0
5 67 (14.79%) PHP
6 41 (9.051%) ActionScript 2.0
7 32 (7.064%) SQL
8 27 (5.960%) C#
9 23 (5.077%) C++
9 23 (5.077%) Perl
10 16 (3.532%) C
10 16 (3.532%) Ruby
11 9 (1.987%) Objective-C
12 8 (1.766%) Python
13 7 (1.545%) XAML
14 6 (1.325%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.104%) Embedded C
16 4 (0.883%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.662%) VB
18 2 (0.442%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 38 (8.389%) Degree
2 2 (0.442%) OCP
2 2 (0.442%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (0.442%) ACCA
2 2 (0.442%) CIMA
3 1 (0.221%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.987%) QA
2 3 (0.662%) SLA
3 1 (0.221%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.221%) WAI
3 1 (0.221%) JTAG
System Software
1 12 (2.649%) Samba
2 4 (0.883%) SRDF
3 3 (0.662%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.442%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.221%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.221%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (1.766%) Nagios
1 8 (1.766%) OpenView
1 8 (1.766%) ZABBIX
1 8 (1.766%) Puppet
2 5 (1.104%) Tivoli
2 5 (1.104%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (0.442%) WSUS
3 2 (0.442%) SCCM
3 2 (0.442%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.221%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 131 (28.92%) Adobe
2 37 (8.168%) Microsoft
3 29 (6.402%) Oracle
4 16 (3.532%) JBoss
5 12 (2.649%) Rackspace
6 10 (2.208%) IBM
7 8 (1.766%) RightScale
8 7 (1.545%) Cisco
9 6 (1.325%) Facebook
9 6 (1.325%) Twitter
9 6 (1.325%) Google
9 6 (1.325%) Symantec
10 5 (1.104%) Apple
10 5 (1.104%) HP
11 4 (0.883%) EMC
11 4 (0.883%) OpenTV
12 3 (0.662%) Stellent
12 3 (0.662%) Freescale
13 2 (0.442%) ATG
13 2 (0.442%) Zend
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