Flex Developer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Flex Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flex Developer in their job title 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Flex Developer
Rank 477 506 383
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -123
Contract jobs requiring a Flex Developer 53 72 211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.114% 0.124% 0.344%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.124% 0.133% 0.371%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 42 138
Average daily rate £500 £448 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.73% -18.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £357 £288 £344
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £550 £658
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+23.47% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
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 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Flex Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Flex Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Flex Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Flex Developer Daily Rate Trend

Flex Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Flex Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Flex Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Flex Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Flex Developer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flex Developer 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 +6 27 £500 +5.26%
Scotland +8 24 £500 -
Glasgow +3 24 £500 -
London -13 21 £513 +5.12%
South West - 5 £350 -
City of London +8 2 £575 +39.39%
Canary Wharf -7 2 £500 -16.66%
Bath - 2 £355 -
Somerset - 2 £355 -
South East +24 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £350 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Havant - 1 - -

Flex Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Flex Developer 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 Flex Developer in their job title.

1 64 (95.52%) Apache Flex
2 57 (85.07%) Java
3 48 (71.64%) Adobe
4 42 (62.69%) Parsley
5 31 (46.27%) Cairngorm
6 27 (40.30%) HTML5
6 27 (40.30%) JavaScript
7 26 (38.81%) Finance
8 19 (28.36%) Fixed Income
9 17 (25.37%) Sencha
10 16 (23.88%) MVC
11 15 (22.39%) Banking
12 13 (19.40%) Front Office
13 12 (17.91%) Maven
13 12 (17.91%) Adobe AIR
14 11 (16.42%) RIA
14 11 (16.42%) CSS
15 10 (14.93%) OOP
15 10 (14.93%) Agile Software Development
15 10 (14.93%) Spring
15 10 (14.93%) Dependency Injection
16 9 (13.43%) FlexUnit
16 9 (13.43%) Windows
16 9 (13.43%) UML
16 9 (13.43%) ActionScript
17 8 (11.94%) Flash
17 8 (11.94%) ActionScript 3.0
17 8 (11.94%) JIRA
17 8 (11.94%) Investment Banking
17 8 (11.94%) Investment Management

Flex Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Flex Developer 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 Flex Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 64 (95.52%) Apache Flex
2 42 (62.69%) Parsley
3 31 (46.27%) Cairngorm
4 27 (40.30%) HTML5
5 12 (17.91%) Adobe AIR
6 11 (16.42%) CSS
7 10 (14.93%) Spring
8 8 (11.94%) Flash
9 7 (10.45%) Hibernate
9 7 (10.45%) BlazeDS
10 5 (7.463%) Java SE
11 3 (4.478%) Java EE
11 3 (4.478%) HTML
12 2 (2.985%) J2EE
12 2 (2.985%) JMS
12 2 (2.985%) Middleware
12 2 (2.985%) Servlets
12 2 (2.985%) XML
12 2 (2.985%) DWR
12 2 (2.985%) PureMVC
Application Platforms
1 7 (10.45%) Confluence
2 2 (2.985%) Lightstreamer
2 2 (2.985%) LiveCycle
3 1 (1.493%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.493%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) Internet
2 5 (7.463%) Firewall
3 2 (2.985%) HTTP
4 1 (1.493%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.985%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.493%) DB2
2 1 (1.493%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.493%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (1.493%) KDB
Development Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Maven
2 9 (13.43%) FlexUnit
3 8 (11.94%) JIRA
4 4 (5.970%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.985%) Flash Builder
6 1 (1.493%) JUnit
6 1 (1.493%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.493%) CruiseControl
6 1 (1.493%) Selenium
6 1 (1.493%) Aptana Studio
General
1 26 (38.81%) Finance
2 15 (22.39%) Banking
3 13 (19.40%) Front Office
4 8 (11.94%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.493%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.493%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.493%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.36%) Fixed Income
2 11 (16.42%) RIA
3 3 (4.478%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.478%) Informatics
3 3 (4.478%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.985%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.493%) SaaS
5 1 (1.493%) Social Gaming
5 1 (1.493%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.493%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.43%) Windows
2 3 (4.478%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.88%) MVC
2 10 (14.93%) OOP
2 10 (14.93%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (14.93%) Dependency Injection
3 9 (13.43%) UML
4 8 (11.94%) Investment Management
5 7 (10.45%) Business Analysis
5 7 (10.45%) Unit Testing
6 6 (8.955%) Scrum
7 4 (5.970%) OO
7 4 (5.970%) Analytics
8 3 (4.478%) Automated Testing
8 3 (4.478%) Integration Testing
8 3 (4.478%) Electronic Trading
9 2 (2.985%) E-Commerce
9 2 (2.985%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (2.985%) Information Architecture
10 1 (1.493%) User Stories
10 1 (1.493%) Configuration Management
10 1 (1.493%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (85.07%) Java
2 27 (40.30%) JavaScript
3 9 (13.43%) ActionScript
4 8 (11.94%) ActionScript 3.0
5 1 (1.493%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.493%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (1.493%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.493%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.985%) QA
Vendors
1 48 (71.64%) Adobe
2 17 (25.37%) Sencha
3 1 (1.493%) Twitter
3 1 (1.493%) InterSystems
3 1 (1.493%) Oracle
3 1 (1.493%) Sybase
3 1 (1.493%) JBoss
Java / Flex Developer - Birmingham - £330 - 350
West Midlands
A Birmingham CC based software house is currently recruiting for a very strong, commercially experienced contract Java / Adobe Flex developer. You will be using Java object orientated development...
Computer Futures
Rate: £330 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
Flex / ActionScript Developer - London
City, London
The ideal candidate for this role would have commercial experience with both Flex and ActionScript 3 specifically... For more information about Senitor and the opportunities we have to...
Senitor Associates
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Flex Developer - Tier 1 Investment Bank
City, London
Knowledge of Spring, AOP, and Spring security... Experience with Python, especially object oriented programming using Python. Experience with relational database technologies including Oracle, Sybase etc. Experience of middleware.
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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