The first table below looks at the demand for Shockwave skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shockwave over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Shockwave
Rank 540 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Shockwave 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Applications category 0.016% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £195 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
6072 7252 7369
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 13.10% 12.42% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3156 3715 3677
Average daily rate £340 £350 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -5.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £513 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 681 748 880
Average hourly rate £16.00 £16.00 £16.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%

Shockwave
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shockwave Jobs Demand Trend

Shockwave
Daily Rate Trend

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

Shockwave Daily Rate Trend

Shockwave
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Shockwave Hourly Rate Trend

Shockwave
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shockwave within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 - 1 £195 -
City of London - 1 £195 -
London - 1 £195 -

Shockwave
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Shockwave 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 Shockwave.

1 4 (80.00%) Flash
2 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (40.00%) Adobe
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Acrobat
2 2 (40.00%) Symantec
2 2 (40.00%) WSUS
2 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) E-Learning
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) ASP
3 1 (20.00%) CSS

Shockwave
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Shockwave 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 Shockwave. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) Flash
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) ASP
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Acrobat
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) CSS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Classic ASP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) ASP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) HTML Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graphic Designer
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) Symantec