Adobe Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe 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 Vendors for the West Midlands region.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Adobe Systems, Inc.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe
Rank 82 78 96
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +18
Contract jobs citing Adobe 15 27 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.920% 1.201% 0.209%
As % of the Vendors category 1.777% 2.435% 0.476%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 1
Average daily rate £283 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.28% -6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £300 £211
% change year-on-year
-0.83% +42.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Average hourly rate - £14.75 £14.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.51 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-14.33% -18.55%
All Vendors
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 844 1109 841
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 51.75% 49.31% 44.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 457 326
Average daily rate £330 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 96 100
Average hourly rate £19.50 £16.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £34.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Adobe
England

Adobe
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Adobe across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

West Midlands Adobe Jobs Demand Trend

Adobe
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Adobe across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Adobe Daily Rate Trend

Adobe
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Adobe across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Midlands Adobe Daily Rate Histogram

Adobe
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Adobe across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Adobe Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe within the West Midlands region 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
Worcestershire -12 6 £290 -
Birmingham +7 3 £300 -
Warwickshire -6 2 £333 -21.76%
Wolverhampton - 2 £258 -
Adobe
England

Adobe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Adobe 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 Adobe.

1 20 (68.97%) CSS
2 19 (65.52%) JavaScript
3 16 (55.17%) Photoshop
4 13 (44.83%) Flash
5 12 (41.38%) HTML
6 11 (37.93%) HTML5
7 9 (31.03%) Content Management
8 8 (27.59%) ActionScript
8 8 (27.59%) jQuery
9 7 (24.14%) CSS3
9 7 (24.14%) W3C
9 7 (24.14%) CMS
9 7 (24.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (20.69%) XHTML
10 6 (20.69%) Web Services
11 5 (17.24%) Oracle
11 5 (17.24%) OO
12 4 (13.79%) E-Learning
12 4 (13.79%) SEO
12 4 (13.79%) PHP
12 4 (13.79%) OOD
12 4 (13.79%) Digital Media
12 4 (13.79%) Adobe CQ
12 4 (13.79%) ActionScript 3.0
12 4 (13.79%) WordPress
12 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Content Management
12 4 (13.79%) Flash Builder
12 4 (13.79%) Time Management
12 4 (13.79%) Graphic Design
12 4 (13.79%) PHP5

Adobe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Adobe 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 Adobe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (68.97%) CSS
2 13 (44.83%) Flash
3 12 (41.38%) HTML
4 11 (37.93%) HTML5
5 8 (27.59%) jQuery
6 7 (24.14%) CSS3
7 6 (20.69%) XHTML
7 6 (20.69%) Web Services
8 3 (10.34%) Spring
8 3 (10.34%) RESTful
8 3 (10.34%) .NET
8 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
9 2 (6.897%) J2EE
9 2 (6.897%) XML
9 2 (6.897%) XSLT
9 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 2 (6.897%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (6.897%) WCF
9 2 (6.897%) JSON
9 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 7 (24.14%) CMS
2 4 (13.79%) Adobe CQ
2 4 (13.79%) WordPress
2 4 (13.79%) Joomla!
3 1 (3.448%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (55.17%) Photoshop
2 7 (24.14%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (10.34%) MS Excel
4 2 (6.897%) MS Office
5 1 (3.448%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (3.448%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (3.448%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) FTP
2 1 (3.448%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.897%) MySQL
1 2 (6.897%) SQL Server
1 2 (6.897%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Flash Builder
2 1 (3.448%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (6.897%) Publishing
1 2 (6.897%) Marketing
2 1 (3.448%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Web Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Front-End Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Programmer
4 4 (13.79%) Designer
5 3 (10.34%) Flash Designer
5 3 (10.34%) Flash Programmer
5 3 (10.34%) E-Learning Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Consultant
6 2 (6.897%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Technical Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Front-End Web Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Software Consultant
7 1 (3.448%) Java Web Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Flash ActionScript Developer
7 1 (3.448%) J2EE Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (3.448%) Web Designer
7 1 (3.448%) Flash Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) W3C
2 4 (13.79%) E-Learning
2 4 (13.79%) Digital Media
2 4 (13.79%) Graphic Design
3 2 (6.897%) SCORM
3 2 (6.897%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.448%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.448%) Kinect
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.897%) Windows
1 2 (6.897%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Content Management
2 5 (17.24%) OO
3 4 (13.79%) SEO
3 4 (13.79%) OOD
3 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Content Management
3 4 (13.79%) Time Management
4 3 (10.34%) E-Commerce
4 3 (10.34%) MVC
4 3 (10.34%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (10.34%) TDD
5 2 (6.897%) Scrum
6 1 (3.448%) User Experience Design
6 1 (3.448%) ITIL
6 1 (3.448%) ERP
6 1 (3.448%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.448%) Change Management
6 1 (3.448%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) JavaScript
2 8 (27.59%) ActionScript
3 4 (13.79%) PHP
3 4 (13.79%) ActionScript 3.0
3 4 (13.79%) PHP5
4 3 (10.34%) Java
5 2 (6.897%) J#
5 2 (6.897%) C#
5 2 (6.897%) VB
5 2 (6.897%) VB.NET
6 1 (3.448%) Groovy
6 1 (3.448%) SQL
6 1 (3.448%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (3.448%) Security Cleared
1 1 (3.448%) MCP
1 1 (3.448%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Stellent
3 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.897%) Macromedia
3 2 (6.897%) Apple
3 2 (6.897%) SAP
3 2 (6.897%) Alterian
4 1 (3.448%) IBM
4 1 (3.448%) Autodesk
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Birmingham, 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: £250 - £280 per day + DOE
Posted: 21 May 2013
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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...
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Rate: £330 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
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