West Midlands Dreamweaver Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Dreamweaver over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington City of London Corby Crewe Derby Derbyshire Dewsbury Docklands, London East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wymondham Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	106	122
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	16	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	6.504 %	1.858 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£233	£230
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£18.40	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-8.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.80	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.99	£22.51
% change on same period last year	+2.14 %
Development Applications West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	246	323
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.327 %	0.327 %
Daily rates quoted	47	51
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£280
Average daily rate	£305	£300
% change on same period last year	+1.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.28	£21.93
Average hourly rate	£24.08	£26.11
% change on same period last year	-7.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.89	£30.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.15	£33.95
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
Dreamweaver England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Dreamweaver
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Dreamweaver across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Dreamweaver
Daily Rate Trend

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

Dreamweaver
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Dreamweaver
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Dreamweaver across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Dreamweaver
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dreamweaver within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warwickshire	-	10	-	-
Birmingham	+14	3	-	-
Staffordshire	-	1	-	-

Dreamweaver England

Dreamweaver
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Dreamweaver 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 Dreamweaver.

1 25 (62.50 %) JavaScript 1 25 (62.50 %) Flash 2 24 (60.00 %) HTML 3 22 (55.00 %) CSS 4 16 (40.00 %) XHTML 5 13 (32.50 %) Adobe 5 13 (32.50 %) Photoshop 6 10 (25.00 %) ActionScript 6 10 (25.00 %) XSLT 6 10 (25.00 %) AJAX 7 9 (22.50 %) W3C 8 7 (17.50 %) XML 8 7 (17.50 %) ASP 8 7 (17.50 %) Web Development 8 7 (17.50 %) Web Design

9 6 (15.00 %) DOM 9 6 (15.00 %) JSP 9 6 (15.00 %) MySQL 10 5 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 10 5 (12.50 %) E-Learning 10 5 (12.50 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 4 (10.00 %) InDesign 11 4 (10.00 %) Marketing 11 4 (10.00 %) Quark 11 4 (10.00 %) Fireworks 11 4 (10.00 %) Intranet 11 4 (10.00 %) DHTML 11 4 (10.00 %) Adobe Flex 12 3 (7.500 %) Java 12 3 (7.500 %) Oracle

Dreamweaver
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Dreamweaver 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 Dreamweaver. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (60.00 %) HTML 2 22 (55.00 %) CSS 3 16 (40.00 %) XHTML 4 10 (25.00 %) AJAX 4 10 (25.00 %) XSLT 5 7 (17.50 %) XML 5 7 (17.50 %) ASP 6 6 (15.00 %) DOM 6 6 (15.00 %) JSP 7 4 (10.00 %) Adobe Flex 8 2 (5.000 %) XSD 9 1 (2.500 %) .NET 9 1 (2.500 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (2.500 %) Hibernate 9 1 (2.500 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 3 (7.500 %) CMS 2 1 (2.500 %) Apache 2 1 (2.500 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 13 (32.50 %) Photoshop 2 5 (12.50 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 4 (10.00 %) InDesign 3 4 (10.00 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 4 (10.00 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (15.00 %) MySQL 2 1 (2.500 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 25 (62.50 %) Flash 2 1 (2.500 %) Eclipse 2 1 (2.500 %) FrontPage
General 1 4 (10.00 %) Marketing 2 3 (7.500 %) Finance 3 2 (5.000 %) Video Editing 4 1 (2.500 %) Government 4 1 (2.500 %) Publishing 4 1 (2.500 %) Multimedia	Job Titles 1 32 (80.00 %) Developer 2 17 (42.50 %) Web Developer 3 6 (15.00 %) Web Designer 4 4 (10.00 %) ASP Developer 4 4 (10.00 %) Graphic Designer 4 4 (10.00 %) Flash Designer 5 3 (7.500 %) E-Learning Developer 5 3 (7.500 %) JSP Developer 5 3 (7.500 %) Flash Developer 6 2 (5.000 %) Java Developer 7 1 (2.500 %) Analyst 7 1 (2.500 %) Junior Web Developer 7 1 (2.500 %) Junior Developer 7 1 (2.500 %) ActionScript Developer 7 1 (2.500 %) Java Web Developer 7 1 (2.500 %) Photoshop Designer 7 1 (2.500 %) MI Analyst 7 1 (2.500 %) Technical Lead 7 1 (2.500 %) Junior
Miscellaneous 1 9 (22.50 %) W3C 2 5 (12.50 %) E-Learning	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (17.50 %) Web Design 1 7 (17.50 %) Web Development 2 5 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (7.500 %) Content Management 4 1 (2.500 %) OOP 4 1 (2.500 %) OO 4 1 (2.500 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 25 (62.50 %) JavaScript 2 10 (25.00 %) ActionScript 3 4 (10.00 %) DHTML 4 3 (7.500 %) Java 5 2 (5.000 %) SQL 6 1 (2.500 %) C 6 1 (2.500 %) PHP	Vendors 1 13 (32.50 %) Adobe 2 4 (10.00 %) Quark 3 3 (7.500 %) Oracle 4 2 (5.000 %) Macromedia 5 1 (2.500 %) Business Objects