West Midlands Flash Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) 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 Flash over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash)
Location Ashton-under-Lyne Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derbyshire Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port Enfield England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wycombe Wymondham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	99
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	37	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	15.55 %	12.35 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£275
Average daily rate	-	£288
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£233	£248
% change on same period last year	-5.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.00	£12.50
Average hourly rate	£19.50	£14.50
% change on same period last year	+34.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£27.37
% change on same period last year	-13.11 %
Development Applications West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	238	332
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.322 %	0.327 %
Daily rates quoted	49	53
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£289
Average daily rate	£306	£307
% change on same period last year	-0.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£335
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.37	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£27.24	£27.92
% change on same period last year	-2.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.11	£30.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.31	£33.09
% change on same period last year	+0.68 %
Flash 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.

Flash
Demand Trend

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

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

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

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Flash
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Flash
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 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	+13	12	-	-
Staffordshire	+1	11	-	-
Birmingham	0	7	-	-
Coventry	+1	5	-	-
Walsall	-	1	-	-

Flash England

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 45 (58.44 %) JavaScript 2 44 (57.14 %) HTML 3 41 (53.25 %) ActionScript 4 28 (36.36 %) CSS 5 22 (28.57 %) Dreamweaver 6 21 (27.27 %) XHTML 6 21 (27.27 %) Photoshop 7 20 (25.97 %) XML 8 18 (23.38 %) Adobe Flex 9 17 (22.08 %) AJAX 10 15 (19.48 %) Adobe 11 13 (16.88 %) .NET 12 11 (14.29 %) E-Commerce 13 10 (12.99 %) PHP 14 8 (10.39 %) XSLT

14 8 (10.39 %) W3C 14 8 (10.39 %) Adobe Illustrator 14 8 (10.39 %) Web Development 15 7 (9.091 %) E-Learning 16 6 (7.792 %) ASP 16 6 (7.792 %) ASP.NET 17 5 (6.494 %) OO 17 5 (6.494 %) Web Design 17 5 (6.494 %) Games 18 4 (5.195 %) Social Network 18 4 (5.195 %) Stellent 18 4 (5.195 %) InDesign 18 4 (5.195 %) MySQL 18 4 (5.195 %) Quark 18 4 (5.195 %) Fireworks

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 44 (57.14 %) HTML 2 28 (36.36 %) CSS 3 21 (27.27 %) XHTML 4 20 (25.97 %) XML 5 18 (23.38 %) Adobe Flex 6 17 (22.08 %) AJAX 7 13 (16.88 %) .NET 8 8 (10.39 %) XSLT 9 6 (7.792 %) ASP 9 6 (7.792 %) ASP.NET 10 3 (3.896 %) DOM 11 2 (2.597 %) XSD 11 2 (2.597 %) Silverlight 12 1 (1.299 %) LAMP	Applications 1 21 (27.27 %) Photoshop 2 8 (10.39 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 4 (5.195 %) InDesign 3 4 (5.195 %) Fireworks 4 2 (2.597 %) 3ds Max 5 1 (1.299 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.597 %) Internet 2 1 (1.299 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (5.195 %) MySQL 2 2 (2.597 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 22 (28.57 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 5 (6.494 %) Games 2 3 (3.896 %) Graphic Design 2 3 (3.896 %) Video Editing 3 2 (2.597 %) Retail 3 2 (2.597 %) Multimedia 3 2 (2.597 %) Marketing 3 2 (2.597 %) Back Office 3 2 (2.597 %) Finance 4 1 (1.299 %) Government 4 1 (1.299 %) Advertising 4 1 (1.299 %) Mobile Games 4 1 (1.299 %) Flash Games
Job Titles 1 61 (79.22 %) Developer 2 27 (35.06 %) Flash Developer 3 15 (19.48 %) Web Developer 4 11 (14.29 %) Web Designer 5 7 (9.091 %) ActionScript Developer 5 7 (9.091 %) Flash Designer 6 5 (6.494 %) Graphic Designer 7 4 (5.195 %) PHP Developer 8 3 (3.896 %) Flex Developer 8 3 (3.896 %) Flash Programmer 8 3 (3.896 %) E-Learning Developer 8 3 (3.896 %) HTML Developer 8 3 (3.896 %) Programmer 8 3 (3.896 %) Junior 9 2 (2.597 %) Project Manager 9 2 (2.597 %) .NET Developer 9 2 (2.597 %) C# Developer 9 2 (2.597 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 2 (2.597 %) Junior Project Manager 9 2 (2.597 %) Photoshop Designer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (10.39 %) W3C 2 7 (9.091 %) E-Learning 3 4 (5.195 %) Social Network 4 1 (1.299 %) Streaming Media 4 1 (1.299 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.299 %) Streaming Video
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (14.29 %) E-Commerce 2 8 (10.39 %) Web Development 3 5 (6.494 %) Web Design 3 5 (6.494 %) OO 4 2 (2.597 %) OOP 4 2 (2.597 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.299 %) Internet Marketing 5 1 (1.299 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 45 (58.44 %) JavaScript 2 41 (53.25 %) ActionScript 3 10 (12.99 %) PHP 4 4 (5.195 %) DHTML 5 3 (3.896 %) Java 5 3 (3.896 %) C# 5 3 (3.896 %) SQL 6 2 (2.597 %) PHP5 7 1 (1.299 %) Ruby 7 1 (1.299 %) VB.NET 7 1 (1.299 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (1.299 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.597 %) WAI
Vendors 1 15 (19.48 %) Adobe 2 4 (5.195 %) Quark 2 4 (5.195 %) Stellent 3 1 (1.299 %) Apple 3 1 (1.299 %) Microsoft