West Midlands FreeHand Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Macromedia FreeHand skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited FreeHand over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Macromedia FreeHand
Location Dorset East of England England Hertfordshire South East South West St Albans Thames Valley UK West Midlands	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	135
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.144 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£150
Average daily rate	-	£164
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£178
UK excluding London average daily rate	£200	£164
% change on same period last year	+22.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£16.01
% change on same period last year	-
Applications West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	446	437
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.603 %	0.431 %
Daily rates quoted	97	85
Average minimum daily rate	£272	£246
Average daily rate	£292	£257
% change on same period last year	+13.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£269
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£291
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	91	122
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.81	£14.48
Average hourly rate	£16.30	£15.57
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.80	£16.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.59	£19.58
% change on same period last year	-5.05 %
FreeHand 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing FreeHand 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 FreeHand.

1 1 (100.00 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (100.00 %) Adobe 1 1 (100.00 %) Adobe Illustrator

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing FreeHand 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 FreeHand. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) Adobe Illustrator	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) E-Commerce
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Adobe