West Yorkshire Flash Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) skills within the West Yorkshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash)
Location Ashton-under-Lyne Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crewe Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	81
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	22	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	13.66 %	8.242 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£206	£160
Average daily rate	£224	£170
% change on same period last year	+31.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£241	£180
UK excluding London average daily rate	£241	£242
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.00	£10.50
Average hourly rate	£13.00	£10.50
% change on same period last year	+23.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	£10.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.24	£26.17
% change on same period last year	-7.38 %
Development Applications West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	161	182
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.215 %	0.184 %
Daily rates quoted	36	30
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£286
Average daily rate	£292	£300
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£301	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.33	£23.56
Average hourly rate	£21.42	£24.66
% change on same period last year	-13.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.50	£25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.89	£34.13
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Flash Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Yorkshire region.

Flash
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Flash across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Flash
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flash within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Leeds	-2	11	£148	-
Wakefield	-	4	-	-
Bradford	-1	1	£200	+17.64 %
Huddersfield	-	1	£400	-
Dewsbury	-	1	-	-
Otley	-	1	-	-

Flash Yorkshire

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 31 (51.67 %) HTML 2 27 (45.00 %) CSS 3 21 (35.00 %) Photoshop 4 20 (33.33 %) ActionScript 5 19 (31.67 %) JavaScript 6 14 (23.33 %) Adobe 6 14 (23.33 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 14 (23.33 %) XHTML 7 13 (21.67 %) E-Learning 8 11 (18.33 %) SCORM 8 11 (18.33 %) Dreamweaver 9 10 (16.67 %) Fireworks 10 9 (15.00 %) Web Design 10 9 (15.00 %) XML 10 9 (15.00 %) .NET

11 7 (11.67 %) MS Office 11 7 (11.67 %) Microsoft 11 7 (11.67 %) Marketing 12 6 (10.00 %) E-Commerce 12 6 (10.00 %) MS Visio 12 6 (10.00 %) NHS 12 6 (10.00 %) SEO 12 6 (10.00 %) Finance 12 6 (10.00 %) MS Excel 13 4 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 13 4 (6.667 %) C# 13 4 (6.667 %) Project Management 13 4 (6.667 %) W3C 13 4 (6.667 %) Web Development 13 4 (6.667 %) Adobe Flex

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 31 (51.67 %) HTML 2 27 (45.00 %) CSS 3 14 (23.33 %) XHTML 4 9 (15.00 %) XML 4 9 (15.00 %) .NET 5 4 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (6.667 %) Adobe Flex 6 3 (5.000 %) Silverlight 7 2 (3.333 %) AJAX 7 2 (3.333 %) WebServices 8 1 (1.667 %) ASP 8 1 (1.667 %) JDBC 8 1 (1.667 %) JSP 8 1 (1.667 %) Servlets 8 1 (1.667 %) Struts 8 1 (1.667 %) Flex 2 8 1 (1.667 %) JAAS 8 1 (1.667 %) JNDI 8 1 (1.667 %) Taglibs	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.000 %) CMS 2 2 (3.333 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (1.667 %) WebLogic 3 1 (1.667 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 21 (35.00 %) Photoshop 2 14 (23.33 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 10 (16.67 %) Fireworks 4 7 (11.67 %) MS Office 5 6 (10.00 %) MS Excel 5 6 (10.00 %) MS Visio 6 3 (5.000 %) FreeHand 6 3 (5.000 %) InDesign 7 1 (1.667 %) MS PowerPoint 7 1 (1.667 %) MS Project 7 1 (1.667 %) ImageReady	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.667 %) LDAP 1 1 (1.667 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.000 %) MySQL 1 3 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 11 (18.33 %) Dreamweaver 2 2 (3.333 %) Subversion 2 2 (3.333 %) Eclipse 2 2 (3.333 %) MTASC 3 1 (1.667 %) FrontPage 3 1 (1.667 %) Ant 3 1 (1.667 %) Visual Studio
General 1 7 (11.67 %) Marketing 2 6 (10.00 %) Finance 3 2 (3.333 %) Financial Institution 3 2 (3.333 %) Health 3 2 (3.333 %) Legal 3 2 (3.333 %) Multimedia 4 1 (1.667 %) Billing 4 1 (1.667 %) Animation 4 1 (1.667 %) Retail 4 1 (1.667 %) Law 4 1 (1.667 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.667 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.667 %) Education	Job Titles 1 39 (65.00 %) Developer 2 22 (36.67 %) Web Designer 3 15 (25.00 %) Web Developer 4 11 (18.33 %) E-Learning Developer 5 10 (16.67 %) Flash Developer 6 3 (5.000 %) ActionScript Developer 6 3 (5.000 %) Flash Designer 7 2 (3.333 %) Senior Flash Designer 7 2 (3.333 %) Photoshop Designer 7 2 (3.333 %) Senior Flash Developer 7 2 (3.333 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (3.333 %) .NET Developer 7 2 (3.333 %) C# Developer 8 1 (1.667 %) Graduate 8 1 (1.667 %) Junior 8 1 (1.667 %) Programmer 8 1 (1.667 %) Administrator 8 1 (1.667 %) Java Developer 8 1 (1.667 %) HTML Developer 8 1 (1.667 %) Graduate Developer
Miscellaneous 1 13 (21.67 %) E-Learning 2 11 (18.33 %) SCORM 3 6 (10.00 %) NHS 4 4 (6.667 %) W3C 5 2 (3.333 %) Mathematics 6 1 (1.667 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.667 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (15.00 %) Web Design 2 6 (10.00 %) SEO 2 6 (10.00 %) E-Commerce 3 4 (6.667 %) Project Management 3 4 (6.667 %) Web Development 4 3 (5.000 %) Email Marketing 4 3 (5.000 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (5.000 %) OOP 5 2 (3.333 %) Content Management 5 2 (3.333 %) UML 6 1 (1.667 %) Knowledge Management 6 1 (1.667 %) Internet Marketing	Programming Languages 1 20 (33.33 %) ActionScript 2 19 (31.67 %) JavaScript 3 4 (6.667 %) C# 4 3 (5.000 %) DHTML 4 3 (5.000 %) PHP 5 2 (3.333 %) Java 6 1 (1.667 %) SQL
Vendors 1 14 (23.33 %) Adobe 2 7 (11.67 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.667 %) Oracle