Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the England region.

 Adobe Flash
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank8791110
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+19
Matching permanent IT job ads189218703485
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England2.328 %2.332 %1.812 %
As % of the Application Development category6.327 %6.670 %5.525 %
Salaries quoted169616143146
Average salary£34,000£32,500£31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.610 %+4.830 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£47,500£42,500
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£28,000
% change year-on-year
-+7.140 %
England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
299032803863075
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England36.80 %34.96 %32.79 %
Salaries quoted262092405554058
Average salary£38,500£36,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.940 %-4.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,000£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Flash UKFlash
UK

Flash
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Flash across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England Flash Demand Trend

Flash
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Flash across the England region.

England Flash Salary Trend

Flash
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Flash across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England Flash Salary Histogram

Flash
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Flash within the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonDown-6928£37,500+2.73 %
South EastDown-15323£32,000-1.53 %
East of EnglandUp+34161£37,000+23.33 %
North WestUp+26150£27,500+10.00 %
West MidlandsUp+38140£23,000-17.11 %
YorkshireUp+687£30,000+20.00 %
South WestDown-7649£30,000-
East MidlandsDown-346£25,000-9.09 %
MidlandsUp+78£22,500-35.71 %
North EastUp+176£29,500-18.62 %
Flash UKFlash
UK

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Flash.

12184 (56.39 %)CSS
22013 (51.98 %)HTML
31825 (47.12 %)JavaScript
41668 (43.07 %)ActionScript
51492 (38.52 %)Photoshop
61056 (27.27 %)PHP
7953 (24.61 %)XHTML
8921 (23.78 %)Adobe Illustrator
9907 (23.42 %)XML
10853 (22.02 %)ActionScript 3.0
11830 (21.43 %).NET
12815 (21.04 %)Adobe Flex
13780 (20.14 %)Adobe
14761 (19.65 %)AJAX
15595 (15.36 %)MySQL
16568 (14.67 %)SQL
17566 (14.61 %)Marketing
18552 (14.25 %)ASP.NET
19545 (14.07 %)Web Development
20510 (13.17 %)ActionScript 2.0
21464 (11.98 %)C#
22459 (11.85 %)Dreamweaver
23452 (11.67 %)Internet
24447 (11.54 %)OO
25425 (10.97 %)E-Commerce
26418 (10.79 %)SQL Server
27408 (10.53 %)Games
28398 (10.28 %)jQuery
29382 (9.863 %)CMS
29382 (9.863 %)SEO

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Flash. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12184 (56.39 %)CSS
22013 (51.98 %)HTML
3953 (24.61 %)XHTML
4907 (23.42 %)XML
5830 (21.43 %).NET
6815 (21.04 %)Adobe Flex
7761 (19.65 %)AJAX
8552 (14.25 %)ASP.NET
9398 (10.28 %)jQuery
10344 (8.882 %)ASP
11336 (8.675 %)Silverlight
12200 (5.164 %)DHTML
13159 (4.105 %)XSLT
14135 (3.486 %)Web Services
15118 (3.047 %)LAMP
16113 (2.918 %)JSP
1783 (2.143 %)Spring
1870 (1.807 %)XSL
1963 (1.627 %)DOM
2056 (1.446 %)J2EE
England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1382 (9.863 %)CMS
2198 (5.112 %)Apache
383 (2.143 %)IIS
472 (1.859 %)Drupal
567 (1.730 %)ColdFusion
651 (1.317 %)SharePoint
747 (1.214 %)Joomla!
841 (1.059 %)Tomcat
936 (0.930 %)WordPress
1032 (0.826 %)EPiServer
1124 (0.620 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1214 (0.361 %)Umbraco
1312 (0.310 %)Flash Media Server
1312 (0.310 %)TYPO3
1410 (0.258 %)Magento
157 (0.181 %)Jetty
157 (0.181 %)WebLogic
157 (0.181 %)ExpressionEngine
165 (0.129 %)TeamSite
165 (0.129 %)Content Management Server
England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11492 (38.52 %)Photoshop
2921 (23.78 %)Adobe Illustrator
3317 (8.185 %)Fireworks
486 (2.221 %)MS Excel
545 (1.162 %)InDesign
643 (1.110 %)3ds Max
737 (0.955 %)MS Visio
829 (0.749 %)MS Office
927 (0.697 %)Acrobat
1019 (0.491 %)QuarkXPress
1118 (0.465 %)ZBrush
1217 (0.439 %)Adobe After Effects
1217 (0.439 %)Maya
1313 (0.336 %)ImageReady
149 (0.232 %)MS Project
158 (0.207 %)MS PowerPoint
166 (0.155 %)Adobe Premiere
166 (0.155 %)Paint Shop Pro
166 (0.155 %)FreeHand
175 (0.129 %)Shockwave
England IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
173 (1.885 %)Google Analytics
213 (0.336 %)WebTrends
34 (0.103 %)Summit
England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1452 (11.67 %)Internet
250 (1.291 %)Intranet
332 (0.826 %)HTTP
426 (0.671 %)FTP
515 (0.387 %)DNS
610 (0.258 %)LAN
78 (0.207 %)SMTP
87 (0.181 %)WAN
96 (0.155 %)Firewall
105 (0.129 %)TCP/IP
105 (0.129 %)SSL
114 (0.103 %)Extranet
123 (0.077 %)DVB
132 (0.052 %)VPN
132 (0.052 %)SSH
141 (0.026 %)AMQP
141 (0.026 %)Wi-Fi
141 (0.026 %)IPsec
141 (0.026 %)Ethernet
141 (0.026 %)Broadband
England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1595 (15.36 %)MySQL
2418 (10.79 %)SQL Server
371 (1.833 %)SQL Server 2005
428 (0.723 %)SQL Server 2008
526 (0.671 %)MS Access
625 (0.645 %)SQL Server 2000
715 (0.387 %)SQL Server Integration Services
810 (0.258 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
810 (0.258 %)Datawarehouse
95 (0.129 %)PostgreSQL
95 (0.129 %)Oracle 8/8i
104 (0.103 %)RDBMS
104 (0.103 %)Firebird
104 (0.103 %)DTS
104 (0.103 %)Crystal Reports
113 (0.077 %)Informix
113 (0.077 %)DB2
113 (0.077 %)Data Mining
113 (0.077 %)BusinessObjects
113 (0.077 %)BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1459 (11.85 %)Dreamweaver
2182 (4.699 %)Subversion
3132 (3.408 %)Visual Studio
453 (1.368 %)Flex Builder
548 (1.239 %)Eclipse
637 (0.955 %)Flash Builder
731 (0.800 %)Maven
731 (0.800 %)NUnit
828 (0.723 %)Ant
926 (0.671 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1022 (0.568 %)Expression Blend
1121 (0.542 %)Mercurial
1219 (0.491 %)Selenium
1318 (0.465 %)Git (software)
1417 (0.439 %)WATIR
159 (0.232 %)JIRA
168 (0.207 %)TestNG
168 (0.207 %)JUnit
177 (0.181 %)JSUnit
177 (0.181 %)Expression Studio
England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1566 (14.61 %)Marketing
2408 (10.53 %)Games
3293 (7.565 %)Finance
4241 (6.223 %)Animation
5213 (5.500 %)Advertising
6195 (5.035 %)Multimedia
7187 (4.828 %)Graphic Design
8125 (3.227 %)Banking
9112 (2.892 %)Online Games
1095 (2.453 %)Education
1193 (2.401 %)Retail
1282 (2.117 %)Pensions
1376 (1.962 %)Publishing
1376 (1.962 %)Flash Games
1468 (1.756 %)Social Media
1563 (1.627 %)Health
1653 (1.368 %)Interactive Media
1749 (1.265 %)Front Office
1843 (1.110 %)Music
1938 (0.981 %)3D Graphics
England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12365 (61.06 %)Developer
21113 (28.74 %)Designer
3802 (20.71 %)Web Developer
4750 (19.36 %)Flash Developer
5650 (16.78 %)Web Designer
6306 (7.901 %)Senior Developer
7267 (6.894 %)PHP Developer
8256 (6.610 %)Front-End Developer
9231 (5.964 %)ActionScript Developer
10197 (5.086 %).NET Developer
11150 (3.873 %)Architect
12130 (3.357 %)Photoshop Designer
13126 (3.253 %)C# Developer
14125 (3.227 %)Graphic Designer
15123 (3.176 %)Senior Designer
16108 (2.789 %)Flash Designer
17102 (2.634 %)Front-End Web Developer
1898 (2.530 %)ASP.NET Developer
1991 (2.350 %)Senior Web Developer
2083 (2.143 %)Flex Developer
England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1305 (7.875 %)W3C
2256 (6.610 %)RIA
3129 (3.331 %)Social Network
3129 (3.331 %)Computer Science
498 (2.530 %)Open Source
591 (2.350 %)Web 2.0
690 (2.324 %)iPhone
772 (1.859 %)E-Learning
844 (1.136 %)Client/Server
935 (0.904 %)Streaming Media
1033 (0.852 %)Mathematics
1130 (0.775 %)Learning Management System
1228 (0.723 %)French Language
1326 (0.671 %)SCORM
1423 (0.594 %)Blog
1521 (0.542 %)SaaS
1620 (0.516 %)Blackberry
1716 (0.413 %)N-Tier
1716 (0.413 %)Streaming Video
1716 (0.413 %)Physics
England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1273 (7.049 %)Linux
2125 (3.227 %)Windows
390 (2.324 %)UNIX
427 (0.697 %)Android
517 (0.439 %)Mac OS X
615 (0.387 %)Windows Server 2003
714 (0.361 %)Windows Mobile
812 (0.310 %)Red Hat Linux
910 (0.258 %)Ubuntu
108 (0.207 %)Solaris
116 (0.155 %)Debian
116 (0.155 %)Windows Server 2008
124 (0.103 %)Windows XP
133 (0.077 %)Windows 2000 Server
142 (0.052 %)Fedora
142 (0.052 %)Windows Vista
142 (0.052 %)Mac OS
151 (0.026 %)Windows 7
151 (0.026 %)Mac OS X Server
151 (0.026 %)CentOS
England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1545 (14.07 %)Web Development
2447 (11.54 %)OO
3425 (10.97 %)E-Commerce
4382 (9.863 %)SEO
5368 (9.502 %)Web Design
6300 (7.746 %)OOP
7224 (5.784 %)Content Management
8175 (4.518 %)Project Management
9171 (4.415 %)Agile Software Development
10161 (4.157 %)MVC
11140 (3.615 %)Workflow
1298 (2.530 %)Online Marketing
1396 (2.479 %)Pay per click
1486 (2.221 %)B2B
1585 (2.195 %)Scrum
1673 (1.885 %)Digital Marketing
1769 (1.782 %)OOD
1857 (1.472 %)Information Architecture
1951 (1.317 %)Web Analytics
2049 (1.265 %)Web Accessibility
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11825 (47.12 %)JavaScript
21668 (43.07 %)ActionScript
31056 (27.27 %)PHP
4853 (22.02 %)ActionScript 3.0
5568 (14.67 %)SQL
6510 (13.17 %)ActionScript 2.0
7464 (11.98 %)C#
8358 (9.243 %)Java
9119 (3.073 %)C
10117 (3.021 %)PHP5
1194 (2.427 %)C++
1290 (2.324 %)VB.NET
1388 (2.272 %)Perl
1467 (1.730 %)Ruby
1550 (1.291 %)VBScript
1647 (1.214 %)T-SQL
1745 (1.162 %)VB
1745 (1.162 %)Python
1822 (0.568 %)PHP4
1921 (0.542 %)Objective-C
England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1328 (8.469 %)Degree
212 (0.310 %)Security Cleared
212 (0.310 %)HND
311 (0.284 %)PRINCE2 Certification
45 (0.129 %)ISEB
54 (0.103 %)Microsoft Certification
63 (0.077 %)MCP
72 (0.052 %)MCPD
81 (0.026 %)SC Cleared
81 (0.026 %)MCSA
81 (0.026 %)MOS
81 (0.026 %)MCTS
81 (0.026 %)CIPD
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1125 (3.227 %)QA
225 (0.645 %)WAI
316 (0.413 %)SLA
414 (0.361 %)WCAG
England IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (0.103 %)Active Directory
England IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.077 %)Plesk
England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1780 (20.14 %)Adobe
2311 (8.030 %)Microsoft
3113 (2.918 %)Google
464 (1.652 %)Macromedia
560 (1.549 %)Oracle
638 (0.981 %)Zend
730 (0.775 %)DoubleClick
829 (0.749 %)Quark
926 (0.671 %)Apple
1021 (0.542 %)Yahoo!
1021 (0.542 %)Sitecore
1115 (0.387 %)Symbian
1213 (0.336 %)Interwoven
1312 (0.310 %)Red Hat
149 (0.232 %)Perforce
158 (0.207 %)Coremetrics
167 (0.181 %)BT
167 (0.181 %)SAP
175 (0.129 %)Vignette
175 (0.129 %)Salesforce.com