North West Flash Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries 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 Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carshalton Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleveland Cobham Corby County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Grimsby Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Llanelli London Longfield Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neston Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Oxted Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Ringwood Rochford Romsey Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Teddington Telford Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	145
Rank change on same period last year	+59
Matching permanent IT job ads	231	148
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.128 %	0.062 %
As % of the category below	21.27 %	16.91 %
Salaries quoted	198	134
Average minimum salary	£24,203	£23,243
Average salary	£26,905	£25,426
% change on same period last year	+5.81 %
Average maximum salary	£29,608	£27,610
UK excluding London average salary	£30,367	£29,009
% change on same period last year	+4.68 %
Development Applications North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	1086	875
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.601 %	0.367 %
Salaries quoted	911	754
Average minimum salary	£28,948	£30,387
Average salary	£31,981	£33,696
% change on same period last year	-5.08 %
Average maximum salary	£35,014	£37,004
UK excluding London average salary	£35,110	£35,983
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Flash England

Flash
Demand Trend

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

Flash
Salary Trend

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

Flash
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Flash across the North West region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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 North West 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+72	155	£27,735	+5.74 %
Cheshire	+6	63	£26,291	+7.60 %
Lancashire	+8	27	£25,113	+6.86 %
Merseyside	+25	18	£27,300	-9.00 %
Cumbria	-8	2	£19,750	-28.18 %

Flash England

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 276 (66.99 %) CSS 2 234 (56.80 %) HTML 3 176 (42.72 %) Photoshop 4 174 (42.23 %) JavaScript 5 150 (36.41 %) ActionScript 6 137 (33.25 %) .NET 7 131 (31.80 %) PHP 8 113 (27.43 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 110 (26.70 %) Dreamweaver 10 106 (25.73 %) Adobe 11 99 (24.03 %) XHTML 12 95 (23.06 %) XML 13 93 (22.57 %) ASP.NET 14 77 (18.69 %) Web Design 15 70 (16.99 %) MySQL

16 58 (14.08 %) SQL 17 57 (13.83 %) SQL Server 18 55 (13.35 %) AJAX 19 54 (13.11 %) Web Development 19 54 (13.11 %) Internet 19 54 (13.11 %) SEO 20 52 (12.62 %) Marketing 21 50 (12.14 %) OO 22 46 (11.17 %) E-Commerce 22 46 (11.17 %) C# 22 46 (11.17 %) Advertising 23 45 (10.92 %) Fireworks 24 42 (10.19 %) Degree 25 40 (9.709 %) ASP 26 39 (9.466 %) Intranet

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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.

Application Development 1 276 (66.99 %) CSS 2 234 (56.80 %) HTML 3 137 (33.25 %) .NET 4 99 (24.03 %) XHTML 5 95 (23.06 %) XML 6 93 (22.57 %) ASP.NET 7 55 (13.35 %) AJAX 8 40 (9.709 %) ASP 9 33 (8.010 %) WebServices 10 26 (6.311 %) Adobe Flex 11 17 (4.126 %) Silverlight 12 14 (3.398 %) LAMP 13 13 (3.155 %) XSLT 14 10 (2.427 %) JSP 15 9 (2.184 %) WPF 16 4 (0.971 %) WinForms 16 4 (0.971 %) ActiveX 17 3 (0.728 %) .NET Framework 18 2 (0.485 %) XSL 18 2 (0.485 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 23 (5.583 %) Apache 2 21 (5.097 %) CMS 3 18 (4.369 %) IIS 4 4 (0.971 %) ColdFusion 4 4 (0.971 %) Flash Media Server 5 2 (0.485 %) SharePoint 6 1 (0.243 %) Community Server
Applications 1 176 (42.72 %) Photoshop 2 113 (27.43 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 45 (10.92 %) Fireworks 4 10 (2.427 %) MS Excel 5 9 (2.184 %) Adobe Director 6 7 (1.699 %) Acrobat 7 6 (1.456 %) ImageReady 8 5 (1.214 %) Shockwave 9 4 (0.971 %) MS Office 9 4 (0.971 %) FreeHand 9 4 (0.971 %) FrameMaker 10 3 (0.728 %) InDesign 11 2 (0.485 %) QuarkXPress 12 1 (0.243 %) MS Visio 12 1 (0.243 %) MS PowerPoint 12 1 (0.243 %) LightWave 3D 12 1 (0.243 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 1 (0.243 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 54 (13.11 %) Internet 2 39 (9.466 %) Intranet 3 10 (2.427 %) SMTP 4 2 (0.485 %) SMS 4 2 (0.485 %) WEP 5 1 (0.243 %) NFC 5 1 (0.243 %) DVB 5 1 (0.243 %) Wi-Fi 5 1 (0.243 %) UMTS 5 1 (0.243 %) VoIP 5 1 (0.243 %) WLAN 5 1 (0.243 %) Bluetooth 5 1 (0.243 %) GPRS 5 1 (0.243 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 70 (16.99 %) MySQL 2 57 (13.83 %) SQL Server 3 20 (4.854 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (1.214 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (0.485 %) DB2 6 1 (0.243 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 110 (26.70 %) Dreamweaver 2 24 (5.825 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.243 %) Synon 3 1 (0.243 %) Subversion	General 1 52 (12.62 %) Marketing 2 46 (11.17 %) Advertising 3 27 (6.553 %) Graphic Design 4 22 (5.340 %) Multimedia 5 19 (4.612 %) Pensions 6 15 (3.641 %) Games 6 15 (3.641 %) Finance 7 10 (2.427 %) Education 8 7 (1.699 %) Insurance 8 7 (1.699 %) Flash Games 9 6 (1.456 %) Animation 10 5 (1.214 %) Banking 11 4 (0.971 %) Government 12 3 (0.728 %) 3D Graphics 12 3 (0.728 %) Online Games 13 2 (0.485 %) Local Government 13 2 (0.485 %) Retail 14 1 (0.243 %) Publishing 14 1 (0.243 %) Health 14 1 (0.243 %) Interactive Media
Job Titles 1 255 (61.89 %) Developer 2 137 (33.25 %) Web Developer 3 98 (23.79 %) Web Designer 4 77 (18.69 %) Flash Developer 5 40 (9.709 %) PHP Developer 6 34 (8.252 %) Photoshop Designer 7 26 (6.311 %) .NET Developer 8 21 (5.097 %) .NET Web Developer 8 21 (5.097 %) Software Developer 9 19 (4.612 %) Graphic Designer 9 19 (4.612 %) PHP Web Developer 10 17 (4.126 %) Senior Developer 11 15 (3.641 %) C# Developer 12 14 (3.398 %) ActionScript Developer 13 13 (3.155 %) Senior Web Designer 14 12 (2.913 %) C# Web Developer 15 11 (2.670 %) Senior Flash Developer 15 11 (2.670 %) Programmer 15 11 (2.670 %) Junior 16 10 (2.427 %) Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 33 (8.010 %) W3C 2 14 (3.398 %) E-Learning 3 8 (1.942 %) Web 2.0 4 6 (1.456 %) Streaming Video 5 5 (1.214 %) BBC 6 4 (0.971 %) VLE 6 4 (0.971 %) iDTV 7 3 (0.728 %) Tandem 7 3 (0.728 %) Streaming Media 7 3 (0.728 %) Semantic Web 8 2 (0.485 %) IPTV 8 2 (0.485 %) PDA 8 2 (0.485 %) IVR 9 1 (0.243 %) Device Driver 9 1 (0.243 %) MPEG 9 1 (0.243 %) Management Information System 9 1 (0.243 %) Photography 9 1 (0.243 %) Computer Science 9 1 (0.243 %) RIA 9 1 (0.243 %) Speech Recognition
Operating Systems 1 34 (8.252 %) Linux 2 17 (4.126 %) Windows 3 5 (1.214 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.243 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (0.243 %) Nucleus RTOS 4 1 (0.243 %) UNIX 4 1 (0.243 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 77 (18.69 %) Web Design 2 54 (13.11 %) Web Development 2 54 (13.11 %) SEO 3 50 (12.14 %) OO 4 46 (11.17 %) E-Commerce 5 22 (5.340 %) OOP 5 22 (5.340 %) Content Management 6 18 (4.369 %) Search Engine Marketing 7 16 (3.883 %) Pay per click 8 13 (3.155 %) OOD 9 7 (1.699 %) Internet Marketing 10 5 (1.214 %) Digital Marketing 10 5 (1.214 %) Validation 11 4 (0.971 %) B2B 11 4 (0.971 %) CRM 12 3 (0.728 %) E-business 12 3 (0.728 %) Project Management 12 3 (0.728 %) Time Management 13 2 (0.485 %) Unit Testing 13 2 (0.485 %) Release Management
Programming Languages 1 174 (42.23 %) JavaScript 2 150 (36.41 %) ActionScript 3 131 (31.80 %) PHP 4 58 (14.08 %) SQL 5 46 (11.17 %) C# 6 31 (7.524 %) DHTML 7 30 (7.282 %) Java 8 27 (6.553 %) VB.NET 9 19 (4.612 %) PHP5 10 13 (3.155 %) VBScript 11 11 (2.670 %) Perl 12 10 (2.427 %) PHP4 13 5 (1.214 %) VB 13 5 (1.214 %) VB6 14 3 (0.728 %) XAML 14 3 (0.728 %) C++ 15 2 (0.485 %) C 16 1 (0.243 %) XPath 16 1 (0.243 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 42 (10.19 %) Degree 2 4 (0.971 %) HND 3 1 (0.243 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.485 %) ISO9001 1 2 (0.485 %) TickIT	Vendors 1 106 (25.73 %) Adobe 2 26 (6.311 %) Microsoft 3 13 (3.155 %) Oracle 4 12 (2.913 %) Quark 5 8 (1.942 %) Macromedia 6 4 (0.971 %) Sony 6 4 (0.971 %) IBM 7 3 (0.728 %) Google 8 2 (0.485 %) MKS 8 2 (0.485 %) Yahoo! 9 1 (0.243 %) Symbian