The first table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe Flash
Rank 163 135 133
Rank change year-on-year
-28 -2
Permanent jobs citing Flash 78 114 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 1.098% 1.608% 1.566%
As % of the Application Development category 2.232% 3.276% 3.481%
Number of salaries quoted 65 101 100
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £21,300 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £32,500 £31,000
% change year-on-year
-4.61% +4.83%
All Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3495 3480 3045
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 49.18% 49.09% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3115 3151 2796
Average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Flash
England

Flash
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Flash across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West Flash Jobs Demand Trend

Flash
Salary Trend

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

North West Flash Salary Trend

Flash
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Flash across the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -3 58 £30,000 -7.69%
Cheshire -37 13 £28,500 -5.00%
Merseyside +27 7 £40,000 +8.10%
Lancashire +1 1 £35,000 +75.00%
Flash
England

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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.

1 139 (79.43%) CSS
2 123 (70.29%) HTML
3 110 (62.86%) JavaScript
4 78 (44.57%) jQuery
5 77 (44.00%) HTML5
6 65 (37.14%) Photoshop
7 64 (36.57%) ActionScript
8 53 (30.29%) Dreamweaver
9 50 (28.57%) Adobe
10 47 (26.86%) XHTML
11 45 (25.71%) ActionScript 3.0
12 44 (25.14%) PHP
13 42 (24.00%) Adobe Illustrator
14 36 (20.57%) Web Design
14 36 (20.57%) Web Services
14 36 (20.57%) CSS3
15 35 (20.00%) C#
16 33 (18.86%) Java
17 32 (18.29%) Ajax
18 31 (17.71%) .NET
19 29 (16.57%) XML
19 29 (16.57%) Android
19 29 (16.57%) Mobile App
20 28 (16.00%) Fireworks
21 27 (15.43%) OO
22 26 (14.86%) Internet
22 26 (14.86%) Digital Media
23 24 (13.71%) MySQL
23 24 (13.71%) Degree
24 23 (13.14%) MVC

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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
1 139 (79.43%) CSS
2 123 (70.29%) HTML
3 78 (44.57%) jQuery
4 77 (44.00%) HTML5
5 47 (26.86%) XHTML
6 36 (20.57%) Web Services
6 36 (20.57%) CSS3
7 32 (18.29%) Ajax
8 31 (17.71%) .NET
9 29 (16.57%) XML
10 17 (9.714%) ASP.NET
11 15 (8.571%) JSON
12 14 (8.000%) Qt
13 9 (5.143%) Symfony
13 9 (5.143%) OpenGL
13 9 (5.143%) JSP
13 9 (5.143%) Servlets
14 7 (4.000%) SOAP
14 7 (4.000%) XSLT
14 7 (4.000%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 16 (9.143%) CMS
2 8 (4.571%) Apache
3 6 (3.429%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.429%) Jetty
3 6 (3.429%) WordPress
3 6 (3.429%) Magento
4 4 (2.286%) Drupal
5 3 (1.714%) GlassFish
5 3 (1.714%) DotNetNuke
5 3 (1.714%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (1.143%) Zen Cart
6 2 (1.143%) Sitefinity
6 2 (1.143%) IIS
7 1 (0.571%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.571%) Moodle
Applications
1 65 (37.14%) Photoshop
2 42 (24.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 28 (16.00%) Fireworks
4 14 (8.000%) MS Office
5 5 (2.857%) MS Excel
6 4 (2.286%) MS Visio
6 4 (2.286%) MS Project
7 3 (1.714%) ZBrush
7 3 (1.714%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.571%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.571%) Maya
8 1 (0.571%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.571%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 3 (1.714%) Bond Adapt
2 2 (1.143%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.571%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.86%) Internet
2 7 (4.000%) VoIP
3 5 (2.857%) WLAN
3 5 (2.857%) DVB
3 5 (2.857%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (2.857%) NFC
3 5 (2.857%) Bluetooth
3 5 (2.857%) GPRS
3 5 (2.857%) GSM
3 5 (2.857%) UMTS
4 2 (1.143%) SNMP
4 2 (1.143%) VPN
4 2 (1.143%) DNS
4 2 (1.143%) SSL
4 2 (1.143%) Intranet
4 2 (1.143%) Firewall
4 2 (1.143%) Extranet
5 1 (0.571%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.71%) MySQL
2 8 (4.571%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.286%) Oracle 9i
3 4 (2.286%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.286%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.286%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 53 (30.29%) Dreamweaver
2 12 (6.857%) Subversion
3 8 (4.571%) PhoneGap
4 6 (3.429%) Maven
4 6 (3.429%) JIRA
4 6 (3.429%) Log4j
4 6 (3.429%) Ant
4 6 (3.429%) JUnit
5 5 (2.857%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.143%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.143%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.143%) NetBeans
7 1 (0.571%) Git (software)
General
1 22 (12.57%) Marketing
2 16 (9.143%) Games
3 13 (7.429%) Multimedia
4 6 (3.429%) Advertising
5 5 (2.857%) Electronics
5 5 (2.857%) Finance
5 5 (2.857%) Retail
6 4 (2.286%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.286%) French Language
6 4 (2.286%) German Language
7 2 (1.143%) Music
8 1 (0.571%) Music Industry
8 1 (0.571%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 84 (48.00%) Developer
2 54 (30.86%) Designer
3 48 (27.43%) Web Designer
4 30 (17.14%) Web Developer
5 18 (10.29%) Mobile Developer
6 15 (8.571%) Software Developer
7 12 (6.857%) Applications Developer
8 9 (5.143%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.143%) Front-End Developer
9 8 (4.571%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 7 (4.000%) Web Manager
10 7 (4.000%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.000%) Team Leader
10 7 (4.000%) PHP Developer
10 7 (4.000%) Web Applications Developer
11 5 (2.857%) E-Learning Developer
11 5 (2.857%) .NET Developer
11 5 (2.857%) Architect
11 5 (2.857%) Photoshop Designer
12 4 (2.286%) ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.57%) Mobile App
2 26 (14.86%) Digital Media
3 12 (6.857%) Social Media
4 11 (6.286%) E-Learning
5 9 (5.143%) Blackberry
6 7 (4.000%) New Media
7 6 (3.429%) Open Source
7 6 (3.429%) Graphic Design
7 6 (3.429%) iPhone
7 6 (3.429%) SCORM
8 5 (2.857%) Speech Recognition
8 5 (2.857%) Device Driver
8 5 (2.857%) MPEG
9 4 (2.286%) Replication
10 3 (1.714%) MHEG
10 3 (1.714%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.714%) Streaming Video
10 3 (1.714%) Mathematics
10 3 (1.714%) Physics
10 3 (1.714%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.57%) Android
2 22 (12.57%) Windows
3 21 (12.00%) Apple iOS
4 14 (8.000%) Windows Phone
5 13 (7.429%) Linux
6 8 (4.571%) Solaris
6 8 (4.571%) UNIX
7 6 (3.429%) Windows Mobile
8 5 (2.857%) Nucleus RTOS
8 5 (2.857%) Windows 7
8 5 (2.857%) Windows Phone 7
8 5 (2.857%) Windows 8
8 5 (2.857%) Windows Phone 8
9 3 (1.714%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (20.57%) Web Design
2 27 (15.43%) OO
3 23 (13.14%) MVC
4 20 (11.43%) E-Commerce
5 17 (9.714%) SEO
6 16 (9.143%) Mobile Application Development
7 14 (8.000%) Software Testing
8 13 (7.429%) OOP
9 11 (6.286%) Agile Software Development
9 11 (6.286%) TDD
10 10 (5.714%) High Availability
11 9 (5.143%) Web Development
12 8 (4.571%) Scrum
13 6 (3.429%) Internet Marketing
13 6 (3.429%) RAD
13 6 (3.429%) CRM
13 6 (3.429%) Web Usability
13 6 (3.429%) Unit Testing
14 5 (2.857%) Quality Management
14 5 (2.857%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 110 (62.86%) JavaScript
2 64 (36.57%) ActionScript
3 45 (25.71%) ActionScript 3.0
4 44 (25.14%) PHP
5 35 (20.00%) C#
6 33 (18.86%) Java
7 22 (12.57%) C++
8 18 (10.29%) SQL
9 14 (8.000%) ActionScript 2.0
10 10 (5.714%) Ruby
11 8 (4.571%) C
11 8 (4.571%) Objective-C
12 6 (3.429%) PHP5
13 5 (2.857%) Python
14 3 (1.714%) Groovy
14 3 (1.714%) VB
15 2 (1.143%) Bash shell
15 2 (1.143%) Perl
16 1 (0.571%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (13.71%) Degree
2 4 (2.286%) OCP
2 4 (2.286%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (1.143%) MCTS
3 2 (1.143%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.571%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.286%) SLA
2 1 (0.571%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.286%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (2.286%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (2.286%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 50 (28.57%) Adobe
2 9 (5.143%) Symbian
3 8 (4.571%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.000%) Zend
5 6 (3.429%) Oracle
6 5 (2.857%) Facebook
7 4 (2.286%) MEDITECH
7 4 (2.286%) Google
7 4 (2.286%) Sun
7 4 (2.286%) Nokia
7 4 (2.286%) Veritas
8 3 (1.714%) Apple
8 3 (1.714%) Sencha
8 3 (1.714%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.714%) Twitter
9 1 (0.571%) Autodesk
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