Oxfordshire Flash Jobs

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

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bordon Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brecon Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carshalton Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Droitwich Dudley Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Longfield Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Melton Mowbray Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neston Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Oxted Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochford Romsey Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Studley Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Teddington Telford Thame Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge 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 Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	92	109
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching permanent IT job ads	53	36
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	21.54 %	11.29 %
Salaries quoted	50	33
Average minimum salary	£30,190	£32,152
Average salary	£32,760	£34,697
% change on same period last year	-5.58 %
Average maximum salary	£35,330	£37,242
UK excluding London average salary	£29,935	£28,972
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Development Applications Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	246	319
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.130 %	0.131 %
Salaries quoted	233	251
Average minimum salary	£32,488	£29,984
Average salary	£35,923	£32,420
% change on same period last year	+10.80 %
Average maximum salary	£39,359	£34,857
UK excluding London average salary	£34,829	£35,862
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
Flash South East

Flash
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Flash across the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Flash
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Flash across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Flash
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Flash within the Oxfordshire 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	+14	32	£34,063	-9.63 %
Abingdon	-5	2	£27,750	-7.50 %
Henley-on-Thames	+4	2	£25,000	-28.57 %
Bicester	-	1	£30,000	-
Thame	-6	1	£41,500	-

Flash South East

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 62 (50.41 %) HTML 2 58 (47.15 %) Games 3 56 (45.53 %) JavaScript 4 55 (44.72 %) ActionScript 5 52 (42.28 %) Photoshop 5 52 (42.28 %) CSS 6 45 (36.59 %) .NET 6 45 (36.59 %) ASP.NET 7 44 (35.77 %) SQL 8 38 (30.89 %) C# 9 37 (30.08 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 35 (28.46 %) XHTML 10 35 (28.46 %) XML 11 30 (24.39 %) Marketing 12 25 (20.33 %) AJAX

13 24 (19.51 %) PHP 14 23 (18.70 %) Web Development 15 21 (17.07 %) ASP 16 20 (16.26 %) Dreamweaver 17 17 (13.82 %) Content Management 18 16 (13.01 %) DOM 18 16 (13.01 %) XSLT 19 15 (12.20 %) C++ 20 14 (11.38 %) Pensions 20 14 (11.38 %) W3C 21 13 (10.57 %) SQL Server 21 13 (10.57 %) Email Marketing 21 13 (10.57 %) Retail 22 12 (9.756 %) Adobe 23 10 (8.130 %) OO

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 62 (50.41 %) HTML 2 52 (42.28 %) CSS 3 45 (36.59 %) .NET 3 45 (36.59 %) ASP.NET 4 35 (28.46 %) XML 4 35 (28.46 %) XHTML 5 25 (20.33 %) AJAX 6 21 (17.07 %) ASP 7 16 (13.01 %) DOM 7 16 (13.01 %) XSLT 8 6 (4.878 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 4 (3.252 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 3 (2.439 %) Adobe Flex 11 2 (1.626 %) Django 11 2 (1.626 %) Ruby on Rails 11 2 (1.626 %) SOAP 12 1 (0.813 %) DirectX 12 1 (0.813 %) LAMP 12 1 (0.813 %) .NET Framework 12 1 (0.813 %) jQuery	Application Platforms 1 9 (7.317 %) IIS 2 4 (3.252 %) SharePoint 2 4 (3.252 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (1.626 %) CMS 4 1 (0.813 %) Apache
Applications 1 52 (42.28 %) Photoshop 2 37 (30.08 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 6 (4.878 %) Fireworks 4 3 (2.439 %) 3ds Max 5 2 (1.626 %) MS Visio 6 1 (0.813 %) Maya 6 1 (0.813 %) CA Clarity	Communications & Networking 1 5 (4.065 %) Internet 2 4 (3.252 %) Extranet 2 4 (3.252 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (10.57 %) SQL Server 2 4 (3.252 %) MySQL 3 1 (0.813 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (0.813 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (0.813 %) GIS 3 1 (0.813 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 20 (16.26 %) Dreamweaver 2 4 (3.252 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.813 %) Subversion
General 1 58 (47.15 %) Games 2 30 (24.39 %) Marketing 3 14 (11.38 %) Pensions 4 13 (10.57 %) Retail 5 6 (4.878 %) Multimedia 5 6 (4.878 %) Interactive Media 6 5 (4.065 %) Flash Games 6 5 (4.065 %) Online Games 6 5 (4.065 %) Back Office 6 5 (4.065 %) Animation 7 4 (3.252 %) FMCG 8 3 (2.439 %) Advertising 9 1 (0.813 %) 3D Graphics 9 1 (0.813 %) Graphic Design 9 1 (0.813 %) Education 9 1 (0.813 %) Government 9 1 (0.813 %) Health 9 1 (0.813 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 89 (72.36 %) Developer 2 53 (43.09 %) Web Developer 3 31 (25.20 %) Flash Developer 4 21 (17.07 %) Web Designer 5 17 (13.82 %) ActionScript Developer 6 15 (12.20 %) .NET Web Developer 6 15 (12.20 %) .NET Developer 6 15 (12.20 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 13 (10.57 %) C# Developer 7 13 (10.57 %) C# Web Developer 7 13 (10.57 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 12 (9.756 %) Photoshop Designer 9 6 (4.878 %) Flash Designer 9 6 (4.878 %) Architect 9 6 (4.878 %) Programmer 9 6 (4.878 %) Games Developer 10 5 (4.065 %) Senior Developer 10 5 (4.065 %) ASP Developer 10 5 (4.065 %) Flash Games Developer 11 4 (3.252 %) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous 1 14 (11.38 %) W3C 2 10 (8.130 %) Spanish Language 3 2 (1.626 %) Statistics 3 2 (1.626 %) Multithreading 4 1 (0.813 %) Photography 4 1 (0.813 %) Mathematics 4 1 (0.813 %) Podcast 4 1 (0.813 %) Flash Lite 4 1 (0.813 %) BBC 4 1 (0.813 %) E-Learning 4 1 (0.813 %) SCORM	Operating Systems 1 5 (4.065 %) Windows 2 3 (2.439 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (18.70 %) Web Development 2 17 (13.82 %) Content Management 3 13 (10.57 %) Email Marketing 4 10 (8.130 %) OO 5 6 (4.878 %) OOD 6 5 (4.065 %) Software Engineering 7 4 (3.252 %) Digital Marketing 8 3 (2.439 %) OOP 8 3 (2.439 %) Technical Architecture 8 3 (2.439 %) Web Design 9 2 (1.626 %) SEO 9 2 (1.626 %) Interactive Advertising 10 1 (0.813 %) Internet Marketing 10 1 (0.813 %) Unit Testing 10 1 (0.813 %) Data Modelling 10 1 (0.813 %) Agile Software Development 10 1 (0.813 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 56 (45.53 %) JavaScript 2 55 (44.72 %) ActionScript 3 44 (35.77 %) SQL 4 38 (30.89 %) C# 5 24 (19.51 %) PHP 6 15 (12.20 %) C++ 7 8 (6.504 %) C 8 6 (4.878 %) PHP5 9 5 (4.065 %) VBScript 9 5 (4.065 %) Java 10 4 (3.252 %) DHTML 10 4 (3.252 %) Transact-SQL 10 4 (3.252 %) VB.NET 11 2 (1.626 %) Python 11 2 (1.626 %) Ruby 12 1 (0.813 %) PHP4 12 1 (0.813 %) VB 12 1 (0.813 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 2 (1.626 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (7.317 %) QA
Vendors 1 12 (9.756 %) Adobe 2 9 (7.317 %) Quark 3 2 (1.626 %) Macromedia 4 1 (0.813 %) ESRI 4 1 (0.813 %) Zend 4 1 (0.813 %) Oracle