Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Adobe Flex skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Adobe Flex 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.

LinkAdobe Flex
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank243272509
Rank change year-on-year
Up+29Up+237
Matching permanent IT job ads697530552
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.811 %0.625 %0.270 %
As % of the Application Development category2.225 %1.797 %0.837 %
Salaries quoted625483478
Average salary£45,000£40,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50 %+6.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£60,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£36,250£34,500
% change year-on-year
+3.440 %+5.070 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
313272948765977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK36.46 %34.77 %32.33 %
Salaries quoted272762516156137
Average salary£38,000£36,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.550 %-4.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£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 %

Adobe Flex
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Adobe Flex within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Adobe Flex Demand Trend

Adobe Flex
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Adobe Flex within the UK.

Adobe Flex Salary Trend

Adobe Flex
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Adobe Flex over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

Adobe Flex Salary Histogram

Adobe Flex
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe Flex within the UK 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
EnglandUp+23666£45,000+12.50 %
LondonUp+24455£57,500+27.77 %
City of LondonDown-21126£48,750-15.21 %
South EastDown-3577£40,000+6.66 %
North WestUp+1941£37,500+13.63 %
ManchesterUp+3036£37,500-11.76 %
SurreyUp+1731£37,500+2.73 %
ScotlandUp+2830£40,000+60.00 %
East of EnglandUp+527£41,250+3.12 %
EdinburghUp+524£37,500-3.22 %
West MidlandsUp+4423£36,000+75.60 %
MiddlesexDown-115£45,000+28.57 %
East MidlandsUp+1612£26,000-25.71 %
CambridgeshireUp+712£37,500-28.57 %
CambridgeUp+411£37,500-28.57 %
BerkshireUp+111£37,500-6.25 %
GlasgowNew entry-11£40,000-
North EastUp+2510£37,500-
EssexUp+2310£44,500+9.87 %
LeicestershireUp+1910£26,000-25.71 %
HarlowNew entry-10£44,500-
South WestDown-29£28,500-28.75 %
Tyne and WearUp+178£46,250+23.33 %
KentUp+28£35,000-
Newcastle Upon TyneDown-27£52,500+40.00 %
CoventryNew entry-7£37,000-
Thames DittonNew entry-7£30,000-
HampshireUp+236£40,000+6.66 %
LeicesterUp+106£24,250-30.71 %
East SussexUp+46£40,000+6.66 %

Adobe Flex
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Adobe Flex 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 Adobe Flex.

1827 (55.02 %)Flash
2693 (46.11 %)ActionScript
3549 (36.53 %)Java
4481 (32.00 %)Adobe
5453 (30.14 %)JavaScript
6451 (30.01 %)CSS
7427 (28.41 %)ActionScript 3.0
8385 (25.62 %)Finance
9367 (24.42 %)HTML
10324 (21.56 %)OO
11312 (20.76 %)XML
12309 (20.56 %)AJAX
13294 (19.56 %)Internet
14284 (18.90 %)Banking
15265 (17.63 %)RIA
15265 (17.63 %).NET
16247 (16.43 %)Degree
17245 (16.30 %)Silverlight
18243 (16.17 %)C#
19233 (15.50 %)SQL
20229 (15.24 %)PHP
21223 (14.84 %)Adobe Illustrator
22202 (13.44 %)Agile Software Development
23195 (12.97 %)Photoshop
24184 (12.24 %)Microsoft
25163 (10.84 %)MVC
26159 (10.58 %)MySQL
26159 (10.58 %)ActionScript 2.0
27151 (10.05 %)XHTML
28144 (9.581 %)E-Commerce

Adobe Flex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Adobe Flex 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 Adobe Flex. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1827 (55.02 %)Flash
2451 (30.01 %)CSS
3367 (24.42 %)HTML
4312 (20.76 %)XML
5309 (20.56 %)AJAX
6265 (17.63 %).NET
7245 (16.30 %)Silverlight
8151 (10.05 %)XHTML
9142 (9.448 %)J2EE
10123 (8.184 %)ASP.NET
11120 (7.984 %)Spring
12114 (7.585 %)jQuery
1397 (6.454 %)Hibernate
1488 (5.855 %)JSP
1586 (5.722 %)Web Services
1661 (4.059 %)LAMP
1757 (3.792 %)Struts
1856 (3.726 %)Servlets
1949 (3.260 %)PureMVC
2040 (2.661 %).NET Framework
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
167 (4.458 %)Apache
255 (3.659 %)WebLogic
351 (3.393 %)Tomcat
446 (3.061 %)CMS
526 (1.730 %)ColdFusion
613 (0.865 %)ESB
712 (0.798 %)EPiServer
811 (0.732 %)IIS
910 (0.665 %)GlassFish
106 (0.399 %)Oracle Spatial
106 (0.399 %)WebSphere Application Server
106 (0.399 %)SharePoint
115 (0.333 %)NetWeaver
115 (0.333 %)Force.com
124 (0.266 %)nginx
124 (0.266 %)Drupal
133 (0.200 %)Sonic ESB
133 (0.200 %)TeamSite
142 (0.133 %)Commerce Server
142 (0.133 %)WebLogic Portal
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1223 (14.84 %)Adobe Illustrator
2195 (12.97 %)Photoshop
333 (2.196 %)Fireworks
421 (1.397 %)MS Excel
57 (0.466 %)MS Visio
64 (0.266 %)Maya
73 (0.200 %)MS Office
82 (0.133 %)Adobe Director
82 (0.133 %)MATLAB
82 (0.133 %)InDesign
82 (0.133 %)DOC1
82 (0.133 %)PrintSoft PReS
82 (0.133 %)FastStats
91 (0.067 %)CA Clarity
91 (0.067 %)Shockwave
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (0.333 %)SAP FI
15 (0.333 %)SAP FI/CO
15 (0.333 %)SAP CO
22 (0.133 %)WebTrends
22 (0.133 %)Google Analytics
31 (0.067 %)Dynamics CRM
31 (0.067 %)GoldMine
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1294 (19.56 %)Internet
232 (2.129 %)HTTP
321 (1.397 %)SAN
415 (0.998 %)Intranet
512 (0.798 %)TCP/IP
68 (0.532 %)DNS
77 (0.466 %)LAN
77 (0.466 %)WAN
84 (0.266 %)Broadband
84 (0.266 %)VoIP
84 (0.266 %)SNMP
93 (0.200 %)Asterisk PBX
93 (0.200 %)Firewall
102 (0.133 %)Intrusion Detection
102 (0.133 %)DVB
102 (0.133 %)VPN
111 (0.067 %)AMQP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1159 (10.58 %)MySQL
2110 (7.319 %)SQL Server
356 (3.726 %)RDBMS
423 (1.530 %)DB2
518 (1.198 %)PostgreSQL
617 (1.131 %)MS Access
714 (0.931 %)Sybase IQ
812 (0.798 %)DB2 UDB
911 (0.732 %)Datawarehouse
911 (0.732 %)Oracle 10g
911 (0.732 %)BusinessObjects
1010 (0.665 %)GIS
1010 (0.665 %)Oracle Reports
1010 (0.665 %)BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
119 (0.599 %)SQL Server 2005
119 (0.599 %)Oracle 9i
128 (0.532 %)ETL
128 (0.532 %)Xcelsius
134 (0.266 %)SQL Server 2008
134 (0.266 %)Firebird
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
199 (6.587 %)Subversion
262 (4.125 %)Flex Builder
348 (3.194 %)FlexUnit
348 (3.194 %)Dreamweaver
442 (2.794 %)Eclipse
541 (2.728 %)JUnit
634 (2.262 %)Flash Builder
732 (2.129 %)Maven
816 (1.065 %)Visual Studio
913 (0.865 %)Ant
913 (0.865 %)Git (software)
913 (0.865 %)Selenium
109 (0.599 %)Mercurial
118 (0.532 %)TestNG
118 (0.532 %)NUnit
118 (0.532 %)JIRA
127 (0.466 %)Oracle Forms
135 (0.333 %)Expression Blend
144 (0.266 %)ClearCase
144 (0.266 %)QuickTest Pro
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1385 (25.62 %)Finance
2284 (18.90 %)Banking
3123 (8.184 %)Front Office
4111 (7.385 %)Investment Banking
585 (5.655 %)Games
658 (3.859 %)Animation
753 (3.526 %)Multimedia
849 (3.260 %)Pensions
948 (3.194 %)Health
1045 (2.994 %)Education
1139 (2.595 %)Advertising
1235 (2.329 %)Marketing
1328 (1.863 %)Government
1423 (1.530 %)Online Games
1522 (1.464 %)Graphic Design
1522 (1.464 %)Telecoms
1621 (1.397 %)Retail
1720 (1.331 %)Back Office
1720 (1.331 %)Music
1819 (1.264 %)Flash Games
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11026 (68.26 %)Developer
2289 (19.23 %)Flash Developer
3241 (16.03 %)Java Developer
4224 (14.90 %)Web Developer
5166 (11.04 %)Flex Developer
6156 (10.38 %)Senior Developer
7140 (9.315 %)Architect
8121 (8.051 %)Designer
966 (4.391 %)ActionScript Developer
1060 (3.992 %).NET Developer
1153 (3.526 %)Front-End Developer
1252 (3.460 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1349 (3.260 %)PHP Developer
1448 (3.194 %)J2EE Developer
1546 (3.061 %)Senior Flash Developer
1643 (2.861 %)Senior Java Developer
1737 (2.462 %)Java Web Developer
1737 (2.462 %)Project Manager
1834 (2.262 %)Lead Designer
1932 (2.129 %)Web Designer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1265 (17.63 %)RIA
2116 (7.718 %)Computer Science
361 (4.059 %)Mathematics
460 (3.992 %)W3C
549 (3.260 %)Fixed Income
646 (3.061 %)Open Source
744 (2.927 %)iPhone
843 (2.861 %)Client/Server
936 (2.395 %)Streaming Media
1035 (2.329 %)N-Tier
1035 (2.329 %)Multithreading
1127 (1.796 %)Web 2.0
1222 (1.464 %)Equities
1319 (1.264 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1418 (1.198 %)Blackberry
1418 (1.198 %)Physics
1517 (1.131 %)French Language
1616 (1.065 %)Social Network
1715 (0.998 %)Learning Management System
1813 (0.865 %)Data Protection Act
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1143 (9.514 %)Linux
266 (4.391 %)UNIX
348 (3.194 %)Windows
47 (0.466 %)AIX
47 (0.466 %)Solaris
47 (0.466 %)Ubuntu
56 (0.399 %)Windows Server 2003
65 (0.333 %)Android
74 (0.266 %)Red Hat Linux
83 (0.200 %)CentOS
83 (0.200 %)Fedora
91 (0.067 %)Windows Server 2008
91 (0.067 %)Mac OS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1324 (21.56 %)OO
2202 (13.44 %)Agile Software Development
3163 (10.84 %)MVC
4144 (9.581 %)E-Commerce
5143 (9.514 %)OOP
6137 (9.115 %)Web Development
7131 (8.716 %)Workflow
899 (6.587 %)Scrum
974 (4.923 %)TDD
1053 (3.526 %)Project Management
1148 (3.194 %)Software Engineering
1237 (2.462 %)OOD
1336 (2.395 %)Unit Testing
1432 (2.129 %)Continuous Integration
1531 (2.063 %)Web Design
1629 (1.929 %)UML
1725 (1.663 %)Content Management
1824 (1.597 %)SEO
1922 (1.464 %)SOA
2018 (1.198 %)Business Analysis
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1693 (46.11 %)ActionScript
2549 (36.53 %)Java
3453 (30.14 %)JavaScript
4427 (28.41 %)ActionScript 3.0
5243 (16.17 %)C#
6233 (15.50 %)SQL
7229 (15.24 %)PHP
8159 (10.58 %)ActionScript 2.0
9130 (8.649 %)C++
1060 (3.992 %)C
1146 (3.061 %)Perl
1244 (2.927 %)Python
1244 (2.927 %)PHP5
1338 (2.528 %)Ruby
1420 (1.331 %)PL/SQL
1518 (1.198 %)Objective-C
1611 (0.732 %)T-SQL
179 (0.599 %)PHP4
188 (0.532 %)Bash shell
196 (0.399 %)Groovy
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1247 (16.43 %)Degree
29 (0.599 %)PhD
37 (0.466 %)Security Cleared
43 (0.200 %)RHCE
43 (0.200 %)SC Cleared
52 (0.133 %)CISSP
52 (0.133 %)Microsoft Certification
61 (0.067 %)MCP
61 (0.067 %)MCSE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
154 (3.593 %)QA
26 (0.399 %)WAI
32 (0.133 %)PCI DSS
32 (0.133 %)ISO27001
41 (0.067 %)WCAG
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
19 (0.599 %)Oracle RAC
26 (0.399 %)Veritas Cluster Server
34 (0.266 %)Active Directory
43 (0.200 %)VMware Infrastructure
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.200 %)Nagios
13 (0.200 %)Backup Exec
13 (0.200 %)Oracle Statspack
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1481 (32.00 %)Adobe
2184 (12.24 %)Microsoft
3115 (7.651 %)Oracle
459 (3.925 %)Sybase
535 (2.329 %)JBoss
629 (1.929 %)Macromedia
715 (0.998 %)Zend
812 (0.798 %)Perforce
911 (0.732 %)Business Objects
911 (0.732 %)Vignette
1010 (0.665 %)SAP
119 (0.599 %)Veritas
126 (0.399 %)Google
126 (0.399 %)TIBCO
135 (0.333 %)Cisco
135 (0.333 %)Salesforce.com
135 (0.333 %)DoubleClick
144 (0.266 %)Red Hat
144 (0.266 %)Misys
144 (0.266 %)Temenos