The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Apache Flex skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Apache Flex over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 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.

Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank431265225
Rank change year-on-year
Down-166Down-40
Matching permanent IT job ads5691069927
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.469 %0.876 %0.974 %
As % of the Application Development category1.122 %2.184 %2.553 %
Number of salaries quoted488901839
Average salary£47,500£47,500£47,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£31,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£74,500£77,500£77,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£38,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31 %+8.57 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
507084893836309
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.84 %40.11 %38.13 %
Number of salaries quoted450904320731294
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Apache Flex
Demand Trend

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

Apache Flex Demand Trend

Apache Flex
Salary Trend

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

Apache Flex Salary Trend

Apache Flex
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Apache Flex over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Apache Flex Salary Histogram

Apache 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 Apache Flex within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. 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
EnglandDown-141548£47,500-5.00 %
LondonDown-111350£50,000-9.09 %
City of LondonDown-5278£61,250+4.25 %
South EastDown-11767£42,500+14.86 %
North WestDown-235£36,500+21.66 %
BerkshireDown-7323£50,000+42.85 %
South WestDown-3622£33,000-11.40 %
East MidlandsDown-221£25,750-35.62 %
YorkshireDown-1121£38,500-3.75 %
CheshireUp+120£37,250+24.16 %
SurreyDown-2219£43,500+16.00 %
West YorkshireDown-3118£38,500-3.75 %
LeicestershireUp+117£25,750-45.78 %
East of EnglandDown-917£35,750-26.66 %
LeedsDown-2717£40,000-
West MidlandsDown-4414£21,000-41.66 %
BedfordshireUp+212£37,500-31.81 %
LutonNew entry-10£32,000-
WeybridgeDown-59£50,000+11.73 %
StaffordshireDown-79£21,000-50.58 %
SloughDown-138£40,000+6.66 %
Kingston Upon ThamesNew entry-8£38,500-
BuckinghamshireUp+67£33,000-34.00 %
County AntrimUp+27£50,000-
BelfastUp+17£50,000-
SomersetNo change07£32,500+62.50 %
ManchesterDown-47£32,500+14.03 %
Northern IrelandDown-47£50,000-
BristolDown-67£32,000-8.57 %
BathNew entry-7£32,500-

Apache Flex
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Apache 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 Apache Flex.

1719 (62.63 %)Java
2464 (40.42 %)JavaScript
3446 (38.85 %)Flash
4422 (36.76 %)CSS
5406 (35.37 %)HTML
6366 (31.88 %)ActionScript
7347 (30.23 %)XML
8308 (26.83 %)Agile Software Development
9290 (25.26 %)Adobe
10262 (22.82 %)Finance
11249 (21.69 %)HTML5
12246 (21.43 %)Ajax
13242 (21.08 %)OO
14229 (19.95 %)Oracle
15224 (19.51 %)SQL
16216 (18.82 %)Spring
17209 (18.21 %)ActionScript 3.0
18208 (18.12 %)Degree
19191 (16.64 %)Web Services
20185 (16.11 %)PHP
21182 (15.85 %).NET
21182 (15.85 %)Games
22180 (15.68 %)C#
22180 (15.68 %)Apache
23179 (15.59 %)TDD
24177 (15.42 %)Scrum
25173 (15.07 %)MVC
26164 (14.29 %)J2EE
27163 (14.20 %)Banking
28158 (13.76 %)SQL Server

Apache Flex
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Apache 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 Apache Flex. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1446 (38.85 %)Flash
2422 (36.76 %)CSS
3406 (35.37 %)HTML
4347 (30.23 %)XML
5249 (21.69 %)HTML5
6246 (21.43 %)Ajax
7216 (18.82 %)Spring
8191 (16.64 %)Web Services
9182 (15.85 %).NET
10164 (14.29 %)J2EE
11137 (11.93 %)jQuery
12106 (9.233 %)XHTML
12106 (9.233 %)JSON
13102 (8.885 %)JSP
1488 (7.666 %)BlazeDS
1585 (7.404 %)CSS3
1677 (6.707 %)SOAP
1677 (6.707 %)ASP.NET
1776 (6.620 %)Hibernate
1873 (6.359 %)XSLT
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1180 (15.68 %)Apache
2111 (9.669 %)WebLogic
398 (8.537 %)Tomcat
453 (4.617 %)Drupal
549 (4.268 %)Confluence
639 (3.397 %)WordPress
735 (3.049 %)CMS
735 (3.049 %)SharePoint
831 (2.700 %)WebLogic Portal
928 (2.439 %)Alfresco
1027 (2.352 %)Liferay
1027 (2.352 %)Commerce Server
1124 (2.091 %)Apache Solr
1222 (1.916 %)Joomla!
1319 (1.655 %)SharePoint Server
1319 (1.655 %)Movable Type
1418 (1.568 %)LiveCycle
1517 (1.481 %)IIS
1517 (1.481 %)Force.com
1613 (1.132 %)Oracle Coherence
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
190 (7.840 %)Photoshop
235 (3.049 %)MS Visio
321 (1.829 %)Fireworks
420 (1.742 %)MS Office
513 (1.132 %)InDesign
612 (1.045 %)Adobe Illustrator
78 (0.697 %)MS Excel
87 (0.610 %)PrintSoft PReS
87 (0.610 %)DOC1
92 (0.174 %)Maya
92 (0.174 %)3ds Max
101 (0.087 %)Mingle
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
120 (1.742 %)Google Analytics
213 (1.132 %)Oracle CRM
34 (0.348 %)RMDS
34 (0.348 %)BusinessWorks
43 (0.261 %)TIBCO iProcess
52 (0.174 %)Oracle BPM
52 (0.174 %)Tridion
61 (0.087 %)Oracle Applications
61 (0.087 %)WebTrends
61 (0.087 %)SAP HR
61 (0.087 %)Dynamics NAV
61 (0.087 %)Dynamics AX
61 (0.087 %)Dynamics GP
61 (0.087 %)Exstream
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1105 (9.146 %)Internet
253 (4.617 %)HTTP
326 (2.265 %)Intranet
44 (0.348 %)SSL
52 (0.174 %)Extranet
52 (0.174 %)TCP/IP
61 (0.087 %)DNS
61 (0.087 %)DHCP
61 (0.087 %)UMTS
61 (0.087 %)LDAP
61 (0.087 %)Wireless
61 (0.087 %)NFC
61 (0.087 %)LTE
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1158 (13.76 %)SQL Server
2141 (12.28 %)MySQL
348 (4.181 %)RDBMS
432 (2.787 %)DB2
530 (2.613 %)SQL Server 2008
619 (1.655 %)Hadoop
718 (1.568 %)PostgreSQL
718 (1.568 %)Oracle 8/8i
814 (1.220 %)TimesTen
911 (0.958 %)Data Warehouse
1010 (0.871 %)NoSQL
1010 (0.871 %)OLTP
1010 (0.871 %)ETL
119 (0.784 %)Oracle 10g
119 (0.784 %)KDB
128 (0.697 %)SQL Server Integration Services
128 (0.697 %)DTS
136 (0.523 %)Apache Cassandra
136 (0.523 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
144 (0.348 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1148 (12.89 %)Subversion
2146 (12.72 %)Maven
3118 (10.28 %)Selenium
479 (6.882 %)JIRA
572 (6.272 %)Eclipse
656 (4.878 %)Ant
754 (4.704 %)Cucumber
849 (4.268 %)Flash Builder
947 (4.094 %)Hudson
1046 (4.007 %)FishEye
1046 (4.007 %)RSpec
1142 (3.659 %)Visual Studio
1234 (2.962 %)FitNesse
1234 (2.962 %)FlexUnit
1332 (2.787 %)ClearCase
1426 (2.265 %)JUnit
1522 (1.916 %)Git (software)
1621 (1.829 %)Dreamweaver
1720 (1.742 %)Team Foundation Server
1819 (1.655 %)Concordion
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1262 (22.82 %)Finance
2182 (15.85 %)Games
3163 (14.20 %)Banking
495 (8.275 %)Investment Banking
572 (6.272 %)Marketing
659 (5.139 %)Telecoms
740 (3.484 %)Advertising
835 (3.049 %)Multimedia
931 (2.700 %)Retail
1030 (2.613 %)Publishing
1128 (2.439 %)Front Office
1212 (1.045 %)Automotive
139 (0.784 %)Back Office
146 (0.523 %)Financial Institution
154 (0.348 %)Billing
154 (0.348 %)French Language
154 (0.348 %)German Language
154 (0.348 %)Interactive Media
163 (0.261 %)Law
163 (0.261 %)Manufacturing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1756 (65.85 %)Developer
2213 (18.55 %)Java Developer
3185 (16.11 %)Flex Developer
4111 (9.669 %)Architect
5105 (9.146 %)Web Developer
6104 (9.059 %)Senior Developer
776 (6.620 %)Flash Developer
859 (5.139 %)PHP Developer
954 (4.704 %)Analyst
1047 (4.094 %)Front-End Developer
1145 (3.920 %)Tester
1244 (3.833 %).NET Developer
1244 (3.833 %)Senior Java Developer
1339 (3.397 %)ActionScript Developer
1434 (2.962 %)QA Analyst
1531 (2.700 %)Senior Flex Developer
1630 (2.613 %)Applications Developer
1727 (2.352 %)Mobile Developer
1727 (2.352 %)Consultant
1825 (2.178 %)Technical Architect
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
191 (7.927 %)Social Media
287 (7.578 %)Online Games
384 (7.317 %)Computer Science
481 (7.056 %)RIA
553 (4.617 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
652 (4.530 %)Blackberry
746 (4.007 %)Client/Server
844 (3.833 %)Open Source
942 (3.659 %)iPhone
1037 (3.223 %)SaaS
1134 (2.962 %)Mathematics
1233 (2.875 %)iPad
1326 (2.265 %)Derivative
1418 (1.568 %)PaaS
1418 (1.568 %)Cloud Computing
1418 (1.568 %)New Media
1517 (1.481 %)Animation
1517 (1.481 %)Social Network
1615 (1.307 %)Flash Games
1714 (1.220 %)Hedge funds
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1146 (12.72 %)Linux
2124 (10.80 %)Android
394 (8.188 %)UNIX
394 (8.188 %)Apple iOS
442 (3.659 %)Windows
519 (1.655 %)webOS
616 (1.394 %)Windows Phone 7
711 (0.958 %)Oracle Linux
810 (0.871 %)Mac OS X
95 (0.436 %)Solaris
104 (0.348 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
104 (0.348 %)Windows Server 2008
112 (0.174 %)AIX
121 (0.087 %)Windows Server 2003
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1308 (26.83 %)Agile Software Development
2242 (21.08 %)OO
3179 (15.59 %)TDD
4177 (15.42 %)Scrum
5173 (15.07 %)MVC
6108 (9.408 %)UML
786 (7.491 %)Web Development
877 (6.707 %)Automated Testing
877 (6.707 %)Unit Testing
975 (6.533 %)BDD
1074 (6.446 %)Continuous Integration
1172 (6.272 %)E-Commerce
1270 (6.098 %)OOP
1366 (5.749 %)Project Management
1366 (5.749 %)Content Management
1450 (4.355 %)SEO
1549 (4.268 %)Workflow
1646 (4.007 %)Test Automation
1745 (3.920 %)SOA
1839 (3.397 %)System Testing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1719 (62.63 %)Java
2464 (40.42 %)JavaScript
3366 (31.88 %)ActionScript
4224 (19.51 %)SQL
5209 (18.21 %)ActionScript 3.0
6185 (16.11 %)PHP
7180 (15.68 %)C#
868 (5.923 %)C++
966 (5.749 %)Objective-C
1047 (4.094 %)Python
1146 (4.007 %)Bash shell
1235 (3.049 %)PHP5
1331 (2.700 %)PL/SQL
1331 (2.700 %)ActionScript 2.0
1425 (2.178 %)VB.NET
1520 (1.742 %)XQuery
1618 (1.568 %)Perl
1715 (1.307 %)Ruby
1814 (1.220 %)C
1913 (1.132 %)PHP4
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1208 (18.12 %)Degree
232 (2.787 %)ISEB
319 (1.655 %)Security Cleared
416 (1.394 %)Microsoft Certification
512 (1.045 %)SC Cleared
69 (0.784 %)MCTS
78 (0.697 %)MCP
78 (0.697 %)MCAD
78 (0.697 %)MCSD
85 (0.436 %)ISTQB
94 (0.348 %)NVQ Level 3
103 (0.261 %)PhD
103 (0.261 %)Sun Certification
112 (0.174 %)SCJP
112 (0.174 %)SCJD
112 (0.174 %)SCJA
121 (0.087 %)Postgraduate
121 (0.087 %)RHCE
121 (0.087 %)EnCE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1120 (10.45 %)QA
211 (0.958 %)WCAG
34 (0.348 %)ISO/IEC 27001
34 (0.348 %)ISO 9001
41 (0.087 %)SLA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
17 (0.610 %)Active Directory
22 (0.174 %)VMware Infrastructure
22 (0.174 %)vSphere
22 (0.174 %)VMware ESXi
22 (0.174 %)vCloud
31 (0.087 %)Veritas Cluster Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (0.436 %)HP Quality Center
21 (0.087 %)Foglight
21 (0.087 %)Control-M
21 (0.087 %)Puppet
21 (0.087 %)Tivoli Endpoint Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1290 (25.26 %)Adobe
2229 (19.95 %)Oracle
392 (8.014 %)JBoss
392 (8.014 %)Microsoft
486 (7.491 %)Google
546 (4.007 %)Atlassian
631 (2.700 %)Vignette
728 (2.439 %)ATG
827 (2.352 %)Zend
923 (2.003 %)IBM
923 (2.003 %)hybris
1021 (1.829 %)SAP
1021 (1.829 %)Facebook
1120 (1.742 %)Sybase
1219 (1.655 %)Symbian
1219 (1.655 %)Omniture
1219 (1.655 %)Sitecore
1318 (1.568 %)DoubleClick
1417 (1.481 %)Salesforce.com
1417 (1.481 %)Perforce