Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Flash skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Flash over the 3 months to 17 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 for the West Midlands region.

 Adobe Flash
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank408097
Rank change year-on-year
Up+40Up+17
Matching permanent IT job ads142106156
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands3.983 %2.271 %1.801 %
As % of the Application Development category11.56 %5.509 %5.708 %
Salaries quoted12488124
Average salary£23,000£27,500£27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.36 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,000£20,300£21,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£36,900£43,500£35,000
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£28,000
% change year-on-year
-+7.140 %
West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
122819242733
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands34.45 %41.23 %31.55 %
Salaries quoted107415902419
Average salary£32,500£32,500£32,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£24,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£45,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Flash EnglandFlash
England

Flash
Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Flash Demand Trend

Flash
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Flash Salary Trend

Flash
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Flash across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
BirminghamUp+2843£22,500-11.76 %
WarwickshireUp+2432£30,000+22.44 %
HerefordshireUp+2823£37,500-6.25 %
CoventryDown-513£22,500-12.62 %
StaffordshireUp+1711£21,500+7.50 %
ShropshireUp+103£21,500+7.50 %
WorcestershireDown-12£36,000+9.09 %
WalsallUp+71£20,000-25.92 %
Flash EnglandFlash
England

Flash
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1158 (52.84 %)CSS
2139 (46.49 %)ActionScript
3138 (46.15 %)HTML
4127 (42.47 %)JavaScript
4127 (42.47 %)Photoshop
576 (25.42 %)PHP
664 (21.40 %)XHTML
763 (21.07 %).NET
861 (20.40 %)ActionScript 3.0
957 (19.06 %)Adobe Illustrator
1055 (18.39 %)MySQL
1055 (18.39 %)ASP.NET
1153 (17.73 %)Games
1250 (16.72 %)AJAX
1345 (15.05 %)Web Design
1345 (15.05 %)ASP
1345 (15.05 %)Dreamweaver
1444 (14.72 %)Adobe Flex
1543 (14.38 %)ActionScript 2.0
1641 (13.71 %)Fireworks
1740 (13.38 %)XML
1839 (13.04 %)Adobe
1936 (12.04 %)Marketing
2033 (11.04 %)Advertising
2131 (10.37 %)SEO
2229 (9.699 %)SQL
2327 (9.030 %)Graphic Design
2425 (8.361 %)3D Graphics
2524 (8.027 %)C#
2623 (7.692 %)OOP

Flash
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1158 (52.84 %)CSS
2138 (46.15 %)HTML
364 (21.40 %)XHTML
463 (21.07 %).NET
555 (18.39 %)ASP.NET
650 (16.72 %)AJAX
745 (15.05 %)ASP
844 (14.72 %)Adobe Flex
940 (13.38 %)XML
1023 (7.692 %)jQuery
1116 (5.351 %)Silverlight
1210 (3.344 %)XSLT
137 (2.341 %)DOM
137 (2.341 %)DHTML
144 (1.338 %)RSS
144 (1.338 %)LAMP
153 (1.003 %)CakePHP
162 (0.669 %).NET Framework
171 (0.334 %)WinForms
171 (0.334 %)ADO.NET
West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
122 (7.358 %)CMS
211 (3.679 %)Apache
39 (3.010 %)IIS
46 (2.007 %)Joomla!
54 (1.338 %)WordPress
54 (1.338 %)SharePoint
63 (1.003 %)Drupal
71 (0.334 %)Tomcat
71 (0.334 %)Moodle
West Midlands IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1127 (42.47 %)Photoshop
257 (19.06 %)Adobe Illustrator
341 (13.71 %)Fireworks
422 (7.358 %)3ds Max
518 (6.020 %)ZBrush
63 (1.003 %)InDesign
63 (1.003 %)Acrobat
72 (0.669 %)Adobe After Effects
81 (0.334 %)MS Visio
West Midlands IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
114 (4.682 %)Internet
23 (1.003 %)Intranet
32 (0.669 %)TCP/IP
41 (0.334 %)SSH
41 (0.334 %)FTP
41 (0.334 %)HTTP
West Midlands IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
155 (18.39 %)MySQL
217 (5.686 %)SQL Server
34 (1.338 %)Firebird
41 (0.334 %)GIS
West Midlands IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
145 (15.05 %)Dreamweaver
214 (4.682 %)Visual Studio
35 (1.672 %)InterDev
44 (1.338 %)Flex Builder
44 (1.338 %)Subversion
West Midlands IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
153 (17.73 %)Games
236 (12.04 %)Marketing
333 (11.04 %)Advertising
427 (9.030 %)Graphic Design
525 (8.361 %)3D Graphics
619 (6.355 %)Pensions
717 (5.686 %)Animation
814 (4.682 %)Multimedia
94 (1.338 %)Education
103 (1.003 %)Finance
103 (1.003 %)Publishing
103 (1.003 %)Online Games
112 (0.669 %)Retail
112 (0.669 %)Health
112 (0.669 %)Manufacturing
121 (0.334 %)Government
121 (0.334 %)Insurance
West Midlands IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1197 (65.89 %)Developer
290 (30.10 %)Designer
383 (27.76 %)Flash Developer
458 (19.40 %)Web Developer
537 (12.37 %)Graphic Designer
631 (10.37 %)Web Designer
726 (8.696 %).NET Developer
824 (8.027 %)PHP Developer
920 (6.689 %)Flash Designer
1017 (5.686 %).NET Web Developer
1116 (5.351 %)Web Manager
1215 (5.017 %)Development Manager
1215 (5.017 %)Photoshop Designer
1314 (4.682 %)Animator
1314 (4.682 %)Senior Developer
1411 (3.679 %)Flex Developer
1510 (3.344 %)Graphic Artist
1510 (3.344 %)ASP.NET Developer
169 (3.010 %)Front-End Developer
178 (2.676 %)UI Designer
West Midlands IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
116 (5.351 %)iPhone
215 (5.017 %)Open Source
314 (4.682 %)W3C
46 (2.007 %)Client/Server
46 (2.007 %)Streaming Video
55 (1.672 %)E-Learning
64 (1.338 %)Blog
64 (1.338 %)Bulgarian Language
64 (1.338 %)French Language
64 (1.338 %)German Language
64 (1.338 %)Russian Language
64 (1.338 %)Serbian Language
73 (1.003 %)VLE
73 (1.003 %)Web 2.0
82 (0.669 %)Visualisation
82 (0.669 %)SCORM
91 (0.334 %)Copywriting
91 (0.334 %)Psychology
West Midlands IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
114 (4.682 %)Linux
25 (1.672 %)UNIX
33 (1.003 %)Windows
41 (0.334 %)SUSE
41 (0.334 %)Fedora
41 (0.334 %)Windows Server 2003
41 (0.334 %)Red Hat Linux
West Midlands IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
145 (15.05 %)Web Design
231 (10.37 %)SEO
323 (7.692 %)OOP
422 (7.358 %)Web Development
518 (6.020 %)Project Management
616 (5.351 %)Content Management
714 (4.682 %)E-Commerce
810 (3.344 %)3D Modelling
99 (3.010 %)OO
108 (2.676 %)Web Accessibility
117 (2.341 %)Data Entry
117 (2.341 %)Performance Management
126 (2.007 %)Digital Marketing
126 (2.007 %)MVC
134 (1.338 %)Agile Software Development
143 (1.003 %)Enterprise Architecture
152 (0.669 %)Online Marketing
152 (0.669 %)Time Management
152 (0.669 %)OOA/OOD
152 (0.669 %)CRM
West Midlands IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1139 (46.49 %)ActionScript
2127 (42.47 %)JavaScript
376 (25.42 %)PHP
461 (20.40 %)ActionScript 3.0
543 (14.38 %)ActionScript 2.0
629 (9.699 %)SQL
724 (8.027 %)C#
822 (7.358 %)Java
917 (5.686 %)C++
1013 (4.348 %)VB.NET
117 (2.341 %)C
123 (1.003 %)Perl
123 (1.003 %)Bash shell
132 (0.669 %)VB6
132 (0.669 %)VBScript
132 (0.669 %)VB
141 (0.334 %)PHP5
West Midlands IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
119 (6.355 %)Degree
21 (0.334 %)CIPD
West Midlands IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (2.341 %)SLA
West Midlands IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (1.003 %)Plesk
West Midlands IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
139 (13.04 %)Adobe
216 (5.351 %)Macromedia
314 (4.682 %)Microsoft
44 (1.338 %)Zend
52 (0.669 %)RedDot
61 (0.334 %)Red Hat
61 (0.334 %)Quark
61 (0.334 %)Autodesk