Adobe Contracts in England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Adobe products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Adobe over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Adobe Systems, Inc.

Adobe UK / England
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	219	211	170
Rank change year-on-year	-8	-41
Contract jobs citing Adobe	483	598	732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.14%	1.21%	1.43%
As % of the Vendors category	2.59%	2.72%	3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted	299	393	413
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£225	£210	£163
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£336	£375	£299
% change year-on-year	-10.33%	+25.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted	10	15	34
Median hourly rate	£18.75	£17.50	£17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+7.14%	+2.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.90	£10.40	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.60	£45.46	£37.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£18.25	£17.50	£13.34
% change year-on-year	+4.28%	+31.23%

Adobe is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	18654	21963	22858
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	43.93%	44.48%	44.79%
Number of daily rates quoted	11423	13783	13673
Median daily rate	£427	£409	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.40%	+2.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£260	£250	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£363
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted	624	727	1041
Median hourly rate	£17.50	£19.00	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-7.89%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.15	£11.00	£11.17
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.33	£41.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.50	£18.47
% change year-on-year	-14.63%	+11.02%

Adobe
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Adobe as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Vendors category.

Adobe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Adobe in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Adobe in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Adobe in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Adobe in England

Adobe
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Adobe in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Adobe in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Adobe in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe within the England region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-32	316	£450	+12.50%	80
South East	+36	62	£373	-0.66%	25
North West	+23	25	£250	-28.57%	17
East of England	-11	19	£425	+30.76%	10
Yorkshire	+17	16	£275	-26.66%	14
East Midlands	-1	14	£315	-30.00%	11
South West	+12	13	£325	+18.18%	13
West Midlands	-6	9	£500	+37.93%	18
Midlands	-	3	£375	-	29
North East	+70	2	£350	-	1
Adobe UK

Adobe
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Adobe also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Adobe.

1	426 (39.08%)	HTML
2	386 (35.41%)	CSS
3	331 (30.37%)	JavaScript
4	329 (30.18%)	Adobe Experience Manager
5	328 (30.09%)	Agile Software Development
6	296 (27.16%)	Marketing
7	283 (25.96%)	User Experience
8	216 (19.82%)	Photoshop
9	206 (18.90%)	Adobe Creative Suite
10	205 (18.81%)	Java
11	187 (17.16%)	HTML5
12	178 (16.33%)	Analytics
13	173 (15.87%)	CMS
14	144 (13.21%)	CSS3
15	140 (12.84%)	Front End Development

16	138 (12.66%)	Finance
17	134 (12.29%)	AngularJS
18	128 (11.74%)	E-Commerce
19	115 (10.55%)	Adobe Illustrator
20	114 (10.46%)	Content Management
21	111 (10.18%)	jQuery
22	109 (10.00%)	Google
23	106 (9.72%)	Wireframes
24	99 (9.08%)	SQL
25	97 (8.90%)	Adobe Analytics
26	93 (8.53%)	Scrum
27	92 (8.44%)	Retail
28	90 (8.26%)	XML
29	88 (8.07%)	Microsoft
29	88 (8.07%)	Web Development

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Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	329 (30.18%)	Adobe Experience Manager
2	173 (15.87%)	CMS
3	44 (4.04%)	Confluence
4	40 (3.67%)	Apache
5	32 (2.94%)	WebSphere
6	26 (2.39%)	WordPress
7	23 (2.11%)	JBoss
8	22 (2.02%)	SAS
9	21 (1.93%)	WebLogic
10	20 (1.83%)	SharePoint
11	17 (1.56%)	Tomcat
12	13 (1.19%)	LiveCycle
13	12 (1.10%)	Apache Solr
13	12 (1.10%)	Sitecore CMS
14	10 (0.92%)	Drupal
15	9 (0.83%)	IIS
15	9 (0.83%)	Skype for Business
16	8 (0.73%)	CoreMedia CMS
16	8 (0.73%)	nginx
17	7 (0.64%)	BizTalk Server

Applications
1	216 (19.82%)	Photoshop
2	206 (18.90%)	Adobe Creative Suite
3	115 (10.55%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	62 (5.69%)	Microsoft Office
5	55 (5.05%)	InDesign
6	45 (4.13%)	OmniGraffle
7	42 (3.85%)	InVision
8	39 (3.58%)	MS Visio
9	37 (3.39%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
10	35 (3.21%)	Microsoft Excel
11	29 (2.66%)	Adobe After Effects
12	18 (1.65%)	Adobe Captivate
13	16 (1.47%)	Acrobat
14	13 (1.19%)	CINEMA 4D
15	11 (1.01%)	UXPin
16	9 (0.83%)	Adobe Premiere
17	8 (0.73%)	Microsoft Project
18	7 (0.64%)	FrameMaker
19	4 (0.37%)	SPSS
20	3 (0.28%)	Fireworks

Business Applications
1	48 (4.40%)	Adobe Campaign
2	15 (1.38%)	Unica
3	13 (1.19%)	Dynamics CRM
4	10 (0.92%)	WebTrends
5	7 (0.64%)	Eloqua
6	6 (0.55%)	SAP PSCD
7	4 (0.37%)	Murex MxG2000
7	4 (0.37%)	SAP Oil and Gas
8	3 (0.28%)	Data Workbench
8	3 (0.28%)	Revive Adserver
8	3 (0.28%)	SDL Web 8
8	3 (0.28%)	Staffware
9	2 (0.18%)	Dynamics GP
9	2 (0.18%)	OpenText VIM for SAP
9	2 (0.18%)	SAP Hybris
9	2 (0.18%)	SAP S/4HANA
9	2 (0.18%)	SAP SD
10	1 (0.092%)	SAP CO
10	1 (0.092%)	SAP CRM
10	1 (0.092%)	SAP FI/CO

Cloud Services
1	97 (8.90%)	Adobe Analytics
2	55 (5.05%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
2	55 (5.05%)	Google Analytics
3	26 (2.39%)	Amazon AWS
4	14 (1.28%)	GitHub
4	14 (1.28%)	Google Tag Manager
5	10 (0.92%)	Microsoft Azure
6	9 (0.83%)	Cloud Computing
6	9 (0.83%)	Office 365
6	9 (0.83%)	SaaS
7	8 (0.73%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	6 (0.55%)	G Suite
9	5 (0.46%)	Yammer
10	4 (0.37%)	Amazon CloudWatch
10	4 (0.37%)	Amazon EC2
10	4 (0.37%)	Amazon ElastiCache
10	4 (0.37%)	Amazon SQS
10	4 (0.37%)	AWS Lambda
10	4 (0.37%)	CloudFront
10	4 (0.37%)	Google Drive

Communications & Networking
1	28 (2.57%)	HTTP
2	21 (1.93%)	WebEx
3	20 (1.83%)	Internet
4	19 (1.74%)	SSL
5	17 (1.56%)	DNS
5	17 (1.56%)	TCP/IP
6	10 (0.92%)	Intranet
7	7 (0.64%)	DHCP
7	7 (0.64%)	VoIP
8	6 (0.55%)	LDAP
8	6 (0.55%)	Network Security
8	6 (0.55%)	Skype
8	6 (0.55%)	VPN
9	4 (0.37%)	HTTPS
9	4 (0.37%)	SMS
10	3 (0.28%)	LAN
10	3 (0.28%)	WAN
11	1 (0.092%)	IP Telephony
11	1 (0.092%)	Wi-Fi
11	1 (0.092%)	Wireless

Database & Business Intelligence
1	25 (2.29%)	MongoDB
2	22 (2.02%)	MySQL
3	21 (1.93%)	SQL Server
4	18 (1.65%)	Big Data
5	14 (1.28%)	Hadoop
5	14 (1.28%)	NoSQL
6	13 (1.19%)	BusinessObjects
7	11 (1.01%)	Data Warehouse
7	11 (1.01%)	Relational Database
8	7 (0.64%)	Jackrabbit
9	5 (0.46%)	MS Access
10	4 (0.37%)	Amazon DynamoDB
10	4 (0.37%)	Data Mining
10	4 (0.37%)	HBase
10	4 (0.37%)	KDB
10	4 (0.37%)	PostgreSQL
11	3 (0.28%)	DB2
11	3 (0.28%)	RDBMS
11	3 (0.28%)	SAP HANA
11	3 (0.28%)	SQL Server 2005

Development Applications
1	88 (8.07%)	Axure RP
2	58 (5.32%)	Git (software)
3	57 (5.23%)	JIRA
4	43 (3.94%)	Balsamiq Mockups
5	37 (3.39%)	Maven
6	34 (3.12%)	Grunt
6	34 (3.12%)	Selenium
7	32 (2.94%)	Jasmine
8	31 (2.84%)	Jenkins
9	27 (2.48%)	Karma Test Runner
10	26 (2.39%)	Eclipse
11	25 (2.29%)	Dreamweaver
12	21 (1.93%)	JUnit
13	20 (1.83%)	gulp
14	19 (1.74%)	IntelliJ
15	17 (1.56%)	Subversion
16	14 (1.28%)	Gradle
17	12 (1.10%)	Cucumber
18	10 (0.92%)	Ant
19	8 (0.73%)	TortoiseSVN

General
1	296 (27.16%)	Marketing
2	138 (12.66%)	Finance
3	92 (8.44%)	Retail
4	64 (5.87%)	Banking
5	42 (3.85%)	Publishing
6	39 (3.58%)	Telecoms
7	24 (2.20%)	Advertising
8	16 (1.47%)	Games
9	14 (1.28%)	Legal
10	13 (1.19%)	Pharmaceutical
11	12 (1.10%)	Retail Banking
12	11 (1.01%)	Manufacturing
13	9 (0.83%)	Electronics
14	8 (0.73%)	Automotive
15	7 (0.64%)	Financial Institution
16	5 (0.46%)	Front Office
17	4 (0.37%)	French Language
17	4 (0.37%)	German Language
17	4 (0.37%)	Law
17	4 (0.37%)	Multimedia

Job Titles
1	342 (31.38%)	Developer
2	262 (24.04%)	Designer
3	115 (10.55%)	UI Designer
4	104 (9.54%)	UX Designer
5	87 (7.98%)	Analyst
6	86 (7.89%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7	80 (7.34%)	Architect
8	63 (5.78%)	Java Developer
9	51 (4.68%)	JavaScript Developer
10	47 (4.31%)	UI/UX Designer
11	44 (4.04%)	Consultant
12	42 (3.85%)	Visual Designer
13	41 (3.76%)	UI Developer
14	32 (2.94%)	Solutions Architect
15	30 (2.75%)	Web Designer
16	29 (2.66%)	HTML Developer
17	27 (2.48%)	Senior Developer
17	27 (2.48%)	Web Developer
18	26 (2.39%)	Angular Developer
18	26 (2.39%)	Business Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	426 (39.08%)	HTML
2	386 (35.41%)	CSS
3	187 (17.16%)	HTML5
4	144 (13.21%)	CSS3
5	134 (12.29%)	AngularJS
6	111 (10.18%)	jQuery
7	90 (8.26%)	XML
8	69 (6.33%)	Spring
9	68 (6.24%)	Web Services
10	63 (5.78%)	REST
11	60 (5.50%)	J2EE
12	58 (5.32%)	JSON
13	51 (4.68%)	React
14	43 (3.94%)	Hibernate
15	41 (3.76%)	SOAP
16	40 (3.67%)	Twitter Bootstrap
17	39 (3.58%)	JSP
18	37 (3.39%)	Sass
19	32 (2.94%)	Java EE
19	32 (2.94%)	Servlets

Miscellaneous
1	283 (25.96%)	User Experience
2	74 (6.79%)	Analytical Skills
3	51 (4.68%)	Mobile App
4	46 (4.22%)	Social Media
5	29 (2.66%)	Graphic Design
6	23 (2.11%)	iPad
7	19 (1.74%)	Computer Science
8	18 (1.65%)	Digital Media
9	17 (1.56%)	Management Information System
10	15 (1.38%)	e-Learning
11	14 (1.28%)	Animation
11	14 (1.28%)	FMCG
12	13 (1.19%)	W3C
13	11 (1.01%)	Motion Graphics
14	10 (0.92%)	RIA
15	9 (0.83%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
15	9 (0.83%)	Greenfield Project
16	8 (0.73%)	Enterprise Software
16	8 (0.73%)	Fintech
16	8 (0.73%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	60 (5.50%)	Windows
2	54 (4.95%)	Linux
3	49 (4.50%)	Apple iOS
4	48 (4.40%)	Android
5	43 (3.94%)	Unix
6	22 (2.02%)	Windows 7
7	10 (0.92%)	Windows 10
8	8 (0.73%)	Ubuntu
9	7 (0.64%)	Windows Server
10	6 (0.55%)	Mac OS
10	6 (0.55%)	Windows Server 2008
10	6 (0.55%)	Windows Server 2012
11	4 (0.37%)	Mac OS X
12	3 (0.28%)	AIX
12	3 (0.28%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12	3 (0.28%)	Windows Server 2003
12	3 (0.28%)	zOS
13	2 (0.18%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13	2 (0.18%)	Solaris
13	2 (0.18%)	Windows Phone

Processes & Methodologies
1	328 (30.09%)	Agile Software Development
2	178 (16.33%)	Analytics
3	140 (12.84%)	Front End Development
4	128 (11.74%)	E-Commerce
5	114 (10.46%)	Content Management
6	106 (9.72%)	Wireframes
7	93 (8.53%)	Scrum
8	88 (8.07%)	Web Development
9	84 (7.71%)	Responsive Web Design
10	70 (6.42%)	MVC
11	66 (6.06%)	Digital Marketing
12	62 (5.69%)	Prototyping
13	58 (5.32%)	Project Management
13	58 (5.32%)	Visualisation
14	55 (5.05%)	DevOps
14	55 (5.05%)	Web Design
15	54 (4.95%)	Data Visualisation
16	51 (4.68%)	TDD
17	50 (4.59%)	CRM
17	50 (4.59%)	Web Analytics

Programming Languages
1	331 (30.37%)	JavaScript
2	205 (18.81%)	Java
3	99 (9.08%)	SQL
4	45 (4.13%)	PHP
5	30 (2.75%)	C#
6	27 (2.48%)	Python
7	15 (1.38%)	Perl
8	14 (1.28%)	Scala
9	12 (1.10%)	Ruby
10	11 (1.01%)	ES6
11	10 (0.92%)	Groovy
12	9 (0.83%)	ABAP
13	8 (0.73%)	Haskell
14	7 (0.64%)	C
14	7 (0.64%)	C++
14	7 (0.64%)	Shell Script
15	6 (0.55%)	ActionScript
16	5 (0.46%)	VB
17	3 (0.28%)	PL/SQL
17	3 (0.28%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	79 (7.25%)	Degree
2	17 (1.56%)	Security Cleared
3	14 (1.28%)	Computer Science Degree
4	9 (0.83%)	SC Cleared
5	7 (0.64%)	ISEB
6	6 (0.55%)	Master's Degree
7	5 (0.46%)	BPSS Clearance
7	5 (0.46%)	ISTQB
7	5 (0.46%)	Microsoft Certification
8	4 (0.37%)	MCSE
9	3 (0.28%)	APMG
10	2 (0.18%)	CISA
10	2 (0.18%)	CISM
10	2 (0.18%)	CISSP
10	2 (0.18%)	DBS Check
10	2 (0.18%)	HNC
10	2 (0.18%)	MCTS
10	2 (0.18%)	PRINCE2 Certification
11	1 (0.092%)	HND
11	1 (0.092%)	MCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	20 (1.83%)	QA
2	9 (0.83%)	Data Quality
3	8 (0.73%)	SLA
4	4 (0.37%)	Actionable Recommendations
4	4 (0.37%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	4 (0.37%)	MiFID
5	3 (0.28%)	WCAG
6	2 (0.18%)	FedRAMP
6	2 (0.18%)	PCI DSS
7	1 (0.092%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	1 (0.092%)	PMO
7	1 (0.092%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	35 (3.21%)	Active Directory
2	15 (1.38%)	Docker
3	6 (0.55%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	3 (0.28%)	vSphere
5	2 (0.18%)	Apache Flume
5	2 (0.18%)	HDFS
5	2 (0.18%)	Hyper-V
5	2 (0.18%)	Virtual Desktop
5	2 (0.18%)	Virtual Machines
6	1 (0.092%)	Microsoft App-V
6	1 (0.092%)	Terminal Services
6	1 (0.092%)	vCloud
6	1 (0.092%)	VMware ESXi
6	1 (0.092%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	16 (1.47%)	Puppet
2	12 (1.10%)	Kibana
3	8 (0.73%)	Grafana
4	4 (0.37%)	HP Quality Center
4	4 (0.37%)	Jamf Pro
5	3 (0.28%)	logstash
5	3 (0.28%)	SCCM
5	3 (0.28%)	TeamSite
5	3 (0.28%)	Tivoli
5	3 (0.28%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
6	2 (0.18%)	Failover Clustering
6	2 (0.18%)	SCVMM
6	2 (0.18%)	vMotion
7	1 (0.092%)	Ansible
7	1 (0.092%)	McAfee ePO
7	1 (0.092%)	NetBackup
7	1 (0.092%)	Opscode Chef
7	1 (0.092%)	Rundeck
7	1 (0.092%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
7	1 (0.092%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	109 (10.00%)	Google
2	88 (8.07%)	Microsoft
3	65 (5.96%)	Oracle
4	49 (4.50%)	SAP
5	44 (4.04%)	IBM
6	25 (2.29%)	Salesforce.com
7	20 (1.83%)	Apple
8	19 (1.74%)	Omniture
9	18 (1.65%)	VMware
10	17 (1.56%)	Tableau
11	16 (1.47%)	webMethods
12	14 (1.28%)	Sitecore
13	13 (1.19%)	Symantec
14	11 (1.01%)	HP
14	11 (1.01%)	hybris
15	9 (0.83%)	Atlassian
15	9 (0.83%)	TIBCO
16	8 (0.73%)	ATG
16	8 (0.73%)	Tealium
16	8 (0.73%)	Twitter