Flash Contract Job Trends in England

Adobe Flash
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Flash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 454 529
Rank change year-on-year -95 +75 +123
Contract jobs citing Flash 36 21 27
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.095% 0.086% 0.072%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% 0.38% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 10
10th Percentile £318 £511 £396
25th Percentile £382 £525 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £556 £520
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +6.97% -3.26%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £683
90th Percentile £600 £688 £775
UK median daily rate £425 £556 £525
% change year-on-year -23.60% +5.95% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £44.52 - -
25th Percentile £68.75 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £32.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Flash falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,910 5,507 7,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.86% 22.52% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,296 3,799 5,406
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -1.47% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 88 170
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.21
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.97
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +34.47% -26.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.80 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +30.30% -26.21%

Flash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Flash relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Flash job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Flash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Flash

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flash in England over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Flash in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Flash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Flash

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Flash in England over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Flash 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 Flash within the England region over the 6 months to 30 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Midlands - 18 £394 - 2
West Midlands - 18 £394 - 1
London -47 7 £550 - 2
East of England - 6 - - 3
North of England - 3 £564 - 4
South West -43 2 £505 -9.21% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £564 - 2
North West - 1 - - 2
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) GCP
2 2 (5.56%) GitHub
2 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.78%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) VSAN
2 3 (8.33%) SAN
3 2 (5.56%) DNS
3 2 (5.56%) NAS
4 1 (2.78%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Electronics
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Aerospace
5 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Law
7 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Analyst
1 19 (52.78%) Storage Analyst
2 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Consultant
3 3 (8.33%) Design Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Digital Design Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Migration Consultant
3 3 (8.33%) Storage Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Lead
4 2 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (2.78%) QA Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (5.56%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 20 (55.56%) Replication
2 19 (52.78%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (13.89%) FPGA
3 5 (13.89%) VHDL
4 2 (5.56%) Blockchain
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) Clustering
4 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 20 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Agile
2 16 (44.44%) Ticket Management
3 6 (16.67%) Migration
4 5 (13.89%) AI
4 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.89%) Signal Processing
5 4 (11.11%) Validation
6 3 (8.33%) High Availability
6 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (8.33%) Process Improvement
6 3 (8.33%) Sensor Fusion
6 3 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (5.56%) Application Security
7 2 (5.56%) CI/CD
7 2 (5.56%) Containerisation
7 2 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (5.56%) DevSecOps
7 2 (5.56%) Federated Learning
7 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (5.56%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) C
2 5 (13.89%) C++
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
3 2 (5.56%) Rust
3 2 (5.56%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) CCSK
4 2 (5.56%) CEH
4 2 (5.56%) CISA
4 2 (5.56%) CISM
4 2 (5.56%) CISSP
4 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) OSCP
4 2 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.78%) CCNA
5 1 (2.78%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
1 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.56%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 21 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (52.78%) GPFS
2 19 (52.78%) NFS
3 18 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (50.00%) vSphere
4 4 (11.11%) VMware NSX
5 3 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (44.44%) vRealize
2 4 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 4 (11.11%) VxRail
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Argo
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Avamar
4 1 (2.78%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (2.78%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 22 (61.11%) VMware
2 20 (55.56%) IBM
3 19 (52.78%) Oracle
3 19 (52.78%) ServiceNow
4 16 (44.44%) Cisco
5 6 (16.67%) Pure Storage
6 2 (5.56%) Brocade
6 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.56%) Splunk
7 1 (2.78%) Commvault
7 1 (2.78%) EMC
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.78%) NetApp
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