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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 476 533
Rank change year-on-year -51 +57 +142
Contract jobs citing Flash 31 13 23
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.094% 0.049% 0.061%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.42% 0.22% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 9
10th Percentile £299 £496 £423
25th Percentile £334 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -30.09% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £438 £600 £725
90th Percentile £582 £713 £775
UK median daily rate £402 £550 £537
% change year-on-year -26.91% +2.37% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £17.24
25th Percentile £68.75 - £17.41
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £22.14
75th Percentile £77.50 - £28.52
90th Percentile - - £31.66
UK median hourly rate £72.50 - £22.14
% change year-on-year - - -43.23%

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 7,296 5,937 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.09% 22.34% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,887 3,773 5,640
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 77 183
10th Percentile £34.60 £26.25 £25.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.80 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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

Flash
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

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Flash in England

Flash
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

Flash
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 January 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 - 20 £394 - 4
West Midlands - 19 £398 - 2
East of England - 7 - - 6
London -27 2 £620 +12.73% 10
Yorkshire - 2 £564 -
North of England - 2 £564 -
East Midlands - 1 £360 - 2
Flash
UK

Flash
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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (61.29%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub
3 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) VSAN
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Electronics
3 4 (12.90%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Aerospace
5 2 (6.45%) Law
5 2 (6.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Analyst
1 15 (48.39%) Storage Analyst
2 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Design Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Digital Design Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.23%) Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Commercial Manager
6 1 (3.23%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.23%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 19 (61.29%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (61.29%) Replication
2 7 (22.58%) FPGA
2 7 (22.58%) VHDL
3 2 (6.45%) Analogue Electronics
3 2 (6.45%) Blockchain
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (61.29%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Agile
2 13 (41.94%) Ticket Management
3 7 (22.58%) Signal Processing
4 6 (19.35%) AI
5 4 (12.90%) Sensor Fusion
6 3 (9.68%) Digital Signal Processing
6 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
7 2 (6.45%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 2 (6.45%) Cryptography
7 2 (6.45%) Incident Management
7 2 (6.45%) Information Security
7 2 (6.45%) KYC
7 2 (6.45%) Machine Learning
7 2 (6.45%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (6.45%) Process Improvement
7 2 (6.45%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (6.45%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (6.45%) SDLC
7 2 (6.45%) Software Delivery
7 2 (6.45%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) C
2 7 (22.58%) C++
3 2 (6.45%) Rust
3 2 (6.45%) Solidity
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.45%) CCSK
2 2 (6.45%) CEH
2 2 (6.45%) CISA
2 2 (6.45%) CISM
2 2 (6.45%) CISSP
2 2 (6.45%) OSCP
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
1 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (61.29%) GPFS
1 19 (61.29%) NFS
2 18 (58.06%) vSphere
3 17 (54.84%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (54.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (12.90%) Firmware
5 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (54.84%) vRealize
2 2 (6.45%) VxRail
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Argo
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) IBM
2 19 (61.29%) Oracle
2 19 (61.29%) ServiceNow
3 18 (58.06%) VMware
4 17 (54.84%) Cisco
5 1 (3.23%) Brocade
5 1 (3.23%) Pure Storage
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk