Flash Contract Job Trends

Adobe Flash
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Flash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 531 532
Rank change year-on-year -120 +1 +74
Contract jobs citing Flash 15 21 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.064% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.25% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 13
10th Percentile £231 £355 £174
25th Percentile £316 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £381 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.13% -25.61% +6.77%
75th Percentile £475 £455 £538
90th Percentile £588 £474 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £381 £513
% change year-on-year +11.48% -25.61% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £54.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £54.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,760 8,570 9,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.62% 25.97% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,717 5,687 6,112
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 190 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.20 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.38 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +10.94%

Flash
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Flash job vacancy trend in the UK

Flash
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Flash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Flash

Flash
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Flash over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Flash in the UK

Flash
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Flash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Flash

Flash
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Flash within the UK over the 6 months to 5 October 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
UK excluding London -106 14 £425 +11.48% 32
England -130 13 £425 +18.06% 49
Midlands -44 7 £438 +21.53% 5
West Midlands -47 5 £450 - 2
North West - 3 £316 -
North of England - 3 £316 - 3
Work from Home -77 2 £428 +12.43% 30
Scotland -14 1 - - 4
East Midlands -14 1 - - 3
East of England -29 1 - - 12
South East -57 1 - - 4
South West - 1 - - 3

Flash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (6.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) VSAN
2 1 (6.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.67%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) SAP BW
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Storage Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Accountant
2 1 (6.67%) Analytics Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Financial Controller
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Perl Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Replication
2 8 (53.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) CPLD
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (6.67%) FPGA
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Ticket Management
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) Validation
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Service Management
5 1 (6.67%) AI
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Data Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (6.67%) Data Validation
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Modelling
5 1 (6.67%) OO
5 1 (6.67%) Project Management
5 1 (6.67%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Perl
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) ACCA
1 3 (20.00%) CIMA
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) DO-160
1 1 (6.67%) DO-254
1 1 (6.67%) IFRS
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) NFS
2 9 (60.00%) GPFS
3 6 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (40.00%) vSphere
4 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) vRealize
2 4 (26.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) IBM
2 9 (60.00%) Oracle
3 8 (53.33%) ServiceNow
4 6 (40.00%) Cisco
4 6 (40.00%) VMware
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.67%) Ariba
6 1 (6.67%) SAP