The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript
Rank - 53 41
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.161% 0.409%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.410% 1.418%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £277 £275
% change year-on-year
+17.38% +0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- +50.00%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
141 244 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 31.33% 39.23% 28.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 137 87
Average daily rate £325 £301 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% +7.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £442 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £31.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
ActionScript
West Midlands

ActionScript
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Birmingham ActionScript Jobs Demand Trend

ActionScript
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ActionScript across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham ActionScript Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing ActionScript 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited ActionScript.

1 5 (100.00%) Flash
2 4 (80.00%) Games
2 4 (80.00%) Objective-C
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) OOP
2 4 (80.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (20.00%) E-Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Adobe

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing ActionScript also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ActionScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) Flash
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
General
1 4 (80.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Flash Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Flash ActionScript Developer
2 4 (80.00%) ActionScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Developer
3 1 (20.00%) E-Learning Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (20.00%) E-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Objective-C
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) ActionScript 3.0
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe