The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript 2.0 skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActionScript 2.0 over the 3 months to 20 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 City of London 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript 2.0 (AS2)
Rank 199 217 224
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +7
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 2.0 2 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.032% 0.038% 0.124%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.076% 0.106% 0.296%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 9
Average daily rate - £200 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -34.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £256 £325 £250
% change year-on-year
-21.15% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.58 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2636 2838 4058
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.72% 36.34% 41.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2035 2123 3075
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 32 35
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.45% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.81 £15.00 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
ActionScript 2.0
London

ActionScript 2.0
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript 2.0 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London ActionScript 2.0 Jobs Demand Trend

ActionScript 2.0
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ActionScript 2.0 across the City of London region.

City of London ActionScript 2.0 Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript 2.0
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript 2.0 across the City of London region.

City of London ActionScript 2.0 Hourly Rate Trend

ActionScript 2.0
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ActionScript 2.0 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 2.0.

1 8 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) Middleware
2 4 (50.00%) HTML5
3 3 (37.50%) ActionScript 3.0
3 3 (37.50%) PKI
3 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
3 3 (37.50%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
3 3 (37.50%) DataPower
3 3 (37.50%) Twitter
3 3 (37.50%) X.509
3 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) SOAP
3 3 (37.50%) HTTP
3 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (37.50%) B2B
3 3 (37.50%) HTTPS
3 3 (37.50%) AIX
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) OOP
3 3 (37.50%) Flash
3 3 (37.50%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (25.00%) PHP
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) Games

ActionScript 2.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ActionScript 2.0 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 2.0. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) Middleware
1 4 (50.00%) HTML5
2 3 (37.50%) Flash
2 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
2 3 (37.50%) SOAP
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) JSON
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) Symfony
4 1 (12.50%) Django
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) J2EE
4 1 (12.50%) JDBC
4 1 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (37.50%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (12.50%) ExpressionEngine
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) MTS
2 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Endur
1 1 (12.50%) ZaiNet
1 1 (12.50%) Aligne
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTP
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
1 3 (37.50%) HTTPS
1 3 (37.50%) X.509
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (25.00%) Games
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Security Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) Flash Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Middleware Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (37.50%) DataPower
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) Social Media
2 2 (25.00%) New Media
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) AIX
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) OOP
1 3 (37.50%) B2B
1 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) ETRM
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) ActionScript 3.0
4 2 (25.00%) PHP
5 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (12.50%) VB
5 1 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) PowerHouse
5 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Twitter
2 2 (25.00%) Facebook
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Google