The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 19 June 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 East Midlands 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript
Rank 79 81 73
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 4 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.313% 0.075% 0.810%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.090% 0.248% 2.810%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
Average daily rate - £225 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -30.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
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
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
367 404 427
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 28.67% 30.24% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 209 192
Average daily rate £300 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £413 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 28
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -38.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £8.50 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £40.00 £48.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
ActionScript
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ActionScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands ActionScript Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands ActionScript Hourly Rate Trend

ActionScript
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActionScript within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Nottinghamshire -2 4 - -
Leicestershire - - - - 1
Northamptonshire - - - -
ActionScript
England

ActionScript
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 6 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) REXX
3 2 (33.33%) MVS
3 2 (33.33%) JCL
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
4 1 (16.67%) AIX
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) SLA

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) QA Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
2 2 (33.33%) MVS
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 2 (33.33%) REXX
2 2 (33.33%) JCL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
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