The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript 3.0 skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActionScript 3.0 over the 3 months to 24 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 England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript 3.0 (AS3)
Rank 472 494 364
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -130
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 41 65 217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.099% 0.122% 0.386%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.264% 0.344% 1.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 171
Average daily rate £400 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £213 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £22.50
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
15538 18900 21502
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.37% 35.43% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9795 11399 12698
Average daily rate £400 £383 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 684 872
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
ActionScript 3.0
UK

ActionScript 3.0
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

England ActionScript 3.0 Jobs Demand Trend

ActionScript 3.0
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 across the England region.

England ActionScript 3.0 Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript 3.0
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England ActionScript 3.0 Daily Rate Histogram

ActionScript 3.0
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 across the England region.

England ActionScript 3.0 Hourly Rate Trend

ActionScript 3.0
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
London +36 33 £400 -
Yorkshire +5 4 £293 -
South East +9 3 - -
North West +11 1 - -
ActionScript 3.0
UK

ActionScript 3.0
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ActionScript 3.0 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 3.0.

1 87 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 73 (83.91%) Flash
3 49 (56.32%) JavaScript
4 46 (52.87%) CSS
5 44 (50.57%) HTML
6 40 (45.98%) HTML5
7 28 (32.18%) ActionScript 2.0
8 25 (28.74%) Adobe
9 24 (27.59%) Apache Flex
10 23 (26.44%) OOP
11 22 (25.29%) Games
12 18 (20.69%) Java
12 18 (20.69%) Scrum
13 17 (19.54%) Web Services
14 16 (18.39%) TDD
15 15 (17.24%) Photoshop
16 14 (16.09%) PHP
16 14 (16.09%) OO
17 13 (14.94%) Agile Software Development
18 12 (13.79%) SQL
19 11 (12.64%) XML
20 10 (11.49%) Internet
20 10 (11.49%) Flash Builder
20 10 (11.49%) Android
20 10 (11.49%) Mobile App
21 8 (9.195%) jQuery
21 8 (9.195%) BDD
21 8 (9.195%) Apple iOS
22 7 (8.046%) CSS3
22 7 (8.046%) MySQL

ActionScript 3.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ActionScript 3.0 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 3.0. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 73 (83.91%) Flash
2 46 (52.87%) CSS
3 44 (50.57%) HTML
4 40 (45.98%) HTML5
5 24 (27.59%) Apache Flex
6 17 (19.54%) Web Services
7 11 (12.64%) XML
8 8 (9.195%) jQuery
9 7 (8.046%) CSS3
10 5 (5.747%) Java SE
11 4 (4.598%) Ajax
12 3 (3.448%) RESTful
12 3 (3.448%) Adobe AIR
12 3 (3.448%) Middleware
12 3 (3.448%) JSON
13 2 (2.299%) .NET
13 2 (2.299%) XHTML
13 2 (2.299%) SOAP
13 2 (2.299%) JMS
13 2 (2.299%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 6 (6.897%) CMS
2 2 (2.299%) MODX
2 2 (2.299%) Lightstreamer
3 1 (1.149%) ExpressionEngine
3 1 (1.149%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 15 (17.24%) Photoshop
2 7 (8.046%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (3.448%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (1.149%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.49%) Internet
2 5 (5.747%) Firewall
3 1 (1.149%) NFC
3 1 (1.149%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.046%) MySQL
2 4 (4.598%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Flash Builder
2 5 (5.747%) Subversion
3 4 (4.598%) Maven
3 4 (4.598%) Dreamweaver
3 4 (4.598%) Git (software)
4 3 (3.448%) Selenium
5 2 (2.299%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.299%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.149%) FlexUnit
6 1 (1.149%) Flex Builder
6 1 (1.149%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.149%) GitHub
6 1 (1.149%) Appcelerator Titanium
6 1 (1.149%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.149%) JIRA
6 1 (1.149%) Xcode
General
1 22 (25.29%) Games
2 6 (6.897%) Finance
3 2 (2.299%) Investment Banking
3 2 (2.299%) Banking
3 2 (2.299%) Multimedia
3 2 (2.299%) Marketing
3 2 (2.299%) Front Office
3 2 (2.299%) Advertising
4 1 (1.149%) Publishing
4 1 (1.149%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.149%) Music
Job Titles
1 64 (73.56%) Developer
2 34 (39.08%) Flash Developer
3 13 (14.94%) Flash ActionScript Developer
4 11 (12.64%) ActionScript Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Flex Developer
6 8 (9.195%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.195%) Designer
7 6 (6.897%) Flash Designer
8 4 (4.598%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (4.598%) Flash Programmer
8 4 (4.598%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.598%) Programmer
8 4 (4.598%) Web Developer
9 3 (3.448%) Front-End Developer
10 2 (2.299%) PHP Developer
10 2 (2.299%) PHP MySQL Developer
11 1 (1.149%) Mobile Tester
11 1 (1.149%) Junior Front-End Developer
11 1 (1.149%) Creative Designer
11 1 (1.149%) Interactive Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Mobile App
2 7 (8.046%) RIA
2 7 (8.046%) Graphic Design
3 6 (6.897%) Digital Media
4 5 (5.747%) New Media
4 5 (5.747%) SCORM
4 5 (5.747%) E-Learning
5 4 (4.598%) Interactive TV
5 4 (4.598%) IPTV
6 3 (3.448%) MHEG
6 3 (3.448%) Social Media
7 2 (2.299%) Animation
7 2 (2.299%) Computer Science
7 2 (2.299%) Social Network
7 2 (2.299%) Flash Lite
7 2 (2.299%) Mobile Games
7 2 (2.299%) Handset
7 2 (2.299%) Open Source
7 2 (2.299%) iPhone
7 2 (2.299%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.49%) Android
2 8 (9.195%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.598%) UNIX
4 2 (2.299%) Windows
4 2 (2.299%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.149%) Linux
5 1 (1.149%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (26.44%) OOP
2 18 (20.69%) Scrum
3 16 (18.39%) TDD
4 14 (16.09%) OO
5 13 (14.94%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (9.195%) BDD
7 6 (6.897%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (5.747%) Integration Testing
8 5 (5.747%) OOD
9 4 (4.598%) Software Engineering
9 4 (4.598%) Software Testing
9 4 (4.598%) E-Commerce
9 4 (4.598%) MVC
9 4 (4.598%) Workflow
9 4 (4.598%) Unit Testing
9 4 (4.598%) Mobile Application Development
10 3 (3.448%) Service Delivery
10 3 (3.448%) Content Management
11 2 (2.299%) Web Development
11 2 (2.299%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 87 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 49 (56.32%) JavaScript
3 28 (32.18%) ActionScript 2.0
4 18 (20.69%) Java
5 14 (16.09%) PHP
6 12 (13.79%) SQL
7 6 (6.897%) Objective-C
7 6 (6.897%) Ruby
7 6 (6.897%) C#
8 5 (5.747%) Perl
9 3 (3.448%) C++
10 2 (2.299%) Python
11 1 (1.149%) Scala
11 1 (1.149%) Bash shell
11 1 (1.149%) Groovy
11 1 (1.149%) PowerHouse
11 1 (1.149%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (1.149%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.299%) QA
Vendors
1 25 (28.74%) Adobe
2 5 (5.747%) Twitter
2 5 (5.747%) Google
3 4 (4.598%) Facebook
4 3 (3.448%) OpenTV
5 1 (1.149%) Demandware
5 1 (1.149%) ATG
5 1 (1.149%) Interwoven
5 1 (1.149%) Apple
5 1 (1.149%) IBM
5 1 (1.149%) Zend
5 1 (1.149%) Omniture
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