ActionScript Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript 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 over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript
Rank 432 396 252
Rank change year-on-year
-36 -144
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 86 168 390
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.207% 0.315% 0.683%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.553% 0.887% 1.783%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 90 272
Average daily rate £370 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.40% -10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £211 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £278 £300
% change year-on-year
+17.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 5
Average hourly rate £32.58 £30.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.60% +50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- +50.00%
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 15538 18950 21870
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.42% 35.49% 38.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9802 11431 12902
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £251
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 563 687 886
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.70 £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
UK

ActionScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England ActionScript Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ActionScript across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England ActionScript Daily Rate Histogram

ActionScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +12 61 £400 +14.28%
Yorkshire +6 10 £310 +45.88%
South East +4 9 £188 -30.23%
East Midlands -1 3 £363 +45.00%
North West -3 3 £350 -
South West +24 2 £375 +87.50%
ActionScript
UK

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 135 (68.53%) Flash
2 88 (44.67%) JavaScript
2 88 (44.67%) ActionScript 3.0
3 87 (44.16%) CSS
4 74 (37.56%) HTML
5 66 (33.50%) HTML5
6 63 (31.98%) ActionScript 2.0
7 47 (23.86%) Java
8 44 (22.34%) Adobe
9 42 (21.32%) XML
10 37 (18.78%) Apache Flex
11 36 (18.27%) TDD
11 36 (18.27%) OO
12 33 (16.75%) Games
13 31 (15.74%) Web Services
13 31 (15.74%) Photoshop
14 30 (15.23%) Scrum
15 29 (14.72%) Agile Software Development
15 29 (14.72%) OOP
16 26 (13.20%) SQL
17 24 (12.18%) PHP
18 22 (11.17%) Internet
18 22 (11.17%) jQuery
19 20 (10.15%) MySQL
20 17 (8.629%) BDD
20 17 (8.629%) Mobile App
20 17 (8.629%) Subversion
20 17 (8.629%) MVC
20 17 (8.629%) C#
21 16 (8.122%) C++

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
1 135 (68.53%) Flash
2 87 (44.16%) CSS
3 74 (37.56%) HTML
4 66 (33.50%) HTML5
5 42 (21.32%) XML
6 37 (18.78%) Apache Flex
7 31 (15.74%) Web Services
8 22 (11.17%) jQuery
9 16 (8.122%) CSS3
10 13 (6.599%) XHTML
10 13 (6.599%) .NET
11 12 (6.091%) JMS
12 11 (5.584%) Middleware
13 10 (5.076%) JSP
14 9 (4.569%) DHTML
14 9 (4.569%) Spring
14 9 (4.569%) Silverlight
15 8 (4.061%) SOAP
16 7 (3.553%) XSLT
17 6 (3.046%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 9 (4.569%) CMS
2 5 (2.538%) ColdFusion
2 5 (2.538%) GlassFish
3 4 (2.030%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 4 (2.030%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (1.523%) MTS
4 3 (1.523%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.015%) WordPress
5 2 (1.015%) Lightstreamer
5 2 (1.015%) MODX
6 1 (0.508%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.508%) Commerce Server
6 1 (0.508%) TYPO3
6 1 (0.508%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.508%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.508%) Adobe CQ
6 1 (0.508%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.508%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.508%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (0.508%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 31 (15.74%) Photoshop
2 16 (8.122%) Adobe Illustrator
3 9 (4.569%) MS Office
4 4 (2.030%) Fireworks
5 2 (1.015%) OmniGraffle
5 2 (1.015%) InDesign
5 2 (1.015%) MS Excel
6 1 (0.508%) Maya
6 1 (0.508%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.508%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.508%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 3 (1.523%) Endur
1 3 (1.523%) ZaiNet
1 3 (1.523%) Aligne
2 2 (1.015%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.17%) Internet
2 9 (4.569%) HTTPS
3 6 (3.046%) Firewall
3 6 (3.046%) FTP
3 6 (3.046%) HTTP
4 4 (2.030%) X.509
4 4 (2.030%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.508%) Intranet
5 1 (0.508%) SSH
5 1 (0.508%) AMQP
5 1 (0.508%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.15%) MySQL
2 8 (4.061%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (2.538%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.030%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (2.030%) CouchDB
4 4 (2.030%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (2.030%) SQL Server 2000
4 4 (2.030%) OLAP
5 3 (1.523%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (1.015%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.508%) DB2
7 1 (0.508%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.508%) GIS
7 1 (0.508%) QlikView
7 1 (0.508%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (8.629%) Subversion
2 10 (5.076%) Flash Builder
2 10 (5.076%) Maven
2 10 (5.076%) Dreamweaver
3 6 (3.046%) Git (software)
3 6 (3.046%) JIRA
4 5 (2.538%) JUnit
4 5 (2.538%) IntelliJ
4 5 (2.538%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.538%) EasyMock
4 5 (2.538%) Mockito
5 4 (2.030%) MTASC
5 4 (2.030%) FlexUnit
5 4 (2.030%) GitHub
5 4 (2.030%) Selenium
6 3 (1.523%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.015%) Axure RP
7 2 (1.015%) Hudson
7 2 (1.015%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.015%) Xcode
General
1 33 (16.75%) Games
2 14 (7.107%) Finance
3 11 (5.584%) Marketing
4 10 (5.076%) Banking
5 8 (4.061%) Multimedia
6 6 (3.046%) Retail
7 5 (2.538%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.523%) Advertising
8 3 (1.523%) Publishing
8 3 (1.523%) Music
9 2 (1.015%) Front Office
10 1 (0.508%) Electronics
10 1 (0.508%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.508%) German Language
10 1 (0.508%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.508%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 126 (63.96%) Developer
2 47 (23.86%) Flash Developer
3 19 (9.645%) Web Developer
3 19 (9.645%) ActionScript Developer
3 19 (9.645%) Designer
3 19 (9.645%) Flash ActionScript Developer
4 10 (5.076%) Programmer
5 9 (4.569%) Software Engineer
5 9 (4.569%) Java Developer
5 9 (4.569%) Flex Developer
6 8 (4.061%) Front-End Developer
6 8 (4.061%) Analyst
7 7 (3.553%) Consultant
8 6 (3.046%) UI Developer
8 6 (3.046%) UI Programmer
8 6 (3.046%) Flash Designer
8 6 (3.046%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.538%) Architect
9 5 (2.538%) Java Programmer
10 4 (2.030%) User Experience Designer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.629%) Mobile App
2 15 (7.614%) Digital Media
3 14 (7.107%) Graphic Design
4 12 (6.091%) E-Learning
5 11 (5.584%) RIA
6 10 (5.076%) New Media
7 8 (4.061%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (4.061%) SCORM
8 6 (3.046%) Interactive TV
9 5 (2.538%) W3C
9 5 (2.538%) Online Games
10 4 (2.030%) DataPower
10 4 (2.030%) Open Source
10 4 (2.030%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (2.030%) PKI
10 4 (2.030%) IPTV
10 4 (2.030%) Web 2.0
10 4 (2.030%) Flash Lite
10 4 (2.030%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.030%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.107%) Apple iOS
2 10 (5.076%) Android
3 9 (4.569%) UNIX
4 8 (4.061%) Linux
5 6 (3.046%) AIX
6 3 (1.523%) Windows
7 2 (1.015%) Windows 8
7 2 (1.015%) MVS
8 1 (0.508%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (18.27%) TDD
1 36 (18.27%) OO
2 30 (15.23%) Scrum
3 29 (14.72%) Agile Software Development
3 29 (14.72%) OOP
4 17 (8.629%) BDD
4 17 (8.629%) MVC
5 14 (7.107%) E-Commerce
6 13 (6.599%) Web Development
6 13 (6.599%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (5.584%) Mobile Application Development
8 9 (4.569%) OOD
8 9 (4.569%) Content Management
8 9 (4.569%) Unit Testing
9 8 (4.061%) Workflow
10 7 (3.553%) SOA
10 7 (3.553%) Risk Management
10 7 (3.553%) Software Testing
10 7 (3.553%) Data Protection
11 6 (3.046%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (44.67%) JavaScript
1 88 (44.67%) ActionScript 3.0
2 63 (31.98%) ActionScript 2.0
3 47 (23.86%) Java
4 26 (13.20%) SQL
5 24 (12.18%) PHP
6 17 (8.629%) C#
7 16 (8.122%) C++
8 12 (6.091%) Ruby
8 12 (6.091%) Objective-C
9 8 (4.061%) Perl
10 4 (2.030%) Python
10 4 (2.030%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.030%) VB
11 3 (1.523%) C
11 3 (1.523%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.015%) PHP5
12 2 (1.015%) Scala
12 2 (1.015%) JCL
12 2 (1.015%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (4.569%) Degree
2 3 (1.523%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.508%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.508%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.538%) QA
2 1 (0.508%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.508%) Xen
Vendors
1 44 (22.34%) Adobe
2 14 (7.107%) Oracle
3 7 (3.553%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.046%) Twitter
4 6 (3.046%) Google
5 5 (2.538%) Facebook
6 3 (1.523%) OpenTV
7 2 (1.015%) Omniture
7 2 (1.015%) SAP
8 1 (0.508%) IBM
8 1 (0.508%) Apple
8 1 (0.508%) Interwoven
8 1 (0.508%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.508%) ATG
8 1 (0.508%) Zend
8 1 (0.508%) Demandware
8 1 (0.508%) SEEBURGER
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