The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 79 56 62
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +6
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.317% 0.129% 0.141%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.510% 0.365% 0.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £225 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £278 £300
% change year-on-year
+17.11% -7.50%
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
588 274 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 62.16% 35.45% 44.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 132 202
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £225 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £393 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
Average hourly rate £12.18 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.11% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.86 £11.00 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.23 £20.00 £94.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
ActionScript
Scotland

ActionScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow ActionScript Hourly Rate Trend

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) Flash
3 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) E-Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (50.00%) SCORM
3 2 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Flex
4 1 (25.00%) Sencha
4 1 (25.00%) Sencha Touch
4 1 (25.00%) Parsley
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) InDesign
4 1 (25.00%) KDB
4 1 (25.00%) Ext JS
4 1 (25.00%) Aptana Studio
4 1 (25.00%) Apache CXF
4 1 (25.00%) Cairngorm
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) JSP
4 1 (25.00%) SEO

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Flash
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Flex
4 1 (25.00%) Sencha Touch
4 1 (25.00%) Parsley
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) Ext JS
4 1 (25.00%) Apache CXF
4 1 (25.00%) Cairngorm
4 1 (25.00%) JSP
4 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (25.00%) DHTML
4 1 (25.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (25.00%) InDesign
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) KDB
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Aptana Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (25.00%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) E-Learning Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Flex Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) E-Learning
1 2 (50.00%) SCORM
2 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OOP
1 3 (75.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (25.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Sencha
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe