North West ActionScript Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe ActionScript skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe ActionScript
Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	131
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	30	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	2.471 %	1.087 %
Daily rates quoted	8	0
Average minimum daily rate	£188	-
Average daily rate	£206	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£225	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£247	£260
% change on same period last year	-5.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.50	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£17.50	£10.00
% change on same period last year	+75.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.50	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.29	£31.88
% change on same period last year	-17.53 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1214	1380
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.717 %	1.397 %
Daily rates quoted	235	224
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£314
Average daily rate	£304	£331
% change on same period last year	-8.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	161	158
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.96	£26.02
Average hourly rate	£29.03	£27.53
% change on same period last year	+5.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.09	£29.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.17	£32.72
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
ActionScript England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

ActionScript
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

ActionScript
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ActionScript across the North West region.

ActionScript
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ActionScript across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

ActionScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+5	16	£180	-
Merseyside	+5	7	£250	-
Cheshire	+15	5	-	-

ActionScript England

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 44 (67.69 %) Flash 2 36 (55.38 %) XML 3 28 (43.08 %) JavaScript 4 26 (40.00 %) CSS 5 25 (38.46 %) HTML 6 21 (32.31 %) PHP 7 18 (27.69 %) SQL 8 15 (23.08 %) ASP 9 14 (21.54 %) Photoshop 10 13 (20.00 %) E-Learning 11 12 (18.46 %) Java 11 12 (18.46 %) Animation 12 10 (15.38 %) .NET 12 10 (15.38 %) Lingo 13 9 (13.85 %) SCORM

13 9 (13.85 %) Python 13 9 (13.85 %) XHTML 14 8 (12.31 %) Adobe Illustrator 15 7 (10.77 %) Education 15 7 (10.77 %) Adobe 15 7 (10.77 %) Dreamweaver 15 7 (10.77 %) W3C 15 7 (10.77 %) ASP.NET 16 6 (9.231 %) OO 17 5 (7.692 %) Marketing 17 5 (7.692 %) Graphic Design 18 4 (6.154 %) AJAX 18 4 (6.154 %) MS PowerPoint 18 4 (6.154 %) Government 18 4 (6.154 %) Health

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 36 (55.38 %) XML 2 26 (40.00 %) CSS 3 25 (38.46 %) HTML 4 15 (23.08 %) ASP 5 10 (15.38 %) .NET 6 9 (13.85 %) XHTML 7 7 (10.77 %) ASP.NET 8 4 (6.154 %) AJAX 9 2 (3.077 %) WebServices 9 2 (3.077 %) XSL 10 1 (1.538 %) XSLT 10 1 (1.538 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (1.538 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.077 %) ColdFusion 2 1 (1.538 %) CMS
Applications 1 14 (21.54 %) Photoshop 2 8 (12.31 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 4 (6.154 %) MS PowerPoint 4 3 (4.615 %) InDesign 4 3 (4.615 %) Fireworks 5 1 (1.538 %) Maya	Business Applications 1 2 (3.077 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.538 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (6.154 %) MySQL 2 2 (3.077 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 44 (67.69 %) Flash 2 7 (10.77 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (1.538 %) Visual Studio	General 1 12 (18.46 %) Animation 2 7 (10.77 %) Education 3 5 (7.692 %) Marketing 3 5 (7.692 %) Graphic Design 4 4 (6.154 %) Government 4 4 (6.154 %) Health 5 2 (3.077 %) Games 5 2 (3.077 %) Multimedia 6 1 (1.538 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 45 (69.23 %) Developer 2 18 (27.69 %) Flash Developer 3 16 (24.62 %) ActionScript Developer 4 15 (23.08 %) Web Developer 5 13 (20.00 %) Programmer 6 12 (18.46 %) Web Designer 7 9 (13.85 %) Web Programmer 8 5 (7.692 %) Flash Designer 9 4 (6.154 %) Photoshop Designer 9 4 (6.154 %) E-Learning Developer 10 2 (3.077 %) PHP Developer 11 1 (1.538 %) HTML Developer 11 1 (1.538 %) Graphic Designer 11 1 (1.538 %) .NET Developer 11 1 (1.538 %) VB.NET Developer 11 1 (1.538 %) Senior Developer 11 1 (1.538 %) Senior Flash Developer 11 1 (1.538 %) Animator 11 1 (1.538 %) Flash Programmer 11 1 (1.538 %) Flash Animator	Miscellaneous 1 13 (20.00 %) E-Learning 2 9 (13.85 %) SCORM 3 7 (10.77 %) W3C 4 1 (1.538 %) BBC
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (9.231 %) OO 2 3 (4.615 %) Web Development 2 3 (4.615 %) Digital Marketing 3 2 (3.077 %) OOP 3 2 (3.077 %) Web Design 4 1 (1.538 %) UML 4 1 (1.538 %) OOD 4 1 (1.538 %) B2B 4 1 (1.538 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.538 %) SEO	Programming Languages 1 28 (43.08 %) JavaScript 2 21 (32.31 %) PHP 3 18 (27.69 %) SQL 4 12 (18.46 %) Java 5 10 (15.38 %) Lingo 6 9 (13.85 %) Python 7 1 (1.538 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (1.538 %) Degree	Vendors 1 7 (10.77 %) Adobe 2 1 (1.538 %) Apple