The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript 3.0 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 69 - 84
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.120% - 0.096%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.424% - 0.276%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £175
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £22.50
All Programming Languages
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
236 266 362
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 28.26% 23.86% 34.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 105 163
Average daily rate £363 £370 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.02% +9.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £226 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £436
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 16
Average hourly rate £16.86 £44.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.68% +114.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.20 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £44.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
ActionScript 3.0
Berkshire

ActionScript 3.0
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading ActionScript 3.0 Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript 3.0
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) Fireworks
1 2 (100.00%) Flash Lite
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (50.00%) STB
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) UML

ActionScript 3.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (100.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) Fireworks
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Flash Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Flash Lite
2 1 (50.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
Reading, Thames Valley
The successful candidate will have experience developing flash applications using AS3 (actionscript 3). You will have experience of working with Adobe Creative Studio including Flash Pro, Photoshop and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013